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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Support Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation for Google Cloud Service Account Authentication in IBM Turbonomic

IBM Turbonomic currently requires a Google Cloud service account JSON key file to authenticate when configuring Google Cloud workload monitoring, as described in the IBM documentation: IBM Turbonomic – Setting up a Google Cloud service account for...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Submitted

Enable the independent definition of all Database Action types

As a Turbo administrator, I need to be able to define Policy for Database suspend, Database reconfigure, and Database delete actions without also configuring Cloud DB scale settings on the same Policy. Currently, Cloud DB scale MUST be configured ...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Enhance Turbonomic RBAC to restrict Action visibility based on user scope (separating Application Teams from Platform Teams).

Current Challenge: The current Turbonomic RBAC plans to assign permissions globally based on "Actions" (e.g., permission to execute recommendations). This lacks scope-sensitive isolation. Currently, Application Owners can see platform-level infras...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security Submitted

Add a Status filter to the Related targets panel

When viewing related targets (from Targets page, select "three-dots" menu & pick View then select the Related targets (#) tab, it can be difficult to see targets with a specific state. In the attached screenshot, there are 202 total targets. N...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted

Enable Dynamic Application Maps for Pods, Namespaces, and Other Tagged Entities

Turbonomic currently allows Dynamic Application Maps to be generated based on VMs, but this capability is not available for other entity types such as Kubernetes Pods or Namespaces, even though these entities can also have labels/tags that can be ...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted

Enable minimum observation period for VM suspend actions

Currently there is no option to configure a minimum observation period for VM suspend actions. This means that a VM that was recently provisioned and has low utilization will be targeted for suspension.
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Support for Power Enterprise Pool (PEP) on PowerVM Targets

PEP on IBM Power systems, is a technological solution that allows you to flexibly manage computing resources (processors, memory) on multiple Power servers within the same farm, aggregating the capabilities of multiple machines into a single share...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) Future consideration

Enforce Resource Configuration as Multiples of Increment Values in Container Specs Policies

I would like to submit an enhancement request for Turbonomic regarding policy settings for Container Specs. Currently, Turbonomic policies allow us to define: minimum configuration, maximum configuration, and increment steps. However, it would be ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Add local time/region in the SaaS UI

Today the SaaS upgrades happen based on the region they are hosted but the customers do not have a way to know which region they are hosted in with clarity. This leads to customers being unaware of upgrade/maintenance windows.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS Submitted

Add a combined VM memory utilization metric to UI widgets that displays VMEM utilization plus Transient Memory as a single effective memory-demand value.

Overview Add a new commodity or derived metric to IBM Turbonomic UI widgets that combines VMEM utilization and Transient Memory into a single value representing the VM’s effective memory demand. Today, the UI displays VMEM utilization and Transien...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) Future consideration