Originally Posted by
saki2fifty
I'm reading up on clouds, the infrastructure, design, etc. but im a little confused on the "scaling" part of it.
In example, and in simplistic terms, if I have 2 servers each with 128 megs of ram within my cloud and I have one client who has purchased 128 megs of RAM for just one of his hugemongous VM's using all resources on one of the servers, and then decides to "scale" to use more ram, say 256MB, how is it possible that his VM can use the extra ram when its on a completly different server?
I use RAM as just an example, but any resource for that matter whether is disk space, ram, etc. still applies for the question.
Im am absolutely sure im misunderstanding the concept. I'm reading through a book, and thought i'd ask this while it was fresh on my mind.