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Policies

Enable minimum observation period for VM suspend actions

Currently there is no option to configure a minimum observation period for VM suspend actions. This means that a VM that was recently provisioned and has low utilization will be targeted for suspension.
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Enforce Resource Configuration as Multiples of Increment Values in Container Specs Policies

I would like to submit an enhancement request for Turbonomic regarding policy settings for Container Specs. Currently, Turbonomic policies allow us to define: minimum configuration, maximum configuration, and increment steps. However, it would be ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Please add the ability in the Turbonomic UI to CLONE / COPY a policy for the purposes of creating new policies.

AT&T has very complicated Policies and manually creating them has become a daunting task. They would benefit with the efficiency of creating polices by having a clone / copy feature and then simply change the 1 or 2 items in the policy rather ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Policy Manager

When creating many merge and DNP policies across environment, it becomes difficult to manage for hundreds of clusters. Superclustering requires minimum 2-3 policies to be made on a per cluster basis. Having a central dashboard detailing each clust...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

VM Redundancy and Placement Affinity during Superclustering

VM Redundancy - Customer needs a way to spread certain workloads around cluster. IE - multiple DB workloads cannot exist on the same host due to risk aversion policies internally. Turbo has no way of mapping this automatically without creating hun...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Dynamic Group selection for Merge Policies

Customer would like to see dynamic/custom groups pop up during Merge policy selection. Currently, host need to be identified using a common naming convention only and added to the merge policy. However, if more clusters are created or current clus...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Allow individual Action types to be configured for Virtual Volume Policy (and any other Policy that uses the Toggle UI construct)

When defining a Virtual Volume Policy, all of the Scaling actions are grouped under an "enable/disable" Toggle. If the Toggle is enabled, you MUST define all of the available Action types. It is not possible to have a Policy that configures ONLY e...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Virtual Volume user-defined Policy default behavior should be updated

The default behavior for User-defined Virtual Volume Policies is based on the constituent members of the related Scope Group(s). Currently, if the Scope Group(s) membership is: Empty or unknown group→ 0 options (no scale action section shown at al...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Limit policy options to targeted infrastructure types

To reduce the complexity of Policy construction, reduce the available options to show ONLY the options for currently targeted infrastructure categories. Basically, if an instance does not target on-prem assets, don't show on-prem-related options d...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Allow multi-entityType policies for Execution Mode & Schedules

Currently, Policies are restricted to a single entity type. If I want to set the Execution mode or attach a Schedule to a defined scope of resources, I must create a separate Group and Policy for each entity type. I understand the need to have dif...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

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