Increase or Decrease Nodes using

You can add or remove nodes in an existing Monitoring Domain directly from if you deployed Nodes using .

Increasing or Decreasing the number of nodes in a cluster is only applicable when using Clustered based deployment.

Refer to the following topics for instructions:

Add V Series Nodes to Existing Monitoring Domain
Decrease V Series Nodes from Existing Monitoring Domain

Add V Series Nodes to Existing Monitoring Domain

To increase the number of nodes in a Monitoring Domain,

On the Monitoring Domain page, select the monitoring domain to add more Nodes.
Select Actions>Deploy Fabric.
In the VMware Fabric Deployment page, perform the following:
1. Enter the details as mentioned in Deploy V Series fabric on VMware NSX-T..
  - The Deployment type must be Clustered to have multiple deployment on the same cluster.
  - A cluster can have only one Host Based Deployment. However, you can deploy multiple clustered instances on the same cluster.
2. In the Deployment Count column, enter the number of Nodes you wish to add.
Select Deploy.
adds new nodes to the selected Monitoring Domain. The nodes appear under a new Deployment Name within the domain...

Decrease Nodes from Existing Monitoring Domain

To decrease the number of nodes,

On the Monitoring Domain page, perform one of the following:
- Select the desired Deployment to remove.
- Select the entire Monitoring Domain to remove all the related deployments.
  
  To select the deployment, you can use the check-box on the left side or select the deployment name.
Select Action>Delete Deployment.

deletes all nodes associated with the selected deployment. The node count in the Monitoring Domain decreases accordingly.

Example use-case for Increase or Decrease Nodes using

This feature is helpful when migrating from a visibility solution to a solution. Instead of undeploying and redeploying the Monitoring Domain each time you need to scale, simply add or remove Nodes within the existing domain.