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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

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

ApptioBI report filter add scroll bar

As a builder of ApptioBI reports, I find that there are often many filters needed. Sometimes too many for the screen to show all at once. It is not obvious to most of my users that some of these are therefore hidden, nor how to reach those additio...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Delivered

Enable hyperlinks in text boxes in Apptio BI reports

Problem:We use text boxes in our Apptio BI reports to include links to documentation, FAQs and related reports the user may find helpful. Right now I can only add those URLs as plain text. The user needs to higlight, copy and paste into the browse...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 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

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

Display Values Directly on Treemap Visualization in Apptio BI

In the Treemap visualization in Apptio BI, the values are only visible when we hover over individual sections. This is inconvenient, especially when we need to capture or share the chart. It would be more effective if the values were displayed dir...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Delivered