Virtana Platform Administration Guide

Generic term that refers to a linked account in AWS, a project in GCP, and a subscription in Azure.

A reseller or managed service provider (MSP) that is licensed to use any Virtana Platform modules.

Cloud Cost Management is a module in Virtana Platform that helps you identify potential cost savings with your cloud service providers (CSPs), opportunities for optimizing resource usage, and CSP billing details for your environment.

The process of moving selected applications or workloads, and associated compute resources, from one location to another, usually from on-premises to the cloud.

A Zip (.zip) file provided by Virtana Services that contains monitoring data from VirtualWisdom and application mappings produced with help from the Virtana Services team.

The process of identifying the contents of an archive file and displaying the interdependencies of the identified objects in the Virtana Platform UI.

The contents of an archive (.zip) file that has been imported into Workload Placement. Projects are assigned to organizations.

The entity under which specific workloads are grouped for migration and optimization, and to which a user and projects belong. An organization typically equates to a company, but can relate to a business unit of a company, etc

A software application workload that includes: 1) All components required to run and use the application, such as servers, storage nodes, network connections, etc.; 2) Collected monitoring data associated with the application, such as conversations, usage metrics, etc.

An individual instance of a virtual machine (VM) or a physical server node that can be associated with an application or a move group (in Workload Placement). A compute instance can belong to only one application or move group.

A user-selected group of applications and/or compute devices, usually with interdependencies, that are to be moved together, without compromising application availability and performance.

A point-in-time snapshot of the amount of resources being consumed for a specific business need. Workload resources are related assets to be migrated together. In Virtana Platform, a workload could be an application workload or a custom workload.

A group of related assets (servers, storage nodes, network connections, etc.) to be migrated together that you identify in Virtana using Custom Properties.

A cloud-agnostic SaaS platform offered by Virtana that is composed of multiple modules to help migrate, optimize, and manage workloads in cloud and hybrid environments.

A piece of physical or virtualized hardware, such as servers, storage devices, network devices, etc., that run in a data center. Devices host applications.

A device that resides within a customer's data center.

A device that does not reside within a customer's data center.

Workload Placement is a module in Virtana Platform that de-risks and accelerates application or workload migrations for public or private clouds.

A company that offers cloud-based services and solutions. Examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure. Also called cloud provider.

Equates to an entity in VirtualWisdom.

An individual instance of a virtual machine (VM) or a physical server node that can be associated with an application or a move group (in Workload Placement). A compute instance can belong to only one application or move group.

Metadata created and assigned by your cloud service provider (CSP) that defines a property of a resource. You can use attributes in Virtana Platform to filter items to include in or exclude from a report.

A key/value pair or simple string used as an organizational label applied to resources. You create tags in your cloud service provider account.

Grants read-only access to collect billing files from a single AWS S3 bucket that can be located in a management account.

Grants blanket read-only access to collect CloudWatch performance metrics and billing files from AWS S3.

Grants read-only access to collect CloudWatch performance metrics and billing files. It is limited to only the AWS services for which Virtana Platform Cloud Cost Management provides cost reports.

An IAM role is an AWS identity with associated permissions policies. This role is used by Virtana Platform to communicate with AWS. The role provides temporary security credentials that only apply for the role session.

GovCloud is an AWS cloud offering that restricts administrative access to U.S. citizens only. The region meets the requirements for U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and allows users to move Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) into the cloud. See the official AWS Guide for more information.

A visualization tool that provides a view of your spend across different AWS Services. Use to get a clearer perspective of weekly, monthly, and quarterly spending trends for your business.

Distributes any up-front fees and monthly installments evenly across the reservation period.

The averaged rates of the reserved and on-demand instances that are shared by multiple member accounts. The blended view recognizes relative usage of reserved instances, so accounts that make more use of reserved instances are allocated a higher proportion of those overall costs.

The sum of the applicable rates times usage (rates x usage) for each shared resource in consolidated accounts. Unblended costs represent the usage costs on the day they are charged to you.

The grouping of multiple accounts into a single billing account, with one main "parent" account and related linked "children" for billing purposes. The child account information rolls up to the parent account. Equivalent to an AWS "organization".

An integration instance (such as AWS, Azure, or GCP), with an associated billing account. The billing account can represent a single account or multiple accounts, if doing consolidated billing.

Also called global filter. User-customized filters (tags and attributes) applied to data sources. They can be used to segment environments to identify savings within a subset of your environment.

Configuration parameters that a user can apply to a data source. In Cloud Cost Management, policies define the optimization constraints for Idle Resources and Right Sizing reports.

A user-created and user-managed AWS policy that you can embed in a single user, group, or role in AWS.

The policy parameter that allows you to select which instances or entities (scope) the policy applies to. Settings include the CSP data source and applicable filters.

The ability to submit ticket requests to modify your CSP environment based on recommendations from Idle Resources or Right Sizing Reports. The requests are configured as part of a policy in Cloud Cost Management and submitted to a change management system, such as Jira or ServiceNow.

Any compute instance, storage object, networking device, or other entity that can be created or configured within the CSP platform.

The entity under which specific workloads are grouped for migration and optimization, and to which a user and projects belong. An organization typically equates to a company, but can relate to a business unit of a company, etc

GovCloud is an AWS cloud offering that restricts administrative access to U.S. citizens only. The region meets the requirements for U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and allows users to move Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) into the cloud. See the official AWS Guide for more information.

A listening service that uses the Kubernetes API server to gather data and generate metrics about the state of objects such as nodes, pods, and deployments.

A tool for simplifying the deployment of Kubernetes applications and services.

A package that contains all resource definitions needed to run an application or service in a Kubernetes cluster.

An application that includes a Kubernetes load balancer, a network plugin, and exporter capabilities. The controller requires a public IP address or domain to access clients outside the Kubernetes cluster.

Translates metrics from the application into a format readable by Prometheus. It also makes the metrics available to be scraped by Prometheus.

An abstraction layer used to define a logical set of pods. A service allows the application to be exposed externally, provides load balancing, and allows service discovery for pods, thereby permitting your applications to receive traffic.

A file that contains the external configuration of an application.

The Amazon service for Kubernetes containers.

The Microsoft Azure service for Kubernetes containers.

The Google service for Kubernetes containers.

An executable image that contains software and all of its related dependencies. Containers decouple the software from the infrastructure and are therefore easier to deploy and are portable.

A group of containers on a cluster.

A set of nodes, some of which host the Kubernetes pods. A cluster has one management node and at least one worker node. The containerized applications run on the cluster.

A machine in Kubernetes. Depending on the cluster configuration, nodes can be either virtual or physical. There is a single management (master) node and one or more worker nodes, which run the applications. A node can have multiple pods.

An abstraction for organizing cluster objects. Resources within a namespace must have unique names.

A point-in-time snapshot of the amount of resources being consumed for a specific business need. Workload resources are related assets to be migrated together. In Virtana Platform, a workload could be an application workload or a custom workload.

A point-in-time snapshot of the amount of resources being consumed for a specific business need. Workload resources are related assets to be migrated together. In Virtana Platform, a workload could be an application workload or a custom workload.

The contents of an archive (.zip) file that has been imported into Workload Placement. Projects are assigned to organizations.