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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

It takes around 5 seconds without indicator to load assigned groups for external user created through Frontdoor.

It's very confusing when we select a user and see no group. If we wait for a while then groups appears...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed

To have a builtin integration to create/update Azure tags when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed.

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Turbonomic support for IBM Cloud Object Storage (On-Premises)

We request Turbonomic to support IBM Cloud Object Storage (On-Premises) as a storage optimization target. We would like to monitor the capacity and the actual usage of the storage and be able to take optimization actions as needed.

Consider maximum utilization during POD startup in addition percentile value for the given observation period for memory limit scaling to prevent out-of-memory kills during POD startup

Some POD have a utilization peak during startup. The percentile-based approach may lead to not considering this peak or if the POD isn't restarted during the observation period this peak is not considered. Turbonomic may recommend to scale down th...

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 (...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

enable 'resize when powered off' to work with public cloud vm's

Anyone with public cloud vm's where they want to create an automation policy that executes only when a said vm is idle
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Providing a model in ThoughtSpot to manage cloud billing data

Providing a model in ThoughtSpot to manage cloud billing data Currently, it’s not possible to create reports in ThoughtSpot based on cloud billing data, as there is no model provided for it.(For example, it's not possible to create a report like "...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Submitted

If license usage is about to exceed the limit, for example, over 80%. it should trigger an alert.

With the current licensing system, users won’t notice if the license limit has been exceeded until they try to register a new target. It would be helpful to have a feature that automatically sends a notification—via email, Slack, etc.—when license...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted