IBM Turbonomic Glossary

SLO (Service Level Objective) is a specific metric, such as maximum number of transactions per second or maximum acceptable response time, within a Service Level Agreement. Failure to meet the SLO could result in a penalty for the service provider, such as partial refund of fees or use of the service for additional time without additional charge.

IBM Turbonomic actively supports meeting Business Application SLOs. To evaluate the performance of your applications and Database Servers, set Response Time or Transaction SLOs as an operational constraint in policies. For applications, you can set the SLO at the Business Application, Business Transaction, Service, or Application Component level. In Kubernetes environments, SLOs defined in a Service policy override any SLOs set in the associated Application Component to prevent conflicts.

No Turbonomic actions would cause failure to meet SLO levels.

Snowflake is a SaaS product that provides data warehouse services. The Turbonomic Data Exporter can stream data to Snowflake, and customers can use Snowflake to visualize that data and gain insights into their virtual environments. 

SPECis a non-profit corporation formed to establish and maintain standardized benchmarks and tools to evaluate performance and energy efficiency for computing systems.  When creating Host templates in Turbonomic, you can choose from a catalog of CPU capacity. To build this catalog, Turbonomic uses benchmark data from spec.org.

SQL is a standard language for accessing and manipulating databases, e.g., to execute queries, retrieve data, insert or edit records, or create stored procedures. 

In the 6.4 version family, Turbonomic uses SQL to create new report templates. In later version families, Turbonomic offers Embedded Reports.

SSH is a software package that enables secure system administration and file transfers over insecure networks. In SSH, all user authentication, commands, output, and file transfers are encrypted to protect against attacks in the network. Tatu Ylonen developed the SSH protocol in 1995 in response to the hacking of the Finnish university network

To administer the Turbonomic platform at the OS or container level, you can use SSH sessions on the hosting VM. 

Supercluster is a term that refers to the results of a Merge placement policy. This Merge policy joins two or more clusters into a single group of providers. This enables Turbonomic to move workload from a host in one of the clusters to a host in any of the merged clusters.

By default, Turbonomic respects boundaries inherent in your environment, such as cluster boundaries or networks. A supercluster provides more choices for workload placement.

See also Cluster

In Turbonomic, the Supply Chain is the full stack of entities in your IT environment, placed in buyer/seller relationships with each other, where some entities provide resources while others consume the supplied resources.

Turbonomic uses Targets to discover the entities in your environment and stitch them together into a Supply Chain, and it displays the Supply Chain in an organizer that you can use to view the relationships or set session scope. With the Supply Chain, you can see at a glance how resource issues impact the full stack of your IT environment.

Swagger refers to the set of tools that you can use to implement APIs using the OpenAPI specification.  Turbonomic uses the SwaggerGUI as one way to deliver documentation for the Turbonomic API.