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IBM Turbonomic ARM

AWS accounts in CLOSED status appearing with errors in the Turbonomic target list for an AWS multi-account organization

Some AWS accounts were closed and now appear as CLOSED in AWS Organizations. However, these accounts are still showing up in Turbonomic. We need Turbonomic to hide these accounts or remove them entirely from the target list. Customer Request : BRA...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS Submitted

Expend role based control as an example for Parking Automator in Turbonomic

The PARKER_AUTOMATOR role lets users park workloads manually or automatically and view all Turbonomic charts and data. However, they cannot manage parking schedules, create policies or templates, place workloads, run plans, or execute other action...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking Submitted

Limit splash screens to Admin users

As a platform with a large number of users who are 'consumers', splash screens on the Turbonomic platform often confuse end users who're accessing it, driving a lot of questions and concerns. Can we limit the splash screens (New Version informatio...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS Submitted

Extending Sustainability Metrics in IBM Turbonomic for Kubernetes and Workload Controllers

Idea: Currently, IBM Turbonomic provides comprehensive sustainability information for virtual machines, including energy and carbon footprint data, as well as the impact of optimization actions on these metrics. However, to fully achieve our susta...
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability Submitted

Integration of Groups with Cloudability business mappings

Currently there are little to no apparent integrations of Turbonomic with Cloudability. One feature that would be of high priority is to integrate "business mappings" that are leveraged in cloudability to "groups" used to group resources in Turbon...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Submitted

Snapshots Optimization - Detect orphaned snapshots not actively tied to production workloads

Problem Statement: Cloud environments often accumulate orphaned or long‑running snapshots that exceed their intended retention periods. These snapshots are frequently forgotten, unmanaged, and continue to incur storage costs. Today, detecting and ...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Submitted

Add optimization support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters(NC2) on AWS

Hi, Please add optimization support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters(NC2) on AWS. https://www.nutanixbible.com/10a-book-of-nutanix-clusters-aws.html
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS Submitted

Make it possible to read the openIdClientSecret from a K8s secret instead of hardcoded in the xl-release.

Hi, When connecting Turbonomic to e.g. Okta with OIDC the settings look like this: apiVersion: charts.helm.k8s.io/v1alpha1kind: Xlmetadata: name: xl-releasespec: properties: api: openIdEnabled: true openIdClients: okta openIdClientId: xxxxxxxxxh1x...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security Submitted

Support Turbonomic IAM Role Authentication Without Customer‑Side OIDC Requirement

Problem Statement In large, regulated enterprise environments: • Adding or approving external OIDC identity providers in AWS accounts is restricted • Identity provider URLs embedded in IAM trust policies require extensive security review • Ente...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security Submitted

Would be valuable if Turbonomic can identify and build a group of Azure disks that are attached to a VM at the portal level but not configured or mounted inside the OS.

This would be valuable to help identify wasted volumes. Currently this is a manual and time consuming process.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

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