On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Ram Ganesh <ram.gan...@citrix.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chip Childers [mailto:chip.child...@sungard.com] >> Sent: 03 July 2013 19:58 >> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org; fgaudrea...@cloudops.com >> Subject: Re: Auto-scaling won't scale down >> >> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 10:14:38AM -0400, Francois Gaudreault wrote: >> > I am not sure if this is an expected behavior or not. Apparently, if >> > the VR is not setup, and you create the autoscale rules, nothing will >> > happen until you spin at least one vm in the network. >> >> The reason makes sense technically, since you have 0 usage for the >> environment at that point. Until there is actual usage, it will never >> trigger a >> threshold that would cause a scaling event. >> >> Looking at this from a user's perspective, I actually don't see an issue with >> this implementation. Does anyone know how AWS reacts in this scenario? > > Chip, > > One can configure minMembers while defining an autoscale rule in which case > CS will provision minMember of guestVMs even when there is no traffic. It > should be true in case of AWS also. > > Thanks, > RamG > >
Sounds like a valid bug then, based on Francois not seeing it behave this way. ;-)