GUI Create scaling group

Field	Description
Name	Name of the scaling group
Default cooldown	Period of time to wait from the start of one scaling operation before allowing another scaling operation
Minimum running virtual machines	The minimum running VMs that Abiquo must maintain in the scaling group. The value must be greater than or equal to zero, where zero means that the base machine is not deployed
Maximum running virtual machines	The maximum running VMs that Abiquo must maintain in the scaling group
Keep virtual machines in the same layer	Select this option to maintain VM anti-affinity layers when autoscaling
Disable workflow	Administrators with the privilege to Manage workflow for scaling groups can use this option to disable workflow or enable it as required.
Create in maintenance mode	Select this option to create the scaling group with maintenance mode ON, for example, to delay the automatic deployment of VMs to meet the minimum size
Create autoscaling action	Create basic operations to scale in and scale out, with triggers based on metrics and alarm conditions.
Scaling rules	Scaling rules describe how Abiquo will behave when a scaling event is triggered, for example, by an alert or a schedule.

Scaling rules

Field	Description
VMs	For a scale out rule, the number of times to clone the base machine and deploy each clone for each scaling step. For a scale in rule, the number of machines to remove from the scaling group (Abiquo will delete clone machines and undeploy the base machine)
Cooldown	The cooldown time to wait between scaling operations under this rule
Start	Date and time to start the time range when scaling triggers will start a scaling operation under this rule. The time range must be unique and cannot overlap with other rules with the same scaling direction. If there is no time range, then this is a default scaling rule.
End	Date and time that is the end of the time range when scaling triggers will start a scaling operation. The time range must be unique and cannot overlap with other rules with the same scaling direction. If there is no time range, then this is a default scaling rule