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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Creating Filtered Dashboard widgets

When creating a widget in a dashboard it is not possible to multi-select e.g. add multiple accounts or rsg's, or use regex conventions to have dynamic filtering included like we have in groups. The customer has a complex hierarchical grouping defi...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Under review

Be able to set min/max number of instances in an AWS EC2 ASG

My customer would like to be able to set min/max number of instances in an EC2 ASG and also set different configurations depending on the time of the day. For example, at 9am set minimum number of instances to 30; at 10am set it to 40; at 11am set...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking Under review

Expose the Parking Savings and ROI metrics in the Turbonomic Parking Workloads UI and Reports

We are actively using the Turbonomic Parking policy to automatically start and stop workloads based on the schedules for example non production environments during the off hours . The policy is functioning correctly and workloads are being parked ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking 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 ...

Support for 'Dell Powerflex' & "NetApp Solifire' storage as Target in Turbonomic

We are planning to migrate our VMs (Vcenter) from solidfire to powerflex storage (storage vmotion only). This is a potential multi year long project of migrating PBs of data from one storage to other. We would to like to present TBN/Turbonomic as ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM Under review

Populate Savings Values for Parked VMs in Exports

When exporting the Executed Actions list, the "Savings" or "Impact" columns for Park actions are currently empty or null. While the UI may show the state of the VM, the financial impact of those parking actions is missing from the exported data. S...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Under review

Enable Instance ID Search in the "Park" Section

The "Park" section of the Turbonomic UI currently limits searches to the "Name" attribute. In many AWS/Azure environments, it is common to have multiple VMs with the same name (e.g., "Web-Server-Prod"), making it difficult to identify the specific...
26 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Under review

Allow reporting by GCP Tag (as they are project-level concept)

Ingest to Turbonomic and allow reporting by GCP Tag (as they are project-level concept). This will allow for savings tracking per project (group of projects) owner (App, feature, product, etc.) as well as environment, cost center etc.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting Under review

Azure Arc workloads.

Hello Team, I kindly request the inclusion of Azure Arc resources to be managed as part of the Parking feature. This addition would enable us to extend the usage of Parking to our on-premise environments as well as other cloud service providers. T...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking Under review

Would like to see parent Azure service principal in each of the Azure subscriptions (children) in the Related targets tab

Currently, the Azure service principal creates child targets for each subscription that it can discover in the Turbonomic target configuration page. When you click on ellipses on right, next to the subscription to view it, then click on the Relate...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Under review