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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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AWS EMR Cluster Support and handling

Turbo does not inherently recognize this particular type of device (EMR Cluster) as a “special handling” instance; in effect it sees a list of instances that can be optimized. Without scaling these devices concurrently/consistently, the cluster wi...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Submitted

Container Platform Resize vCPU & vMem Reclaim Amounts

Similar to VMs in VMWare systems pending actions view show the Resize vCPU & cMEM Reclaim amounts, it would be useful to show similarly for Container Platforms same total Reclaim amounts when demonstrating the potential goodness of doing Conta...

Turbonomic - Spot VMs Parking Support

Itaú Bank operates a large number of Spot Instances in their DEV/QA environments. Previously, they used an AWS Lambda function to park both Spot and regular EC2 instances but we are now migrating this functionality to Turbonomic. However, the inab...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Simultaneous Execution Limits per Policy - Allow setting of number of parallel executions at a policy level

This is very useful in limiting the number of actions kicked off under the same schedule at the same time. Right now all actions which the policy applies to will kick off at the same time. This means that multiple members of the same service clust...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Turbonomic could be enhanced with predictions based on trends and seasonal effects

Currently Turbonomic bases its recommendations/actions on historical data, you can select which previous period to consider, looking at long-term utilitization or short-term utilization to base the actions on. There probably is a limited period ov...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Submitted

Create application map (Business App) based on Accounts

Customer is splitting their apps in different MS Azure Subscriptions. These MS Azure Subscriptions are visible in Turbonpomic as Accounts.To create an application map based on the resources in an account, currently each entity type (vm, disk, db, ...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Enhancing the Turbonomic Action Center for Better User Visibility and Efficiency

The Current Action Center Tab in IBM Turbonomic provides valuable recommendations but users often face challenges in tracking the execution status , prioritizing actions and acting quickly on large volumes of recommendations . These enhancements a...
24 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Ability to register any message or URL path within SaaS

A feature is needed that allows administrators to customize displays so users can receive notifications or information that administrators want to convey when they log into the SaaS site. For example, if resource operation status or cost informati...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Please change numerical fields in data downloads to be formatted as number on downloads

Hi IBM, I've noticed that when downloading any data from Turbonomic the csv or excel that is extracted does not format numerical data in a number format within csv/excel. Please can the scripting be changed on the download/extract function to form...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Submitted

Direct action scheduling - Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule.

Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule. Direct scheduling should override any execution schedule at policy level until the action has been successfully executed. This would al...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted