Compute Engine / IaaS
All it takes to add resources to your server in the Compute Engine
is operating a slider. The Data Center Designers (DCD) graphic interface lets you increase cores and RAM in very small increments.
This is possible because you are working inside a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). The capacities for your virtual data center are sourced from within the physical data center’s hardware pool. This means that we can deploy new capacities in real time (software-controlled), whenever you need them. This procedure allows vertical scaling on the fly, i.e. adding new CPU cores and more RAM. You can add up to 62 cores and 240 GB of RAM (AMD CPUs) for each VM, or 27 cores and 120 GB RAM for Intel CPUs.
Managing your virtual data center does not require use of the Data Center Designers (DCD). Thanks to our Cloud-REST-API, you can access the entire configuration even without the graphical user interface. For instance, you can write scripts to automate your scaling, e.g. throttle the system performance at night to release unneeded capacities. An effective way to save money! In our DevOps community, you will find a large number of microservices that let you automate your infrastructure just the way you need it.