Manually scaling virtual application instances

Virtual machines run computing workloads in the virtual application instance. To maximize the workload in your IBM® Business Process Manager Application Pattern virtual application instances, you can manually scale the virtual machines in the instance.

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You can manually scale an IBM BPM Application Pattern virtual application instance either horizontally or vertically. To scale horizontally, you can add or remove custom nodes. You can scale vertically by increasing or decreasing processor usage or memory on the virtual machines in your virtual application instance.