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Scale Up or Scale Down By Using Reconfigure
After you provision a vSphere, vCloud Air, or vCloud Director virtual or cloud machine you can adjust to
changing workload demands by requesting a machine recongure to increase (scale up) or decrease (scale
down) machine resource specications for CPU, memory, storage, or networks. You can also add, edit, or
remove custom properties and change descriptions. You can request to recongure machines that are in the
On or O state.
When you recongure a virtual or cloud machine for scale up, vRealize Automation allocates the requested
resources on the current reservation before proceeding. If the resources are not available, the machine
recongure fails. If a machine recongure request fails, any resources allocated for scale up are deallocated
and available for new requests. When you recongure a virtual or cloud machine for scale down, resources
are not made available to new requests unless the recongure nishes successfully.
Table 10. Required Entitlements for Machine Reconfigure Scenarios ( vSphere , vCloud Air , and
vCloud Director only)
Virtual or Cloud Machine Owner wants to... Required Entitlements
Run the recongure immediately after any required
approvals are given.
Recongure
Specify a date and time to run the reconguration. Recongure
Reschedule a recongure because the request was not
approved until after the scheduled time.
Recongure
Retry a failed recongure request. Execute recongure
Cancel a failed recongure request. Cancel recongure
Cancel a scheduled recongure request. Cancel recongure
XaaS Blueprints and Resource Actions
XaaS architects can use the XaaS options to create blueprints and publish them to the service catalog. They
can also create and publish post-provisioning operations that the consumers can perform on provisioned
items.
Creating XaaS Blueprints and Actions
By using the XaaS blueprints and resource actions, you dene new provisioning, request, or action oerings
and publish them to the common catalog as catalog items.
You can create XaaS blueprints and actions for either requesting or provisioning. The XaaS blueprints for
requesting do not provision items and provide no options for post-provisioning operations. Examples of
XaaS blueprints for requesting include blueprints for sending emails, generating reports, performing
complex calculations, and so on. For an XaaS blueprint, the result is a provisioned item. You can create a
custom resource so that you can access and manage the items on the Items tab.
To dene the XaaS specication, you create a blueprint and publish it as a catalog item. After you publish a
catalog item, you must include it in a service category. You can use an existing service or create one. A
tenant administrator or business group manager can entitle the whole service or only the catalog item to
specic users.
If you created a custom resource for a provisioned item, you can create resource actions to dene the post-
provisioning operations that the consumers can perform. You can also create resource actions for an item
that is provisioned by a source dierent from the XaaS blueprints, for example by IaaS. For this purpose,
rst you must create a resource mapping to dene the type of the catalog item.
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