Hi guys, At CCCEU13 I talked about the AutoScale without NetScaler feature working with XenServer & XCP. For anyone don’t know about this feature, take a look into my slide here: http://www.slideshare.net/tuna20073882/autoscale-without-netscalerccceu13.
Chiradeep and I had a short talk after the presentation about how to improve the AutoScale feature in future. We agreed that: + Need to remove Load Balancing feature from AutoScaling. That’s very simple to do. + Need to use SNMP for monitoring not only instance-level but also application-level. + Also, supporting well KVM hypervisor So, I blow up this thread for all of you guys to discuss the way we design that feature, such as: + technical side, how to integrate effectively SNMP into CLoudStack. Where do we put SNMP monitor components into infrastructure? etc + user experience, how user configure that feature with SNMP monitoring. I image that user can figure out they need AutoScale for which of following items: application, protocol (tcp, udp), port, bandwidth, disk, cpu and memory also, etc + How about autoscale action, not just only deploy or destroy VM, we need maybe dynamically increase-decrease memory/cpu, nic bandwidth, disk,… Personally, we should think about a completely autoscaling feature. Cheers, —Tuna
