Resources charts

Resources charts show the utilization of a resource over time, for the entities in the chart's scope. The chart title shows the resource that you are plotting, as well as the chart's current scope.

To see finer details about your environment, you can set up charts that show utilization of specific commodities. For example, you can set up a dashboard with a number of Resources charts with their scopes set to the same cluster. Such a dashboard gives you a detailed look at the health of that cluster. Or you could make a dashboard with each chart scoped to a different cluster, but have all the charts show the same resource utilization.

Ring chart

For certain entity types (such as hosts, storage, and disk arrays), you will see a ring chart displayed on the left side of the window that indicates the current overall utilization of a particular resource. Hover over the ring chart to see the following information:

Ring chart of overall utilization of a resource

  • Free: Available capacity

  • Used: Utilized capacity

  • Reserved: Unavailable capacity due to utilization constraints

The sum of Free and Used capacity equals the total allocated capacity.

In addition to showing the currently discovered free and used capacity, Turbonomic also calculates Reserved capacity based on utilization constraints set in policies.

For example, for a cluster with 100 GB of allocated storage, Turbonomic might discover 80 GB of free capacity, and 20 GB of used capacity. If the cluster is currently applying a storage policy that has a utilization constraint of 90%, then Turbonomic will show 10 GB of reserved capacity.

Options

Choose Show Utilization to see averages and peaks/lows, or Show Capacity to see averages and peaks/lows versus capacity.

The Show Summary option adds a ring chart to the view, showing the current utilization of the selected commodity.

Chart Type

You can set the following types of display:

  • Line Chart

    A line plot showing resource utilization over time. The vertical green bar shows the current moment – Plots that extend to the right project utilization into the future.

  • Band Chart

    Lines plot average capacity and average used. The chart shows a band where its thickness indicates peaks and lows.