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In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.

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

Request for Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Not under consideration

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
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Submitted

Turbonomic's parking functionality issue for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot)

We are working with the ITAU customer who is experiencing performance issues with the parking functionality in Turbonomic for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot).The issue is that Turbonomic's current parking behavior t...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS

Support Action Generation for GCP Managed Instance Groups (MIGs) in Turbonomic

Currently, Turbonomic does not generate actions for virtual machines (VMs) that are part of a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Managed Instance Group (MIG), unless a specific probe property is manually enabled (gcp.mig.vm.action.enabled). Even when ena...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS

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...
28 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...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Submitted

support for aws china region and azure china region

csm is proposing Turbonomic to customer MCDONALDS-CN together with seller and tech sales team. customer is satisfied with the POC result against their VMware and K8S environment, wish Turbonomic can support their public cloud providers(Azure China...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Future consideration

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