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Add "Non-Disruptive" column to Action Center for On-Prem and Container actions

Today, in the Action Center for many Cloud scaling actions, we have a column highlighting whether the action is non-disruptive or not. This helps customers adopt Turbo's automation quicker, builds trust, and lowers the barriers to action execution...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 5 Future consideration

Consistent Resizing for Storage

Extend the concept of consistent sizing for grouped servers to storage on the grouped servers. For instance, if i have servers in a cluster or servers that have been grouped together via tagging and rule, if there is a recommendation for storage, ...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 2 Future consideration

Add the Hours Idle field to VMs

The customer, HCSC, desires to create policies on cloud VMs based on how many hours they have been idle. Currently, IBM Turbonomic only supports the Hours Idle parameter for PaaS Synapse databases.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 1 Future consideration

Automatically enable CPU and Memory hotadd

I would like to see a policy option for enabling hot-add as part of a pre or post action. this would simply adoption and onboarding of Virtual machines.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 4 Future consideration

Ideas for more consumable actions

After initial deployment, it may take many Turbonomic actions to bring the existing environment to a more desired state. As a new user to Turbonomic it can be hard to digest and consume those actions and understand where to start. Some ideas to he...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 1 Future consideration

Group the actions in ServiceNow - and then let the App Owner approve the VM rightsize actions from the one CR.

Group the actions in Snow - and then let the App Owner approve the VM rightsize actions from the one CR. And is able to select some or all of them. Otherwise the app owners will get deluged with multiple individual changes coming in to approve/rej...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 2 Future consideration

Request for more options in Rate of Resize

We are trying to get automated resizing implemented at Bank of New York Mellon and we are currently in the testing phase and all is going well other than the Rate of Resize. As you know you can scale by 1, a few, or straight to best recommendation...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 2 Future consideration

Have a way to control how many action to send to ServiceNow

We would like to integrate our Turbonomic with ServiceNow for VM right-sizing actions. But we found out that once we turn on that automation, Turbonomic is going to send all (1000+) of actions to ServiceNow ... that is not acceptable as it will fl...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 1 Future consideration

Follow VM start & stop order on vSphere policy

After vSphere v6.7,  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-7A132146-2779-4F4B-B39D-EE4F129DB79C.html There is a feature that allows administrators to control the order in which VMs are started and stopp...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 0 Future consideration