A big fan of Turbonomic. From the mailbag:
From: Jonathan Merrill
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 9:19 AM
Subject: RE: Lanvera & Turbonomic – VMware discussion and Turbo Instance check
Good morning, guys. I lurked on yesterdays’ call as I felt Sonny did a great job working through LANVERA’s positions. I say Turbo has been a win for our organization.
One argument to leave you with. As you may know, Turbonomic smartly trains ACE in economic terms, specifically the idea of markets, desired configuration state, utilization buying from the lowest provider. Based on our conversation yesterday, a conclusion was reached that Turbo isn’t the right product for unplanned disaster recovery, this is what Veeam, Zerto, and SRM does. Economically speaking, you’re saying the product isn’t poised to correct for sudden market volatility, a change of market conditions. I say, rubbish. Apply economic theory: Keynesian vs. Friedman.
I would reason Turbonomic should be able to apply Keynesian theories, as I control the markets’ foundation and worth by submitting an economic plan. For better or for worse, if I want one market to look less appetizing than the other, I submit a plan and the markets react, utilization buying to the lowest provider. Which essentially is what LANVERA is looking for. I want to move workloads from one data center to another. I want to be able to control all workloads in one DC to shift to the other side through “an economic plan”. I should be able to define market strategy to meet a planned economic market outcome. I see this as a basic Turbonomic function.
I also contend Turbonomic should be able to support Friedman’s theory, which is best poised to handle market volatility. If a host goes down (ie, consumers stop buying), the market adjusts by triggering economic stimulus (disaster recovery hosts or moving workloads to the DR side). This reactionary economic plan ensures desired configuration state in tough economic times, and could include cloud (foreign) markets (not in our case). Alarms should go out when market volatility occurs and adjustments should be made at the workload level (consumer). Essentially what LANVERA is looking for. I should be able to define disaster (market) recovery plan which basically outlines where workloads go during unplanned events.
Maybe that means trigger SRM or Veeam Orchestration. But you see the problem with that right? Unless your hooking into those tools and pulling the strings, the response time still requires human intervention. Not ideal.
Food for thought.
Anyone else think Turbonomic could replace SRM? This is what watching YouTube financial video watching does..
\\ JMM