NRM 441 outputs, to NICM 445, a request to clean up vBNG 1 457 (416). Said differently, when health data for vBNG 1 457 is not received within the threshold time, NRM 441 outputs, to NICM 445, an instruction to destroy vBNG 1 457. NICM 445 outputs, to vBNG 1 457, an instruction to destroy vBNG 1 457 (418). Said differently, NICM 445 outputs an instruction, to an edge router that provisioned vBNG 1 457, to delete vBNG 1 457 in response to receiving the instruction to destroy vBNG 1 457 from NRM 441. In this example, vBNG 1 457 and/or a BNG virtual machine manager for vBNG 1 457 receives the instruction to destroy vBNG 1 457 and destroys the particular vBNG instance.
NRM 441 notifies NLB 447 to recompute the load (420). Said differently, NRM 441 outputs, to NLB 447, an instruction to recompute load balancing for vBNG N+1 461N. In this example, NLB 447 outputs a load balancer credit to vBNG N+1 461N in response to the instruction to recompute load balancing for vBNG N+1 461N. As shown in