Prepare cloud bursting

Cloud bursting is automatically deploying new resources in any part of your hybrid cloud environment to meet a peak in demand for resources. To prepare cloud bursting, create an application with metrics and create a matching application in another provider with an action plan that will scale when triggered by VM metrics or on schedule.

To configure cloud bursting do these steps:

1. Create your application: deploy VMs with monitoring of critical values
2. Create a matching appliance in another cloud. Deploy VMs with replication and use minimal hardware profiles

3. Create alarms for your critical values ofVM metrics, scaling group metrics, or custom metrics (see Custom Metrics Resources)

   1. Go to Virtual datacenters → Alarms (see Manage cloud alarms)

   2. Select an Entity (your VM or scaling group), a Metric, and a Metric statistic and enter a Threshold, then save the alarm

   We recommend that you create alarms for when you will require more resources (the high threshold), and for when these resources can be retired (the low threshold).
4. Create alerts to notify users and to trigger scaling
   1. Go to Control → Alerts (see Manage Alerts)
5. Create action plans for automation
   1. Go to Control → Action plans (see Manage Action Plans) 
   2. Select a VM or scaling group
   3. Create Actions, for example, increase the hardware profile of a VM, or use scaling actions to add more VMs for your application.
   4. Add an Alert to trigger the action plan or create a Schedule to run it. If you use a schedule, the alarms and alerts are optional but recommended because they can help you control your cloud resources.