VM Scaling

Introduction

Onidel Cloud offers flexible VM scaling, allowing you to adjust the size of your VMs to meet changing demands. With hourly billing, you can scale VMs up or down in size without being locked into a fixed configuration, making it easy to manage resources efficiently.

Disk size can only be upgraded; downgrading disk space is not supported

Scaling Up

When you scale up a VM, you are increasing its specifications—such as CPU, RAM, or storage capacity—to handle higher workloads. This process will take effect immediately, providing additional resources for applications that require more power.

Note that scaling up will result in a temporary restart of your VM.

In hourly billing, a full hour at the current rate will be billed before any changes are applied.

In subscription billing, sufficient account balance is required to cover the upgrade cost before any changes are applied.

Scaling Down

Scaling down is currently supported only with hourly billing, but we're actively working to extend this feature to subscription billing as well..

Scaling down allows you to reduce your VM's specifications when the demand decreases, helping you save on costs. Like scaling up, this change will also trigger a temporary restart, and you will be charged for the current hour at the existing rate before the lower specifications take effect.