Scale Up an Appliance

Scale up an appliance by adding more hardware configurations.

1. Launch NavOps.
   The list of appliances is displayed.

   
   
   Figure 1. Appliances

   The list displays the Appliance Name, Model Name that is selected for this appliance, Cloud Provider of the appliance, Appliance State, Nodes Count and Uptime (number of days the appliance is up and running).

   Note: Click to change the column list that is displayed.
2. Click the appliance name from the Appliances list.
   The Cloud tab displays the appliance details. Additionally, you can view the owner name and number of Altair units checked out in the bottom-left corner. You can also, set an end date for the appliance using Edit.

   
   
   Figure 2. Appliance Details

   The Nodes table displays the node type, instance type, node name, node status, CPU, GPU and RAM. Review this table information before you scale up.

3. Click Scale in the left pane.
   Scale UP is selected by default and the number of deployed nodes is displayed.

   
   
   Figure 3. Scale UP

4. Click to configure the cluster.

   The list of instance types available in the cloud for the selected application is displayed. Select the required instance.

   
   
   Figure 4. Select Instance Type to Scale UP the Graphical Category

   The selected instance is added.

   
   
   Figure 5. Selected Instance

5. Optional: Repeat the previous step to add more instances to the other clusters.
6. Click Deploy to scale up the appliance.
   A confirmation message to deploy the selected instance is displayed.

   
   
   Figure 6. Deploy

7. Click Yes.
   The added instances will be deployed.

   The Activity tab displays the progress of the deployment.

   The Cloud tab displays the status of the deployment.

   
   
   Figure 7. Cloud Tab displaying the deployment status

   Once the additional instance is deployed, the nodes list is updated.

   
   
   Figure 8. Additional Node is UP