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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Enable choose between savings/performance for Volume and Database policies

We can't choose at Volume or Database policies savings actions or performance actions. You need to execute everything or nothing. The customers sometimes choose to execute automatically only savings and vice versa.
27 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Under review

Turbonomic's parking functionality issue for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot)

We are working with the ITAU customer who is experiencing performance issues with the parking functionality in Turbonomic for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot).The issue is that Turbonomic's current parking behavior t...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Add a policy to block VDIs or a method to clearly distinguish them

Turbonomic does not support scale actions for Azure VDIs, as documented. Based on the performance data and Azure Advisor Recommendations, I expected a scale-down for a VM. However, Turbonomic displays these VDIs as regular VMs in the Supply Chain ...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Include- for Windows OS (Pagefile) utilization in your RAM sizing . Also in the Linux OS space (Swap usage) - "RAM sizing , stack-improvement"

When I review size down actions related to a VM running Windows OS / RAM usage I find that I disagree with some of those size down actions b/c they don't factor in Page file usage isn't factored into this decision . A hypothetical example of this ...

Parking feature support for ARO clusters

Parking feature support for ARO clusters: currently, it is only included in the roadmap for AKS clusters. Bradesco is one of the largest banks in Brazil, and Azure is their main cloud service provider, with many applications running on ARO clusters.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

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.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Dynamically identify root volumes

Dynamically identify root volumes in order for us to exclude root volumes from policies This will allow us to filter out root volumes from some volume scaling actions. We want to be able to use the filter option in the group creation wizard to sco...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

IBM Cloud Rightsizing Support for VPC and Classic in Turbonomic

This proposal introduces advanced IBM Cloud-specific capabilities within Apptio Cloudability to enable automated rightsizing recommendations for both VPC-based and Classic infrastructure environments. Key Capabilities: - Full IBM Cloud Integration...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review