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30 min
Last updated 06/07/2023

106: Turbonomic Dashboard

106: Turbonomic Dashboard

1. Dashboard Home

To navigate to the Turbonomic dashboard:

  • Select "Reports" in the dropdown (A)
  • Start typing "Turbonomic" and select "turbonomic Performance Dashboard" (B)


The dashboard shows the entire organization's Host energy and emission details.

Reporting Period

Note: you can change the report period to show the data between the selected dates.

Left Panel

The left side panel shows the following for the entire organization.

  • Host Energy of Current Year (985.8K), Previous Year (1.0M) and variation (-5.2%)
  • Carbon Emissions of Current Year (315.3), Previous Year (342.5) and variation (-7.9%)
  • Average Active hosts (32) and Average Active VMs (509)

So there is a reduction in Host energy consumption and Carbon Emissions this year compared to previous year.

Center Panel

The center panel shows data centers marked in the map.

Right Panel

The right side panel shows the list of data centers ordered based on Host energy consumption.

1.1 Host Energy Consumption by Data Center

  1. Click on any of the data center in the Map.

    The left side panel is updated with data center specific data.

  • Host Energy of Current Year (171.8K), Previous Year (243.8K) and variation (-29.5%)

  • Carbon Emissions of Current Year (39.7), Previous Year (51.1) and variation (-22.3%)

  • Average Active hosts (47) and Average Active VMs (961)

    The right side panel also highlights the selected data center.

  1. Mouseover the data center in the map shows the Host energy Consumption graph comparing with the previous year.

    The graph shows that energy consumption is less than last year.

1.2 Host Emissions by Data Center

  1. Click on the Emissions tab in the Center panel.

    It refreshes the page with the Emissions details. There is no change to the left panel as it is already showing emission details.

  2. Mouseover the data center in the map shows the Emissions graph comparing with the previous year.

    The graph shows that emissions are less than last year.

1.3 VM:Host Density by Data Center

  1. Click on VM:HOST tab and it shows VM and Host density in the Data center.

    When more VMs are provisioned in a Host then it would be a effective utilization of the resources. Turbonomic helps to identify the scattered VMs and take appropriate actions.

  2. Mouseover the data center in the map shows the VM:Host density comparing with the previous year.

1.4 Energy:Host Intensity by Data Center

  1. Click on the Energy:Host tab in the Center panel.

  2. Mouseover on the data center in the map shows the Energy:Host Intensity comparing with the previous year.

2. Data Center Summary

Lets look at the data center summary report.

  1. Click on any of the data center in the right panel.

  2. Click on Drillthrough on selected data center button.

This brings us to the Data Center Summary page.

Left Panel

The left side panel shows the following info related to the selected data center.

  • Name of the Data center
  • Location Id
  • Country
  • Host Energy of Current Year (210.00K), Previous Year (203.52K) and variation (3.18%)
  • Carbon Emissions of Current Year (50.46), Previous Year (46.08) and variation (9.51%)
  • Month on Month Host emissions graph.

Center Panel

The top of the Center Panel shows VM:Host Density vs Host Energy Consumption graph.

The bottom of the Center Panel shows No. of Active Hosts vs No. of Active VMs graph.

2.1 VM:Host Density vs Host Energy Consumption

  1. Click on any of the month in the left panel.

The center panel get refreshed.

  1. Mouseover the in the No. of Active Hosts vs No. of Active VMs section of the graph. It shows
  • The Active Hosts of the month is 63
  • The Active VMs of the month is 998
  1. Mouseover the in the VM:Host Density vs Host Energy Consumption section of the graph. It shows
  • The Host Energy of the month is 17,932.33
  • The VM Density of the month is 15.84

2.2 Energy:Host Intensity vs Host Energy Consumption

  1. Click on the Energy:Host tab in the Center panel.
  1. Mouseover the in the Energy:Host Intensity vs Host Energy Consumption section of the graph. It shows
  • The Host Energy for May 2022 is 17,825.00
  • The VM Host Density of the month is 15.00

Congratulations! You've finished with Envizi labs.