Volume (cloud)

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A cloud volume is a storage device that you can attach to a VM. You can use an attached volume the same as a physical hard drive. Turbonomic discovers volumes through public cloud targets.

Volume in the Supply Chain

Monitored resources

Turbonomic monitors the following resources:

  • Storage amount

    Storage amount is the storage capacity (disk size) of a volume.

  • IOPS

    IOPS is the measurement of IOPS capacity that is in use.

  • I/O throughput

    I/O throughput is the measurement of I/O throughput capacity that is in use.

Note:

Turbonomic also monitors the attachment state of volumes and generates delete actions for unattached volumes.

Actions

Turbonomic supports the following actions:

  • Scale

    Scale attached volumes to optimize performance and costs.

    For details, see Cloud volume scale actions.

  • Delete

    Delete unattached volumes as a cost-saving measure.

    Note:

    Volumes attached to idle VMs are deleted as part of the VM deletion process.

    For details, see Cloud volume delete actions.