US 2013/0297802 A1 · SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE APPLICATION PROVISIONING

Abstract

The present application is directed towards systems and methods for adaptive application provisioning for cloud services. An appliance deployed in a network as a gateway may be able to transparently monitor application activity in a cloud computing environment provided by one or more servers, including servers executed by virtual machines, bare-metal or non-virtual servers, or other computing devices. In some embodiments, the appliance may monitor one or more network metrics, including bandwidth usage, latency, congestion, or other issues; and/or may monitor application health or server or virtual machine statistics, including memory and processor usage, bandwidth usage, latency, or other metrics. Responsive to one or more metrics exceeding a threshold, the appliance may automatically provision or start, or deprovision or shut down, one or more virtual or physical machines from a cloud service provider, and may provide configuration information to the provisioned or started machines as needed.

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Dependent claims

A method for automatically scaling a number of instances of an application provisioned via a cloud service provider, the method comprising:

(a) identifying, by a device intermediary to a plurality of a clients and a cloud service provider executing a plurality of instances of an application provisioned by the device via the cloud service provider, one or more policies for scaling a number of instances of the application via the cloud service provider, the policy identifying one or more metrics and a threshold for each of the one or more metrics;
(b) monitoring, by the device, each of the one or more metrics for the plurality of instances of the application executing via the cloud service provider;
(c) determining, by the device, that each metric of the one or more metrics exceeds each metric's threshold identified by the policy;
and
(d) transmitting, by the device automatically responsive to the determination, a request to the cloud service provider to one of provision or deprovision one or more instances of the application via the cloud service provider in accordance with the policy.

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Systems and methods for adaptive application provisioning

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