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On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network)

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Add a column on the "List of Virtual Macines" view to show the hostname of the host where each VM is running on

This is particular important for on-premise environment where we need to see the VM-to-Host mapping (true for both VMWare and Power VM)
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Better load balancing when on-prem cluster gets overutilized and note in the UI which tells the problem

Our on-premises virtualization clusters are stretched across two data centers. We aim to keep resource utilization in the clusters below 50% so that in the event of a data center failure, there are still enough resources available for all VMs. To ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Future consideration

Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

More robust scheduling options for workflows

Please look into expanding the scheduling options for automation workflows and parking workflows. I think this would be extremely beneficial. Right now, I have a use case where we have certain servers that stay off until they are needed, such as c...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

VVOL volumes are not providing data to Turbonomic. So the data cannot be stitched.

A customer with a vcenter target utilizing Pure Storage is missing storage capacity and usage information (storage access IOPS / latency) in Turbo for some VMs, but are getting those metrics for other VMs discovered from the same vCenter target , ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Add datacenter, target, and storage cluster to Delete action export

As a user of Turbonomic I would like the vCenter datacenter, Turbonomic target name (vCenter name),and vCenter storage cluster name added to the the action center export for Delete actions, so that I can better understand where I am reclaiming sto...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Reflect host provision actions in the "Host Optimization Improvement" widget

In contrast to host suspension actions the "Host Optimization Improvement" widget does reflect host provisioning actions (see attached screenshot). According to engineering the reason is that the real-time market does not generate move actions bef...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Action Center Proof-UI: Better explaining reasons for Turbonomic's resource decisions, especially cluster scaling

If Turbonomic generates host provision actions the risk listed in the pending actions widget or in the action center is e.g. named "Clone <host name> on cloned ...". This is not the risk why Turbonomic has decided for a cluster scaling. The ...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Add support for vSAN Witness host

Implementing vSAN Stretched Clusters in a VMware vSphere environment requires setting up a witness host storing all meta data but hosting no VMs and acting as a quorum in a split brain situation (see https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-stretched...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

When we scope to a group of VMs, we need a view/report to show all the VM Names, and the Name of the Host they are running on.

When we scope to a group of VMs, we need a view/report to show all the VM Names, and the Name of the Host which each VM is running on. One way to do this is to add the host name column on the "List of Virtual Machines" tab view. It would be nice i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration