Starting host factory for cloud bursting

After you specify the cloud provider configuration and the policy configuration for your cluster, start the HostFactory service.

About this task

The HostFactory service handles all resource scale-out and scale-in requests in your cluster. You can control this service configuration by using the hostfactoryconf.json file and the hostfactory.xml service profile.
  • For fine-grained tuning of HostFactory service parameters, use the hostfactoryconf.json file. See hostfactoryconf.json reference.
  • For host factory environment variables that are set during service startup, use the hostfactory.xml service profile. For more information, see Environment variables.

You can start the HostFactory service either from the cluster management console or from the command line by using the egosh service start HostFactory command (see service).

Procedure

Follow these steps to start HostFactory from the cluster management console:

  1. Set the HostFactory service to start automatically:
    1. From the cluster management console, select System & Services > EGO Services > Service Profiles.
    2. Click HostFactory to edit the service profile.
    3. In the sc:ServiceDefinition > sc:ControlPolicy > sc:StartType section, click to change MANUAL to AUTOMATIC.
    4. Click Save.
  2. Start the HostFactory service:
    1. Go to System & Services > EGO Services > Services.
    2. Locate the HostFactory service; then, from the Actions list, click Start.
    3. Click OK to confirm.

What to do next

Submit workload for cloud-enabled applications. See Submitting workload for cloud-enabled applications.