Commodities Bought and Sold by Entities
Entities in a Turbonomic supply chain exist in relationship to each other. One entity can sell commodities to some entities, and it can buy commodities from other entities. A commodity is the resource that is expressed by a Metrics Entry Object.
There are constraints to these relationships. For example, a businessApplication cannot buy dbMem from a businessTransaction entity, but it can buy dbMem from a databaseServer entity.
The following table lists entity types, and the commodities they can buy and sell:
Entity Type | Commodities Sold | Commodities Bought |
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businessApplication |
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businessTransaction |
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service |
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application |
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databaseServer |
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virtualMachine |
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container |
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