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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 ...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Submitted

Add optimization support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters(NC2) on AWS

Hi, Please add optimization support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters(NC2) on AWS. https://www.nutanixbible.com/10a-book-of-nutanix-clusters-aws.html
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Submitted

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...
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Under review

Consider "Billable transactions" for action on Azure Managed Disks

If you resize a Azure disk from Premium SSD (P) to Standard SSD (E), initially, lower costs, but at Standard family (E) you are charged for operations too ( https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurestorageblog/cost-saving-with-standard-ssd-bi...
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Under review

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...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Under review

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...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Planned for future release

Feature Enhancement Request: Turbonomic vCore Optimization Visibility

Proposed Enhancement Enhance the Turbonomic UI and reporting tools to include: vCore Delta Metrics Show the number of vCores added or removed per optimization action. Include timestamps and affected VM identifiers. Historical Tracking Maintain a l...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Future consideration

Feature Enhancement Request: VM Extension-Based Filtering, Search, and Grouping

Benefits Operational Efficiency: Quickly identify and remediate VMs with missing or failed extensions. Compliance & Monitoring: Ensure all VMs meet required extension configurations. Automation Support: Enable scripting and automation based on...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Future consideration

Dynamically identify root volumes

Dynamically identify root volumes in order for us to exclude root volumes from policies This will allow us to filter out root volumes from some volume scaling actions. We want to be able to use the filter option in the group creation wizard to sco...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Future consideration

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