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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Configure Turbonomic through Terrafrom

Our credit card client intends to configure their all resources through IaC approach (Terraform ) . They want to configure terraform settings through Terraform such as Parking policy etc. Now Terraform provider supports some resource scaling throu...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted

Support GCP AlloyDB

Please support GCP AlloyDB, which is a competitor to AWS RDS.
7 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS Future consideration

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

Turbonomic and Karpenter Integration

With the new InPlace Pod Resize from 1.33+ versions, Turbonomic can change resources without trigger a pod restart. When customers are using Karpenter they can leverage cluster management to Karpenter and use consolidation, which restore back the ...

Integrated open-source packages into ICR for streamlined updates ++ fresh pre-check script

Many organizations including specific customers in FSM have firewall policies blacklisting repositories that are required for Turbonomic self-hosted upgrades. Integrating these packages into ICR so there is a native solution to pulling these for u...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Submitted

Considering Pending Pods in Node PROVISION Actions

Currently, Turbonomic does not consider pending pods when generating PROVISION actions for worker nodes, unlike the autoscaler. A large bank in Brazil would like to request a new feature for Turbonomic to take pending pods into account when genera...

More options with regards to Parking schedules

In our current use of Parking schedules, we currently define a Weekly schedule for workloads. We could gain greater savings if there was an option for a bi-weekly or 4-week schedule definition. We have processes (patching, security scans, etc.) th...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking Under review

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

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

Kerberos Auth for vcenter targets

Need to use higher level of security for authenticating to esxi/vcenter using Kerberos, for security project that is currently underway.
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security Under review