Placement policies
A placement policy is a set of rules that Turbonomic must satisfy when generating placement recommendations for on-prem and containerized workloads.
With these policies, Turbonomic can recommend placement actions that comply with your business rules. For example, a placement policy can constrain VMs to specific hosts. If a VM needs to move to a different host due to resource congestion, Turbonomic will generate an action to move the VM to one of the hosts defined in the policy.
Turbonomic discovers placement policies from your targets, and allows you to create your own policies.
You can enable or disable any placement policy to affect placement calculations in the real-time environment or in plans.
When calculating workload placement, Turbonomic respects cluster boundaries, networks, and provisioned data stores. In addition, the configuration of your environment can specify logical boundaries, and you can create even more boundaries within Turbonomic. These boundaries impose segments on the market that Turbonomic uses to model your application infrastructure.
In finance, a market segment divides the market according to the criteria different groups of people use when they buy or sell goods and services. Likewise in the Turbonomic market, a workload placement segment uses criteria to focus the buying and selling of resources within specific groups of entities. This gives you finer control over how Turbonomic calculates placements.