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Nil Pun
Nil Pun

Reputation: 17373

Azure autoscale preview how it works

I saw a "auto scale preview" on my management portal. When I clicked on it it says: "You need to configure the autoscale service."

I tried to look up on MSDN and could not find anything helpful but detail EntLib.

Could someone please clarify how this feature works ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2645

Answers (1)

Stephen Siciliano
Stephen Siciliano

Reputation: 181

The Autoscale functionality in the Azure portal is a UI-only feature at this time. If you want to configure Autoscale via API, I'd recommend WASABi.

ScottGu has a blog post here about this: ScottGu's Blog

When you click on the link to "Configure Autoscale" from the Dashboard in the management portal, it takes you to the Scale tab for the service you want to scale (be that your Cloud Service, Web site etc...).

On the Scale tab, there is a list of components inside your service. For Cloud Services, for example, it's a list of all of the roles. You can turn on autoscale for any one of these items by selecting CPU or Queue from the Autoscale switch (see this screenshot)

Once you've chosen the metric, you define the range that autoscale operates over. At the above link, Azure would autoscale between 1 and 5 instances. When CPU drops below the target range, an instance will be removed, and when it exceeds the target range an instance would be added.

Upvotes: 2

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