Other information imported from vCenter
In addition to discovering entities managed by the vSphere hypervisors and their resources, Turbonomic:
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Imports any vSphere Host DRS rules when DRS is enabled, and displays them on the Policy > Workload Placement view under Imported Placement Policies. Imported rules are enabled by default, but you can disable them in Turbonomic.
Note:In vCenter environments, Turbonomic does not import DRS rules if DRS is disabled on the hypervisor. Further, if Turbonomic did import an enabled DRS rule and somebody subsequently disables that DRS rule, then Turbonomic will discover that the rule was disabled and will remove the imported placement policy.
Imports any custom annotations and displays related groupings in the Inventory > Groups tree view, under VC Annotations. The service account must enable the Global > Global tag privilege.
For vCenter Server versions 5.5 and later, discovers Virtual Machine Storage Profiles and displays them as groups anywhere that you can set scope. The groups appear under VC Storage Profiles. You can use these discovered storage profiles the same as any other groups — For example, to scope dashboards, or to set the scope for specific action policies.
Discovers resource pools and displays them as folders in the Inventory tree and as components in the Supply Chain Navigator. If you have the Cloud Control Module license, Turbonomic manages resource pools as Virtual Datacenters (VDCs) and can recommend resize actions. Root resource pools appear as Provider VDCs in the supply chain, whereas child resource pools appear as Consumer VDCs.
Imports vSphere HA cluster settings and translates them into CPU and memory utilization constraints. These are displayed as cluster-level overrides under Folders on the Policy > Analysis > Host view.
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Discovers the GPUs installed in your ESXi hosts, the virtual GPUs allocated to your Virtual Machines, and GPUs in pass-through mode. GPU information is shown in the Entity Information widget.