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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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I would like to be able to get from Turbo a listing of all on-prem DB servers with all of their targeted DBs.

Our DBAs would like a list of the current DBs in Turbo for several reasons. One reason is so that they can see which DBs are not in Turbo to get them added. For cloud DB servers, Turbo provides this, but for on-prem DB servers this isn't available...
about 19 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

BMO's "WAS ND - Turbo scale out" requirement

One of the teams at BMO is exploring how Turbonomic can help adjust memory for workloads running on WebSphere ND, with the goal of enabling scale-out (add new server instances). This is part of a larger rightsizing effort led by their Infrastructu...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

The old UI had a "Targets" category in the search function that was useful, but the new UI does not. Please restore the ability to search targets.

It was useful to be able to do a search on targets
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Time Zone

In PMC we have detailed time Zone, Example:Asia/Kolkata(+5:30). In Turbonomic, we have only the Time zone(Asia/Kolkata) i.e. no correspnding UTC+ time is shown. Can the time zone set in Turbonomic match the configuration option shown in PMC where ...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Turbonomic Policy engine provides easy way for set affinity to newer generations of instance types when considering same size so tool does not suggest de-modernizing from db.8g.4xl to db.6g.4xl

Newer cloud Provider instance types may have price/performance benefits that customers are seeking. Customersmay have a policy and practice of running newer instance types (database, virtual machines, ...). It would be helpful if the Turbonomic po...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Provide a mechanism to add notes to a Turbonomic generated action and the ability to mark the action as "not taken" or "delayed" and provide a reason

We often have teams who either do not believe and optimization is needed or have a business justification for not taking a recommendation currently or ever. We are currently tracking those in separate spreadsheets without the ability to provide in...
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Want a way to see cloud volume snapshots that are still connected to a VM & not flagged as wasted storage or disconnected.

AbbVie leverages snapping of AWS volumes and does not have a automated process to clean up and or remove volume snapshots still connected to volumes. They want a way to have Turbonomic identify the snapshots with these criteria's: 1. Age of snapsh...
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted

Please add the effective cost in the downloaded file for executed actions (widget)

We are seeing the effective cost in the UI, however when the report / details are downloaded to in excel format, it contains the on-demand cost rather than the effective cost.
23 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Enhance Swagger APIs to automate a few daily tasks

We are looking for programming a few reports generation and certain basic inquiries tasks on python. But we got to know existing Swagger APIs do not have oauth token creation option. Also, when checked for APIs access, locally created user is allo...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Submitted

Allow a way to view multiple account groups at once

Currently you can create an account group based on a given set of names/tags/etc. However there is not a way to create a parent level account group that contains related Account Groups that have totally different naming/tagging. This is useful whe...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted