Sustainability features

Turbonomic helps companies reduce their energy usage and carbon footprint by optimizing IT infrastructure while ensuring that applications get the resources that they need to perform optimally. This core functionality, along with visibility into sustainability data, is crucial to setting and achieving sustainability goals. To visualize this data, Turbonomic provides the following features.

Sustainability charts

Turbonomic monitors the energy usage and carbon footprint of your IT infrastructure, and then displays relevant data in charts. Currently, these capabilities are supported for on-prem hosts and VMs. When you set the scope to any of these entities and then click the Details tab, you can view sustainability data in the Energy and Carbon Footprint charts.

Carbon Footprint chart

For details, see Energy Chart and Carbon Footprint Chart.

Data center policies

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.

Configure Data Centers Policy page

For details, see Data Center Policies.

Sustainability Liveboards in SaaS Reporting

The sustainability Liveboards help you gain insight into how you can reduce your carbon footprint and energy usage. For more information about SaaS reporting, see Enabling SaaS Reporting.

  • Sustainable IT Liveboard – Private Cloud

    This Liveboard focuses on the energy usage and carbon footprint of hosts. It also shows opportunities to reduce usage and footprint by executing Turbonomic actions.

    Sustainable IT Liveboard – Private Cloud
  • Application Carbon Footprint – Private Cloud

    This Liveboard focuses on the energy usage and carbon footprint of VMs. The Carbon Footprint by Business Application view provides insight into the carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions of the VMs that power your applications. The Liveboard also shows opportunities to reclaim resources by executing VM resize actions, as well as optimization opportunities that can help reduce usage and footprint further.

    Application Carbon Footprint – Private Cloud

Sustainability metrics in VM move, VM resize, and host suspend actions

Turbonomic displays the projected changes in carbon footprint and energy usage that are associated with VM move, VM resize, and host suspend actions on the Action Details page for those actions. You can use these metrics to understand the reduction in carbon footprint and energy usage that are associated with moving VMs and suspending hosts.

Carbon footprint and energy action details

The current Energy Usage for each host is also displayed in the Action Center summary for host suspend actions.

Carbon footprint and energy action details