Autoscaling Server Arrays

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Best Practices in the Cloud: Auto Scaling

October 30, 2008

Watch the video of this webinar


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Your Panel Today• Michael Crandell - CEO• Josh Fraser – VP, Business

Development• Martin Rhoads – Sr. Integration

Engineer• Eugene Gimelberg – Sr. Software

Engineer


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Welcome to RightScale Auto Scaling Demonstration Q&A – Getting Started

Please use chat to ask questions anytime!

Agenda


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• On-demand• Pay-as-you-go• Virtual infinite• Surpasses traditional hosting

– Multiple server sizes: ½ core to 8 cores– Reassign IPs / VIPs– Multiple failure zones and geographies– Disk Volumes– Cloud interoperability

Cloud Computing


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AUTOMATEDMANAGEMENTAUTOMATED

MANAGEMENTCOMPONENT

LIBRARIESCOMPONENT

LIBRARIESEXPERTISE

& SUPPORTEXPERTISE

& SUPPORT

EXPERTISE

RIGHTSCRIPTS

MYSQL MGR

WEB SITE

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Cloud ApplicationsCloud Applications

AmazonAmazon FlexiScaleFlexiScale RackspaceRackspace GoGridGoGrid Other CloudsOther Clouds

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• Agile = automate and benefit!– From boot to production on auto-pilot– Across different stacks & different

clouds– Auto-failover, auto-restart, auto-scale

“Deploy faster, better, and cheaper than your competitors”

Agile Deployment


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Auto Scaling• Rules-based system• More than just launching an instance

– Complete system architecture– Auto configuration into cohesive resilient cluster– Support for workflow and lifecycle management

• Addressing multiple business cases– Load: Highly elastic web applications (e.g., Facebook app)– Schedule: Event-based content sites– Queue: Size and time in queue for batch processing needs


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Sample Deployment

• 4-servers– 2x load balancer/app

servers– 2x master/slave database


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Scale-Out the App

• 2x front-ends w/Elastic IPs

• 2+N app servers


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Configuring Auto Scaling

1. Create a Server Array2. Create Escalations3. Create Alerts4. Connect Alerts and Escalations to

FrontEnds5. Connect Alerts and Escalations to the

Array ServerTemplate


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Demonstration


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in 3.5 days80 to 3500 servers


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Q&A - Getting Started

Thank you for listening!


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RightScale Ecosystem

Customers Software Vendors

Pre-packaged componentsExpertise & best practices

Cloud roadmap & portabilityCustomer acquisition

RightScale Platform

Cloud Providers

State-of-the-art management systemAccess to customers & ISV content


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Back-end Processing

Autoscaling Server Arrays

Technology

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