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.  ;-)

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