Step 1: Open The Creation Wizard
In the Elastigroups view, select Create to open the Creation Wizard.
Step 2: General Configurations
Name: Choose a name for the Elastigroup. We recommend using a naming convention based on the specific workload the Elastigroup will manage.
Region: Select an Azure Region the Elastigroup will run in.
Elastigroup Capacity
- Target: The number of Low Priority VM’s in your Elastigroup.
- Minimum: In the case of a ‘scale down’ policy action, this is the minimum number of running Low Priority VM’s in the group.The minimum acceptable value is 0.
- Maximum: In the case of a ‘scale up’ policy action, this is the maximum number of running Low Priority VM’s in the group. The minimum acceptable value is 0.
Step 3: Compute
Product: Select an OS, can be either Linux or Windows.
Elastigroup Resource Group: Elastigroup launches Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) to manage your Low priority VMs. Select the Resource Group for Elastigroup to launch these VMSS’s into.
Low priority Sizes: Select the Low Priority VMs sizes to be available for the Elastigroup. Make sure the selected VM size is available in the desired Region.
Note: To maximize cost savings, provide the Elastigroup with all possible Low-Priority VM sizes compatible with the expected workload. The more VM sizes, the better the odds Elastigroup will find an available Low-Priority VM to run on.
On-Demand Sizes: Select the Regular Priority VMs sizes within the Elastigroup. These are used in the event that no Low-Priority VMs are available in the sizes requested. Make sure the selected VMs are available in the desired Region.
Image:
- Marketplace: choose one of the Images available in the Azure Marketplace.
- Custom: Choose one of your custom made VM Images.
Network:
- Vnet Resource Group: Select the Vnet Resource group you want your Elastigroup Scale Sets to be a part of.
- Virtual Network: Select the specific Virtual Network (VN) for your Elastigroup.
- Subnet ID: Select the specific Subnet inside your VN.
- Assign Public IP: Check this mark of you wish VMs in this Elastigroup to launch with a Public IP.
User Name: Specify the User you wish to SSH the VM’s with.
SSH Key/Windows Password: The Public SSH Key for the specified User. If Windows is the selected VM product, this will be a password.
Step 7: Review
In the review page fill in the ClusterID and queue name under thirdPartiesIntegration as explained in the following example:
{
"group": {
"thirdPartiesIntegration": {
"hpcGridEngine": {
"clusterId": "mycluster",
"queues": [
{
"name": "queue1"
},
{
"name": "queue2"
}
]
}
}
}
}