Automated rebalancing

Since the Rebalance Cluster Action runs so well, we may want to implement some kind of repeatable or automatic rebalancing action to balance our datacenter.

We will take a look at various ways to achieve this. All of the options we are going to discuss can be mixed together to achieve the desired result.

Scheduling a rebalance action

The first option we are going to discuss is to schedule a rebalance action.

We can do this from the Are Clusters balanced? widget, by clicking on the Schedule rebalance action button:

We can then schedule rebalances to run once daily, weekly, or monthly.

The drawback here is that the rebalance will take place on a fixed schedule. What if contention occurs outside of the...