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Plan function, moving VMs from Vmware onprem to Openshift Virtualization

We have a Strategic customer (already Turbonomic customer) in Italy, with a strong deadline (end of 2026) to migrate Vmware -> RH openshift virt.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Planned for future release

Account for hosts in maintenance mode in Plan function

I have a group of VMs spread out across multiple racks-- let's say 100 providers. During host consolidation efforts, we've placed several of the hosts across the racks in maintenance mode --let's say we put 20 in maintenance mode. When you scope t...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Future consideration

Running a plan to resize node pool SKU in kubernetes against current work loads to better optimize the SKU that is running in that specific node pool

I would like to be able to run a plan against a specific node pool in a kubernetes cluster. When the plan is complete, it would provide you a recommended SKU to change the node pool to (rather build a new node pool using a different sized SKU) bas...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Submitted

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time.

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time. If showing for all VM is too hard due to resource perspective, it is ok to run as "Plan" basis and show the result in a screen.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Future consideration

Sandbox Testing for Turbonomic Polcies

It would be useful to be able to experiment with different policy settings and see their impact quickly and in an isolated space separate from the live recommendations space. One thing I have been struggling with has been making a policy change, t...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Future consideration

Plan over Plan

This idea has been kicking round for at least 5 years. I'm not the first one to think of it, but I think now is the time to implement. A plan is a market + {set of changes} and produces a new plan. When running a plan, the main market is always th...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Submitted

Add cluster data to Turbo Plans

Currently the plans in Turbo show host level. I would benefit from seeing cluster level information in the plans.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Future consideration

Azure Savings Plan commitment planning

I would like to have the ability to create plans for Azure Savings Plan commitments based on my current workloads not covered by reserved instances that are running hourly pay go rates.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Future consideration

Cloud Repatriation Scenario - Migrating from Public Cloud to On-Prem

Customers are looking for solutions to move away their workloads from Public Cloud to On-Prem due to lock-in and cost related issues. There are no ready to use tools available to do this assessment, hence most of the time it is manual and based on...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning

Turbonomic could be enhanced with predictions based on trends and seasonal effects

Currently Turbonomic bases its recommendations/actions on historical data, you can select which previous period to consider, looking at long-term utilitization or short-term utilization to base the actions on. There probably is a limited period ov...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning