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Public Cloud IaaS

Snapshots Optimization - Detect orphaned snapshots not actively tied to production workloads

Problem Statement: Cloud environments often accumulate orphaned or long‑running snapshots that exceed their intended retention periods. These snapshots are frequently forgotten, unmanaged, and continue to incur storage costs. Today, detecting and ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Planned for future release

Delete actions, such as unnecessary snapshots and virtual NICs

I would like you to present actions to reduce waste other than VMs, Volumes, and DBs. I want to centrally manage wasted resources with Turbonomic.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Planned for future release

Add support for L40S, H100 and H200 GPU types (to align with watsonx)

Turbonomic allows optimization of GPUs listed here in documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.18.x?topic=resources-supported-aws-ec2-instance-types However, none of these GPUs are supported by IBM watsonx.ai. The AI platform supports NVI...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Planned for future release

Turbonomic - Develop or confirm official support of AWS Outpost

Customers are increasingly using on-premises or edge environments that are provided by public cloud service providers. AWS Outposts are currently being used in the US Federal government. Turbonomic doesn't specifically indicate supportability for ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Planned for future release

Honda - Turbonomic to enable AWS G6e & P5 EC2 instances with NVIDIA L40S & H100 GPUs

Honda Canada is in the process of deploying Turbonomic self-hosted on AWS EKS to optimize AWS & Azure workloads including GPUs, and we need to enable Turbonomic’s support for AWS GPU instance types. Honda is currently using the following AWS E...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Planned for future release

Allow to be build a policy to generate VM delete action for VM being idle for a defined number of days or VM delete actions or at least a list of VMs probably no longer used (minimal CPU usage, no net

Based on Idea TURBO-I-450 (measure and display days a VM is being idle) please allow to set a policy to generate delete actions for VMs being idle for x days. In addition to that, allow to set a policy as it is available with all the cloud optimiz...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) / Public Cloud IaaS Planned for future release

GPU optimization for Windows OS environment on Azure

Now, Turbonomic support GPU optimization for Linux OS environment on ver 8.13.4. But, Customer require support GPU optimization for Windows OS environment, because Azure is often Windows OS use (CAD, VDI etc). Ex) Azure VDI Instance GPU supported ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Planned for future release

Predictive analysis for migration window when converting back from ST1 to GP volumes in AWS.

When executing Turbo scaling actions to move volumes for savings after peak production hours (ex, after 5pm), the time it takes AWS to complete the migration has little impact. However, when the reverse is true for move actions of volumes for perf...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Planned for future release

Action Persistence score

The Turbonomic ideal is that Customers trust our actions – and automate so that those Cloud VM scale actions happen automatically – perhaps every night. This is NOT what happens in the real world. Customers or App Teams have problems either trusti...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Planned for future release

Volumes - Show Volume ID in the recommendation screens

Sometimes we have multiple volumes with the same text in the name field and it hard to differentiate which one is being referenced in the recommendations screen. I see this in multiple areas of Turbonomic where Volume ID isn't shown on the recomme...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Planned for future release