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Optimize and maintain SLA of OpenShift Virtualization workloads and ensure that your infrastructure and platform run efficiently to reduce overall TCO.

By Patrycja Hubl- Lis posted Tue April 01, 2025 05:04 AM

  

Overview

Turbonomic is a leading solution for Application Resource Management (ARM), using an application-driven approach to continuously analyze resource needs and generate automated actions that ensure optimal application performance.

OpenShift is a scalable, reliable platform designed to support modern virtualization workloads. With OpenShift Virtualization, customers can manage virtual machines within a cloud-native environment using Kubernetes.

This blog highlights Turbonomic’s observability capabilities for OpenShift Virtualization, offering actionable insights into resource utilization, performance, and cost for virtual machine workloads. Users can leverage these insights to maximize resource efficiency and enhance application performance.

Solution

Turbonomic previously supported container workloads on the OpenShift platform but did not extend support to virtual machine workloads.

Many customers running VM-based workloads are looking to move to OpenShift to host both containers and virtual machines. Additionally, VMware users seeking an alternative platform for their VMs can now migrate their existing VM estates to OpenShift.

With these new enhancements, Turbonomic now supports virtual machine workloads and applications as well. It is the only Application Resource Management (ARM) solution that supports both VMware and OpenShift platforms.

Based on the real-time and historical applications demand, Turbonomic can suggest best actions at the right time to ensure applications get exactly what they need to perform. It enables users to:  

  • Intelligent sizing – provide actions to right size virtual machines as well as containers. 

  • Prevent any sort of bottlenecks on nodes – Continuous placement to ensure there are NO congestion at nodes. 

  • Dynamic Resource Scaling – Scale out / in depending upon the resource needs. 

  • Assure performance without overprovisioning. 

  • Proactive plan for future – Can generate plans based on the current and future usages to accurately predict future demands. 

Use Cases:

  • VMWare customers can host move their existing VMs estate to OpenShift and Turbonomic can provide similar optimization and DRS like capabilities on the OpenShift. 

  • In future – Turbonomic will allow customers to generate plans with intention to migrate their existing VMWare estates to OpenShift platform, and users will seamlessly able to migrate their VMs to OpenShift. 

  • Customers who want to run VMs workloads on the OpenShift virtualization platform, Turbonomic can provide ARM capabilities and DRS like functionalities for OpenShift virtualization platform to effectively manage VMs workloads. 

Author:

Simer Singh, Product Manager, Turbonomic

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