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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Turbonomic ARM
Categories On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) Public Cloud IaaS
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 10, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Allow to be build a policy to generate VM delete action for VM being idle for a defined number of days or VM delete actions or at least a list of VMs probably no longer used (minimal CPU usage, no net

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

Based on Idea TURBO-I-450 (measure and display days a VM is being idle) please allow to set a policy to generate delete actions for VMs being idle for x days.

In addition to that, allow to set a policy as it is available with all the cloud optimization tools incl. the cloud provider tooling to set conditions under which a VM or other cloud services is suspicious not to be used anymore (less than x percent CPU peak the last x days, less that x KB inbound network traffic the last x days, ..). See the following links for metrics currently used by the cloud providers for generating shutdown recommendations:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/advisor/advisor-cost-recommendations#shutdown-recommendations

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/idle-vm-recommendations-overview

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cost-management/latest/userguide/ce-rightsizing.html

 

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Jan 24, 2025

    And I insist on this: it's not enough to have a look just at vCPU or vMem, it needs to consider network traffic! :)

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 22, 2023

    Having a way to collect network traffic of a VM and being able to group VM with no traffic over a certain period of time would already be a very cool first step…

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