Consumer virtual data centers
A Consumer Virtual Data center (vDC) is a collection of resources that are available for external customers to manage workload through the private cloud. It is an environment customers can use to store, deploy, and operate virtual systems. Consumer Data centers use the resources supplied by a Provider Data center.
Synopsis
A Consumer vDC gains its budget as a function of its activity. The higher the utilization of the vDC, the more Turbonomic assumes the vDC is selling its services to a user. If utilization is high enough on a Consumer vDC, Turbonomic can increase resources for the vDC. If utilization falls off, Turbonomic can reduce resource capacity, or ultimately recommend terminating the vDC.
Turbonomic can also resize VMs through the Consumer vDC in response to changes in VM utilization.
| Synopsis | |
|---|---|
| Provides: | Resources to host virtual systems |
| Consumes: | Provider vDC |
| Discovered through: | Cloud Stack Managers |
While users can see some of the physical resources that support the Consumer vDC, consumer-level users cannot modify these physical resources. Users of Consumer vDCs make changes to how the virtual devices are deployed in that environment, but they must ask the Provider vDC administrator to add more physical resources to be used by the Consumer vDC. Likewise, Turbonomic can change resources on the VMs running in the vDC, but it does not make any changes to physical resources through this vDC.
Monitored resources
Turbonomic monitors the following resources:
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Memory (Mem)
Memory is the measurement of memory that is reserved or in use.
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CPU
CPU is the measurement of CPU that is reserved or in use.
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Storage
Storage is the utilization of the storage attached to the entity.
Actions
Turbonomic does not recommend actions to perform on a Consumer vDC. Instead, it recommends actions to perform on the entities running in the Provider vDC.