http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2011/05/18/scvmm-2012-an-explanation-of-scale-in-and-scale-out-for-a-service.aspxHi everyone, Biddappa Berera here, and today I’d like to talk about the scaling of services deployed to hostgroups and private clouds in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012. A service in VMM 2012 is a logical grouping of virtual machines that theen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2011/05/18/scvmm-2012-an-explanation-of-scale-in-and-scale-out-for-a-service.aspx#3436435Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:42:45 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3436435Stephen Baron [MSFT]<p>Yes, a scale in operation will result in the VM being removed from the load balancer&#39;s VIP pool.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Stephen</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3436435" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/scvmm/archive/2011/05/18/scvmm-2012-an-explanation-of-scale-in-and-scale-out-for-a-service.aspx#3436394Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:17:42 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3436394OtherKevin<p>I get that with Scaling Out in host groups or private clouds that the new VM is automatically added to the load balancer used for that particular service, but you don&#39;t mention what happens when the VM is Scaled In/deleted. &nbsp;Is the configuration of the load balancer also automatically updated?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3436394" width="1" height="1">