Data center policies
Turbonomic ships with default automation policies that are believed to give you the best results based on our analysis. For certain entities in your environment, you can create automation policies as a way to override the defaults.
Operational constraints
Turbonomic calculates carbon footprint using industry standards that take into account energy consumption, datacenter efficiency, and carbon intensity data. You can create Data Center policies to adjust the calculations according to the requirements of your data centers. For example, a data center in a particular location might have different requirements than data centers in other locations. After you adjust the calculations via policies, Turbonomic can accurately report your organization's carbon footprint.
| Attribute | Default value |
|---|---|
| Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) | 1.5 |
| Carbon Intensity (CI) | .25 (g/Wh) |
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Carbon Intensity (CI) is a measurement of how 'clean' electricity is. It refers to how many grams of carbon dioxide (CO2) are released to produce 1 watt-hour (Wh) of electricity. Electricity that is generated using fossil fuels is more carbon intensive, as the process by which it is generated creates CO2 emissions. Renewable energy sources, such as wind, hydro, or solar power produce next to no CO2 emissions, so their carbon intensity value is much lower and often zero.
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Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a ratio that describes how efficiently a computer data center uses energy; specifically, how much energy is used by the computing equipment. PUE is the ratio of the total amount of energy used by a computer data center facility to the energy delivered to computing equipment. The closer PUE is to 1, the more efficient the computer data center.
Placement policies
For vCenter environments, you can create placement policies that merge data centers to support cross-vCenter moves. In this case, where a data center corresponds to a vCenter target, the merged clusters can be in different data centers. In this case, you must create two merge policies; one to merge the affected data centers, and another to merge the specific clusters.
For more information, see Creating Placement Policies.