Container platform CPU metrics

To meet user requirements and align with container platform specifications, Turbonomic uses millicore (mCore) as the base unit for CPU metrics for your container platform.

Container platform entities in the supply chain
These include metrics for the following CPU-related commodities:
  • vCPU

  • vCPU Request

  • vCPU Limit Quota

  • vCPU Request Quota

  • vCPU Throttling

Turbonomic displays these commodities in charts, actions, policies, and plans. For example:

  • In the Capacity and Usage chart for container platform entities, capacity and used values for CPU-related commodities are shown in mCores.

  • In the supply chain, when you scope to a Workload Controller to view pending resize actions for a container, you will see utilization and resize values in mCores.

  • When you create container spec policies, resize thresholds and increment constants for CPU-related commodities are set in mCores.

  • For an Optimize Container Cluster plan, the plan results for CPU-related commodities are shown in mCores.

For nodes (VMs) and Application Components:

  • For nodes stitched to your container platform, the base unit for vCPU Request is also mCore, since this commodity is provided only to the container platform.

  • For both nodes and Application Components (standalone or stitched to your container platform), the base unit for vCPU is MHz, since this is a generic commodity. For example, when you view a pod move action, vCPU metrics for the current and destination nodes for the pod are expressed in MHz.

The following table summarizes the base units of CPU measurement that Turbonomic uses.

Entity CPU commodity
vCPU vCPU request vCPU limit quota vCPU request quota vCPU throttling
Container mCore mCore mCore mCore mCore
Container spec mCore mCore N/A N/A mCore
Workload Controller N/A N/A mCore mCore N/A
Container Pod mCore mCore mCore mCore N/A
Namespace mCore mCore mCore mCore N/A
Container Platform Cluster mCore mCore N/A N/A N/A
Node (VM) MHz mCore N/A N/A N/A
Application Component MHz N/A N/A N/A N/A