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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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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...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

able to see Categories from Nutanix Acropolis

Be able to see Categories from Nutanix Acropolis so you can build groups via the categories
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Support for AWS Spot Instance Advisor

Turbonomic could use tighter integration with AWS Spot Instance Advisor, which recommends spot instances and spot instance usage optimizations for performance and cost, similar to Turbonomic with other instance types. While Turbonomic is aware of ...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Ability to update Turbonomic via the UI

If we are able to provide the customers ability to update Turbonomic via the UI to provide a more seamless experience and reduce the tasks the customer needs to ssh to the instance/access the backend at all.
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Dismiss informational Reminders

There is not a way currently to permanently dismiss informational alerts. Currently each person gets a prompt about some billing data not being available, even though the billing families in question aren't relevant to the users or the Turbonomic ...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Suspend actions for On-Premisses VMs

After the release version 8.16.6, the new action Suspend is GA (https://ibmdocs-test.dcs.ibm.com/docs/en/SSFV9Z_test?topic=cloud-suspend-actions-vms) but just for Cloud VMs. We should expand to VMware too.

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...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

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...
9 days 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...
10 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Submitted