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# How-Tos

IONOS CLOUD VM Auto Scaling: how-to guides for creating, modifying, and managing auto scaling groups using the DCD

You can configure VM Auto Scaling via [<mark style="color:blue;">Data Center Designer (DCD)</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/general-information/glossary-of-terms#data-center-designer-dcd). This feature combines granular configurable options wherein you can create a group and define when the feature must scale in or scale out based on demand. You must also specify the minimum (for scale out) and the maximum (for scale in) number of replicas a group can contain for the replicas to stay within the given threshold.

Configure replicas after configuring thresholds and policies, where you define the settings, network, and storage volumes for the replicas created by the feature. After you define the network, you may add an [<mark style="color:blue;">Application Load Balancer (ALB)</mark>](https://docs.ionos.com/cloud/support/general-information/glossary-of-terms#application-load-balancer-alb) to the group.

After successfully creating a group, you can modify its details, delete it, and view its associated servers and list of jobs.

## Quick Links

The following links redirect you to the relevant pages.

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Configure a VM Auto Scaling Group</strong></mark></td><td>Configure a VM Auto Scaling group and define group-wide policies for scaling.</td><td><a href="/cloud/network-services/vm-auto-scaling/how-tos/configure-vm-auto-scaling-group.md">Configure a VM Auto Scaling Group</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Configure replicas</strong></mark></td><td>Configure storage size, networks, and storage volumes for the VM instances.</td><td><a href="/cloud/network-services/vm-auto-scaling/how-tos/configure-vm-auto-scaling-replicas.md">Configure Replicas</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Modify a VM Auto Scaling Group</strong></mark></td><td>Modify the group name and scaling policies.</td><td><a href="/cloud/network-services/vm-auto-scaling/how-tos/modify-vm-auto-scaling-group.md">Modify a VM Auto Scaling Group</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Delete a VM Auto Scaling Group</strong></mark></td><td>Delete an existing VM Auto Scaling group.</td><td><a href="/cloud/network-services/vm-auto-scaling/how-tos/delete-vm-auto-scaling-group.md">Delete a VM Auto Scaling Group</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>View the associated Servers</strong></mark></td><td>View the servers associated with the group.</td><td><a href="/cloud/network-services/vm-auto-scaling/how-tos/view-vm-auto-scaling-servers.md">View the Associated Servers</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>View Jobs</strong></mark></td><td>View the list of scaling operations.</td><td><a href="/cloud/network-services/vm-auto-scaling/how-tos/view-vm-auto-scaling-jobs.md">View Jobs</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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