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Policies when doing Initial Placement should include VM Dynamic Filter Logic

When using the Place/Initial Placement functionality, part of the process is selecting Placement or Do Not Place Policies in addition to the Scope. When selecting a VM template and selecting a Place Policy that has Dynamic criteria (e.g. if a VM h...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

Enable Non-Team Members to Manage Team Rosters in TargetProcess

Current Limitation: In TargetProcess, only users who are members of a team and have the appropriate permissions can manage that team’s roster. This restriction poses a challenge for roles such as Release Train Engineers (RTEs), who are responsible...
4 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Delivered

Allow for managing VM-to-VM anti/affinity rules directly in Turbonomic

As a user I would like the ability to create/modify/delete VM-to-VM affinity/anti-affinity placement policies, so that I do not have to create/modify/delete these rules in vCenter.

Disable All Actions Switch under Global Default Policies must include Parking Actions. Currently does not.

People might assume that the Global Defaults Disable All Actions switch might work on Parking actions. And then during a cutover, machines would be turned off by accident causing massive disruption. EITHER this switch should INCLUDE parking action...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

Prevent merge policies to be automatically deleted when one scoped member of the policy (host, network, storage, etc) is deleted or removed.

When creating merge policies, if for example, a cluster merge policy contains hostCluster1, hostCluster2 and hostCluster3, and one of those hostCluster is removed from vCenter or from Turbo, the merge police gets automatically deleted, so the cust...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

Parking policies - Needs the ability to show the selected Accounts and Resource Groups when going into Edit

When a Parking policy has been created and a user wants to go in and edit the policy, or even check what has been selected, if there are any significant numbers of accounts or resource groups then it is a laborious task to have to search through t...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Delivered

Cancel a running data validation report

When a data validation report is executed, there is no option to either pause or cancel it. There have been times when a validation querying large set of data was kicked off unintentionally, and it takes more than 24 hours to complete. We are aski...
6 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 1 Delivered

vm automation policies when vm state is idle - include actions also against any attached volumes

All public cloud scale events require downtime. Downtime involves stopping any services running on these IaaS instances during an action execution activity. If a vm has a park schedule or maintenance window, then this is the ideal time to resize (...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 8 Delivered

parking filters should include Azure Synapse Analytics workspace.

An azure synapse analytics workspace business owner agreed to park the related VMs for that workspace but the Turbo Parker can't just select those machines based on workspace. The workaround is to tag those VMs with the workspace (or other tag). T...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 4 Delivered

Allow for successful VM Move actions when resource pool doesn't exist in destination cluster

When creating superclusters, Cluster A has a Resource Pool named ResourcePoolA and ClusterB has a Resource Pool only by the name of ResourcePoolB. Turbonomic will generate move actions from hosts in ClusterA to hosts in ClusterB, and those move ac...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered