Creating placement policies

Note:

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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 create the following placement policies:

  • Place - Determine which entities use specific providers.

    For more information on Place policies, click here.

  • Don't Place - Consumers must never run on specific providers.

    For more information on Don't Place policies, click here.

  • Merge - Merge clusters into a single provider group.

    For more information on Merge policies, click here.

  • License - Set up hosts to provide licenses for VMs.

    For more information on License policies, click here.

  1. Open the Settings page.

    Settings Button

    Click to open the Settings Page. From there, you can perform various Turbonomic configuration tasks.

  2. Choose Policies.

    Policies Button

    Click to open the Policies page.

    This page lists all the policies that you currently configured for Turbonomic.

  3. Create a new placement policy.
    1. Click the Placement policies tab.
    2. Click Create.
    3. Enter a name for the policy.
    4. Select the placement policy type.
    5. Specify the settings.
    Create new policy
  4. Click Create to save the policy.