Action types

• Buy – Purchase cloud instances at a discounted rate to reduce on-demand costs

• Delete – Remove unused entities (for example, datastores on disk arrays or unattached volumes)

• Move – Move an entity from one provider to another to address performance issues or improve infrastructure efficiency

• Optimization – Increase discount coverage for cloud workloads to reduce on-demand costs

• Provision – Add resource providers to the environment to increase capacity

• Reconfigure – Correct a misconfiguration to bring an entity into compliance

• Scale/Resize – Change the resources allocated to workloads to meet demand

• Start – Start a stopped/suspended entity

• Stop/Suspend – Pause an entity for a period of time to increase efficient use of resources

For information on the actions that Turbonomic generates for specific entities, see Actions by Entity Type.