Adding a New Placement Rule

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Placement Rules keep instances on separate nodes, or the same node, via the tag placed on the instance.

The Placement Rule Wizard:

  • Navigate to Rules under Compute, then click on the ‘Add Rule’ button to open the wizard.


  • The first dropdown menu selects the tag, and the rule for their node placement is contained in the second dropdown menu.

  • If the instances in question have different tags, click on the ‘Different-tagged VMs’ radio button.

  • Then select the tags for the rule, and then the logic from the appropriate dropdown menus.

  • Finally, select the enforcement style of this rule.

    • A hard enforcement will not allow VMs to be created with the tags and the associated rule if cluster resources are near capacity.

    • Soft enforcement bends the rule if cluster resources are near capacity.



  • Click Ok to create the Placement Rule
Last modified: Tuesday, 29 May 2018, 2:20 PM