As you may know, Smart Scale has been discontinued as of 31/05/2019. But – fear not, a community project now provides the same functionality. This project is the brainchild of Leee Jeffries (twitter/blog – well worth a follow/read for anyone working in the EUC space by the way!), and provides a simple to use solution, that provides a great replacement method that can save VM cost in Cloud Environments, with an on-premises control place.
PowerScale can carry out the following actions on VDAs:
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Scheduled Machine Management
- Working Hour Schedule
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Outside Working Hours Schedule
- Power On Machines
- Power Off Machines
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Scale Machines based on performance metrics
- CPU
- Memory
- Load Index
- Session Limits
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User Logoff
- Forced User Logoff
- Two Message sent to users at specified intervals before shutdown
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Graceful User Logoff
- Wait for sessions to drain before shutdowns complete
- Email on critical error
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Testing only mode
- Logfile generated on every run
- No farm actions performed during test mode
You can download PowerScale here, and an installation guide is also available here.