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Include AWS Lambda Functions with detailed metadata in Resource Inventory

We would like to request the inclusion of AWS Lambda functions in the Cloudability Resource Inventory, along with relevant metadata such as runtime version, memory size, timeout configuration and associated tags. This would enable improved visibil...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Delivered

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

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...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Delivered

Saving Templates and Sharing Filters for Resource Inventory

USCIS customers find resource inventory useful but must recreate all filters each time they access this section. They would like the ability to save filter configurations as templates and share them with other users in their organization, similar ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 Delivered

Expand the AWS Service Coverage in Cloudability Resource Inventory for Broader FinOps Visibility

Currently in Cloudability , the Resource Inventory supports a limited set of AWS Services (EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, RedShift). Expanding support to include additional AWS services eg lambda , DynamoDB and others ) would provide us with more comprehensiv...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Resource Inventory 2 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 4 Delivered