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Turbo storing historical resource data for clusters and namespaces that are no longer present.

I would like to propose an enhancement to Turbonomic around the retention and visibility of historical resource data for Kubernetes clusters and namespaces that have been deleted or are no longer present in the cluster. In customer environments, i...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs Future consideration

Account for hosts in maintenance mode in Plan function

I have a group of VMs spread out across multiple racks-- let's say 100 providers. During host consolidation efforts, we've placed several of the hosts across the racks in maintenance mode --let's say we put 20 in maintenance mode. When you scope t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Future consideration

Remember the selected 'Items per page:' settings across screens/sessions

Turbonomic should remember the selected 'Items per page:' settings across screens/sessions. As per the attached screenshot, when you select a setting different from the default, as soon as you navigate to a different screen, the setting is lost, r...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Future consideration

Sandbox Testing for Turbonomic Polcies

It would be useful to be able to experiment with different policy settings and see their impact quickly and in an isolated space separate from the live recommendations space. One thing I have been struggling with has been making a policy change, t...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Future consideration

Add automatic variables to Workflow content templates

Add "automatic variables" (Velocity variables, similar to $action, but maybe $turbo) to Workflow content templates that would provide: the name of the policy that fired the workflow the execution step of the policy that fired the webhook the name ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Future consideration

Add search filter "Cloud tier" or "Instance type" for Database Server entities

On the Search page, much like Virtual Machines already support, I'd like to be able to filter my Database Servers by their compute "Instance type". "Instance type == db.t3.large" "Instance type == GP_Gen5_4" for examples. There already exists a "S...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Future consideration

Taken-On-Prem-Resize-Actions-Summary-by-Cluster should be available in UI Dashboard

Show benefits of onboarding on-prem VMs resize actions executed, and should be available out of the box in the UI Dashboard. Secondly a similar dashboard could be implemented for Kubernetes actions too, separately. Both of these would be more valu...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Future consideration

Uniform Data in api/v3/markets/Market/actions for "Delete Volume"

Hi there, When retrieving execution details for VM, Database, and Volume scaling actions, the API correctly returns the unique Resource IDs, AWS Account IDs, and Regions. However, when retrieving details for "Delete Volume" actions, this critical ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting Future consideration

Adding Oracle Alloy as a supported environment

I would like to request Turbonomic support for Oracle Alloy.My customer plans to move a part of their workload to Oracle Alloy, and there is a strong request for Turbonomic's support for Oracle Alloy. https://www.oracle.com/cloud/alloy/ They would...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Future consideration

Extending Sustainability Metrics in IBM Turbonomic for Kubernetes and Workload Controllers

Idea: Currently, IBM Turbonomic provides comprehensive sustainability information for virtual machines, including energy and carbon footprint data, as well as the impact of optimization actions on these metrics. However, to fully achieve our susta...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability Future consideration