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Instance Id to be included in actions excel for VMs and Databases, the way it is for Volumes

Hi Team, We download the Actions Center Excel file and share it with business owners for their approval. Many of the actions in the downloaded file appear identical. While the Turbonomic UI displays different Instance IDs for these actions, the Ex...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Oracle Target Admin Role

I would like to be able to offload the administration (create, modify, delete) of the Oracle targets to a person or group without giving them the role of Site Administrator.Oracle targets, in particular, are very tedious to manage because a separa...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Allowing Scheduling of a Parking Schedule Pause

We have a need to plan/schedule Parking Schedule Pauses to allow developers/engineers to plan maintain windows into existing Parking Schedules. So currently we have parking schedules in place and our sysadmins can pause a parking schedule for a pe...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses For example, suppose there are 3,000 EC2 virtual machines in one AWS account. In that case, under the current Turbonomic structure, 3,000 machines (3,000 licenses) are required on an MVS ...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Turbonomic: Add support to install OVA on Nutanix Acropolis (not just target support)

As a customer, we need Turbonomic to support installations of on-prem Turbonomic servers, including SaaS components on Nutanix.Nutanix publishes a how-to for importing an OVA and running it. However this needs to be tested and supported by the pro...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 15 Planned for future release

Add support for a self-hosted appliance on public cloud IaaS

A number of customers are for a self-hosted deployment of a virtual appliance hosted on Public Cloud IaaS as they cannot use SaaS due to data privacy consideration and do not want to go for an OVA deployment as they either have outsourced the on-p...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Lower the size of the .ova hard drive

When importing the .ova the machine disk is 1,75Tib. Even if all this space is not used up thanks to thin provisioning, it is still a bad practice to over-provision that much storage. In our case the thinning of the space is done on the storage ba...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Add Turbo MVS Licenses as an additional line in the Workload Improvements Widget

We've just had a sensitive conversation with the client where we were NOT able to give a clear count of License growth over time because we didn't have the data. Merely point in Time which was recorded by Jim. If we were able to put ACTIVE VM coun...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Allow use of VLAN ID for network matching for segmentation

Today, to verify a VM can live on another vCenter, Turbonomic checks the port group name to ensure match and that the same network is available at the destination. This idea is to match on the VLAN ID instead of the port group name string.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

Customer wants a more sophisticated Turbonomic system status page

The customer is concerned with hard outages and soft (data) outages. Wants to see this on one page. - like apple or datadog platform status page. Can we pull the details of the current System Health and System Alert pages into one cohesive page. A...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / SaaS 2 Future consideration