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More Elastic Scaling: Remove hardcoded restrictions on maximum observation period

For those customers that want to unleash Turbonomic to unlock elasticity in the cloud, we use the percentile and observation settings to help influence Turbo's decision making. However, it appears there are hardcoded limits to the minimum/maximum ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 0 Planned for future release

Automatic Snapshot Removal

Snapshots are often taken and forgotten in the environment. They cause both unwanted storage use and performance issue to VMs if left around too long. Would like to be able to create an automation to remove\consolidate snapshots for groups based o...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 3 Planned for future release

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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 4 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 2 Planned for future release

Turbonomic -ARM to work with GCP Cloud SQL

Need to add following capability to GCP Cloud SQL compatibility: action capabilities need to add Azure/AWS Savings Plans (vs RI's). We have visibility, actions capabilities need to add
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 0 Planned for future release

Enable VM group creation by filtering on VMware Horizon Persistence state (Persistent vs Non-Persistent VM)

Being able to create Turbonomic groups based on whether a VM is a Persistent or Non-Persistent VDI instance would allow Turbo automation to be managed based on the instance type.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Action Automation 0 Planned for future release