https://github.com/infobloxopen/vmware-autoscale

Script to automatically scale up or down the Infoblox grid, hosted on a VMWare environmen,t based on DNS queries per second
https://github.com/infobloxopen/vmware-autoscale

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Script to automatically scale up or down the Infoblox grid, hosted on a VMWare environmen,t based on DNS queries per second

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/infobloxopen/vmware-autoscale
• Owner: infobloxopen
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2018-10-13T20:53:02.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-11-19T10:28:39.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-11T19:00:56.788Z (8 months ago)
• Language: PowerShell
• Size: 26.4 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# vmware-autoscale

This repository contains a Powershell script to automatically scale up or down the Infoblox grid, hosted on a VMWare environment based on DNS queries per second.

## Prerequisites

Ensure you have the following components in your environment:

 - Windows Powershell

 -  Powershell SNMP module

 - VMWare PowerCLI module for Powershell

 - ovftool

 - Connectivity to both, the vCenter Server and Infoblox Grid

Ensure the following configurations are enabled on the Infoblox grid

 - SNMP configuration

 - A reserved range defined within a subnet, from which IP addresses can be automatically assigned to the scaled-up members

Ensure that you modify the variables above which the comment "NEEDS TO BE MODIFIED WITH VALUES SPECIFIC TO YOUR ENVIRONMENT" is added, such as:

 - $vmfolder: Location in the vCenter Server where the new Virtual Machine needs to be created

 - $datastore: The datastore the VM will reside on. You can run Get-Datastore command to get a list of all the datastores in your environment

 - $dportgroup: The Distributed port group that the VM will be connected to. You can run Get-VDPortgroup to get a list of all the distirbuted port groups in your environment

 - $range: The range within which the next available IP address can be found to assign to a new member

 - $memberip: The gateway and subnet mask need to be changed

 - $gridjoindetails: This is the details of the existing grid that the new member needs to join

 - $nsname: The nameserver group that the new member will be added to.

## Inputs to be given to the script

 - The IP address of the grid master

 - The username and password that can be used to make WAPI calls to the grid master.

 - The IP address of the grid member whose DNS QPS you want to monitor

 - The SNMP community string that the script can use to get the data from the grid

 - The polling interval, that is the time interval at which the QPS is monitored

 - The scale-up limit, that is the threshold after which a new member will be spun up

 - The time interval during which the QPS is additionally monitored after the scale-up limit has reached, in order to ensure that this was not just a momentary spike.

 - The maximum number of members that can be automatically created while scaling up, beyond which even if the scale-up threshold is crossed, new members won't be spun up.

 - The scale-down limit, that is the threshold below which the most recently scaled up member will be deleted

 - The time interval during which the QPS in additionally monitored after the scale-down limit has reached, in order to ensure that this was not a momentary slow down.

 - The OVA file based off of which a new member will be spun up (any non-DDI image)

 - The vCenter Server IP address or FQDN

 - The username and password to access the vCenter Server

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