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Include entityID information for Delete/Suspend actions in Executed Actions exports

Currently, entityID is not included in the Executed Actions downloads for Delete and Suspend action types. The lack of this information prevents tracking of savings at a per-entity level. Without this information, our FinOps team cannot accurately...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Submitted

Add IBM Fusion HCI as a target

Currently the Hardware IBM Fusion HCI is not supported to add as a target in Turbonomic. In order to have a holistic view on the infrastructure in terms of capacity that would be really important to have.
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Submitted

Add automatic variables to Workflow content templates

Add "automatic variables" (Velocity variables, similar to $action, but maybe $turbo) to Workflow content templates that would provide: the name of the policy that fired the workflow the execution step of the policy that fired the webhook the name ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Future consideration

Creating Filtered Dashboard widgets

When creating a widget in a dashboard it is not possible to multi-select e.g. add multiple accounts or rsg's, or use regex conventions to have dynamic filtering included like we have in groups. The customer has a complex hierarchical grouping defi...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Under review

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Future consideration

Provide a means for high availability of the Turbonomic platform

As a user I would like the ability to run Turbonomic in an active/active or active/passive model, so if my primary (or any) Turbonomic instance in my environment fails, I can continue operations without putting my infrastructure and business appli...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Future consideration

If the license is exceeded, please do not automatically add new managed entities.

Even if a user adds a virtual machine and that causes the number of licenses to be exceeded, there is currently no way to restrict this on the Turbonomic product side. (As an admin, this can lead to unintended overage.) To prevent this, we would l...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Future consideration

Helm Chart for Turbonomic depolyment

Current IBM supported deployment option for Turbonomic components is via manifest yaml. For platform teams that has an automated process (like Argo CD) in place for maintaining the softwares installed in a fleet of kubernetes clusters , current op...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Future consideration

Azure Snapshots need to be discovered with options to manage via Turbonomic (delete).

Currently, Turbonomic does not have any visibility into snapshots. Snapshots cost money to end users, just like any cloud volume. A lot of times snapshots can be abandonded and forgotten, slowly costing the company money with minimal tools to capt...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Submitted

Azure Databricks support for Turbonomic

One of my clients requested to know references for resource optimization gains in Databricks solutions using Turbonomic.When researching, I found that at least two other large clients in Brazil made the same request. Is it possible to include Data...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Planned for future release