Turbonomic

Combine Cloudability and Turbonomic to give your organization the most comprehensive FinOps solution enabling infrastructure and application teams to maximize business outcomes across private cloud, public cloud, and Kubernetes. Integrating Turbonomic with Cloudability will allow for the surfacing of additional optimization information and recommendations from Turbonomic directly within Cloudability using a “single pane of glass” approach.

Before you start

To view the Turbonomic dashboard, make sure that Turbonomic is configured in Cloudability.

Turbonomic Integration - Setup

Access the dashboard

To access the Turbonomic dashboard, open the Cloudability home page, and from the left navigation menu, select Optimize > Turbonomic to view optimization information and recommendations from Turbonomic .

The Turbonomic dashboard displays following information for Cloud:

• Necessary Investment s: The total rolled-up cost of all the necessary investments from Turbonomic that are displayed in the Necessary Investments Chart.
• Necessary Investments Chart: This chart shows the cost of executing all the pending actions that Turbonomic identifies as a result of its analysis.
  • For example, if some workloads risk losing performance, Turbonomic might recommend scaling actions for the virtual machine to increase resources. The Necessary Investments chart shows how these actions translate to an increase in expenditure.
  • The projected amounts include on-demand costs for VMs.

  • Click “ Show all ” at the bottom of the chart to see a breakdown of cost by action/entity type and entity. By default, the actions are shown in order of largest amounts so you can easily identify which ones will incur the highest costs. For example, you can see the cost of executing all Scale actions on the virtual machines included in the chart's scope, and the cost for individual virtual machines.

  • To display a filtered view of the actions list, click an action type (for example, Scale Volumes) in the ring chart or legend and click on View in Turbonomic .
• Potential Savings: The total rolled-up cost of all the potential savings from Turbonomic that are displayed in the Potential Savings Chart.
• Potential Savings Chart: This chart shows potential savings in your cloud expenditure, assuming you execute all the pending actions that Turbonomic identifies as a result of its analysis.
  • For example, if there are pending actions to scale a virtual machine, which result in reduced monthly costs, the Potential Savings chart shows the reduced cost that would result from those actions.
  • This chart also tracks discount optimization actions. VM scaling actions may result in freed up capacity on a discounted instance type, which can now be applied to a different VM. Discount optimization actions reflect the potential savings resulting from reassigning the capacity to a different VM. These actions are not executed by Turbonomic users. They reflect capacity reassignment performed by your cloud provider.
  • The projected amounts include on-demand costs for VMs.
  • Click “ Show al l” at the bottom of the chart to see a breakdown of savings by action/entity type and entity. By default, the actions are shown in order of largest amounts so you can easily identify which ones will introduce the most savings. For example, you can see the savings you would realize if you execute all Scale actions on the virtual machines included in the chart's scope, and the savings for individual virtual machines.
  • To display a filtered view of the actions list, click an action type (for example, Scale Volumes) in the ring chart or legend and click on “ View in Turbonomic.