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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
21 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Turbonomic - Develop Official Support for AWS Outposts

Customers are increasingly using AWS Outposts within their IT infrastructure. Despite being unsupported, customers who are able to target these instances via VPC subnetting are required to add to their MVS count for licensing. We have a current IB...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 4 Under review

Better load balancing when on-prem cluster gets overutilized and note in the UI which tells the problem

Our on-premises virtualization clusters are stretched across two data centers. We aim to keep resource utilization in the clusters below 50% so that in the event of a data center failure, there are still enough resources available for all VMs. To ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Realized Savings Details - Add column - Date

In the Realized Savings Details does not have a date column both in the UI as well the Excel report. The suggestion is to add to add a new column to add the Date Information in this view
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Under review

Price Currency Globaly

Nowadays it is only possible to change the price currency in a user context. The problem with this is that some people only have ready only acess and cant change the currency settings on their own (no settings cause read only) that means all peopl...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Easily identify nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infra, masters)

Easily identify in the UI the nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infrastructure and masters).
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / UI & User Experience 1 Under review

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Under review