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Database Server Max Observation Period set to 90 days

We have Max Observation Period of 90 days for Virtual Machine and Volume. We are expecting the same max 90 days observation period for Database Server too. Application Team wants to see the utilization through 90 days to decide on the scaling reco...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Product Feature Proposal: GCP DBaaS Support

Objective: Enhance IBM Turbonomic's capabilities to include automated optimization for GCP's PaaS database services, such as Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Bigtable, Firestore, and Memorystore. Rationale: Diverse PaaS Database Offerings ...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 7 Future consideration

Expanded Multi-Channel Notification Support for Parking and System Events in Turbonomic

Hi Team, It would be very beneficial to add enhanced user notification options in Turbonomic, especially for parking-related events and actions. Ideally, users should be able to configure notifications for these actions through multiple channels s...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

Capability for adding Targets in Google Cloud Platform - CloudSQL/BigTable etc

In the current versions of Turbonomic, there is no capability for finding Google Cloud Platform - Cloud SQL and other databases as targets. Its a high time as many of our customers are adopting to GCP.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 2 Future consideration

Allow constraints based on the $$ savings of an action

It's helpful to have a special workflow for actions that save more money, so they get a different automation-schedule or attention or priority. The Turbonomic 'Action Center' lets you filter actions by savings but doesn't start a new process. To m...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic Policy engine provides easy way for set affinity to newer generations of instance types when considering same size so tool does not suggest de-modernizing from db.8g.4xl to db.6g.4xl

Newer cloud Provider instance types may have price/performance benefits that customers are seeking. Customersmay have a policy and practice of running newer instance types (database, virtual machines, ...). It would be helpful if the Turbonomic po...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic (Cloud) integration with Microsoft Azure Client/Custom Policies

We define policies in Microsoft Azure to provide subscription management for Virtual Machine size limitations. Turbonomic cannot currently read custom Azure policy and will therefore recommend, and attempt, to resize certain VM sizes. These Turbon...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Direct action scheduling - Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule.

Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule. Direct scheduling should override any execution schedule at policy level until the action has been successfully executed. This would al...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Actions for Cloud SQL on GCP

Hello friends. A client migrated part of their applications from Azure to GCP. After migration, the client applied a series of cost-saving actions, but they missed actions for PaaS databases on GCP, actions that they had on Azure. My suggestion/re...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration