Hypervisor targets

A hypervisor is a service that creates and runs virtual machines (VMs), containers, or both, and provides these entities compute and storage resources. When you connect Turbonomic to hypervisor targets in your environment, Turbonomic assures application performance by using these resources as efficiently as possible.

After connected to a hypervisor target, Turbonomic discovers the VMs, containers, or physical machines that host the VMs or containers, data stores that provide storage resources to the physical machines, and virtual data stores that provide storage resources.

As more targets are added, Turbonomic discovers the resources belonging to your physical and virtual infrastructure. For example, adding the underlying hardware as part of a UCS, storage target, or both provides more visibility into the physical infrastructure of your environment. To extend the virtual infrastructure, application server or guest operating process targets can be added.

Turbonomic represents your environment holistically as a supply chain of resource buyers and sellers, all working together to meet application demand. Turbonomic maintains your environment within the desired state by empowering buyers and sellers:

  • Buyers (VMs, instances, containers, and services) are given a budget to seek the resources that applications need to perform.

  • Sellers can price their available resources (CPU, memory, storage, network) based on utilization in real-time.

Turbonomic does not support moves across stand-alone hosts or the merging of stand-alone hosts in any hypervisor. Turbonomic supports only VM moves across host cluster and merging host clusters.

For more information, see Application Resource Management.

Supply chain

Each hypervisor requires a physical machine (host) and one or more data stores to provide compute and storage resources. Virtual machines (VMs) or containers run on those physical resources, and the VMs in turn provide resources to applications.

At the end of the supply chain, physical machines consume resources from data centers.

If your environment includes SAN technologies such as disk arrays, then the storage consumes resources from that underlying technology. If you add these storage targets, then Turbonomic extends the supply chain analysis into the components that make up the disk array. For more information, see Storage Manager Targets.