The document discusses best practices for auto-scaling in cloud computing, led by experts from RightScale. It emphasizes the importance of agile deployment, automated management, and the ability to scale resources dynamically based on demand. The webinar includes a demonstration and a Q&A session, encouraging attendees to engage and leverage RightScale's offerings for cloud solutions.

1. Best Practices in the Cloud: Auto Scaling October 30, 2008 Watch the video of this webinar

2. Your Panel Today Michael Crandell - CEO Josh Fraser – VP, Business Development Martin Rhoads – Sr. Integration Engineer Eugene Gimelberg – Sr. Software Engineer

3. Agenda Welcome to RightScale Auto Scaling Demonstration Q&A – Getting Started Please use chat to ask questions anytime!

4. 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

5. Cloud Management Platform AUTOMATED MANAGEMENT COMPONENT LIBRARIES EXPERTISE & SUPPORT Cloud Applications Amazon FlexiScale Rackspace GoGrid Other Clouds RightScale EXPERTISE RIGHTSCRIPTS MYSQL MGR WEB SITE GRID

6. 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

7. 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

8. Sample Deployment 4-servers 2x load balancer/app servers 2x master/slave database

9. Scale-Out the App 2x front-ends w/Elastic IPs 2+N app servers

10. Configuring Auto Scaling Create a Server Array Create Escalations Create Alerts Connect Alerts and Escalations to FrontEnds Connect Alerts and Escalations to the Array ServerTemplate

11. Demonstration

12. PHOTOS + MUSIC = VIDEO ~8 cpu minutes for each video

13. in 3.5 days 80 to 3500 servers

14. Q&A - Getting Started Contact a RightScale representative for a live demonstration or to request presentation slides at: [email_address] (866) 720 – 0208 $500 off RightScale Premium Editions through 11/15 Sign up for a free developer account at: RightScale.com/FreeTrial Follow one of our Tutorials Wiki.RightScale.com Thank you for listening!

15. RightScale Ecosystem Customers Software Vendors Pre-packaged components Expertise & best practices Cloud roadmap & portability Customer acquisition RightScale Platform Cloud Providers State-of-the-art management system Access to customers & ISV content

16. Back-end Processing