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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Enforce consistency across Automation Workflow Policy definitions

There is a lack of consistency across Policies when defining Automation workflows. For example, when creating a Database policy, there are four categories of workflow: Cloud DB scale (no toggle) Database suspend actions Database reconfiguration ac...
about 10 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

New policy setting to control moveSucceedRecordExpiredSeconds

We want to be able let the client say "take actions more quickly in this cluster, or for these VMs." Currently, we can adjust moveSucceedRecordExpiredSeconds, but this is a global configuration option and only applies to on-prem Move actions. The ...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Account for hosts in maintenance mode in Plan function

I have a group of VMs spread out across multiple racks-- let's say 100 providers. During host consolidation efforts, we've placed several of the hosts across the racks in maintenance mode --let's say we put 20 in maintenance mode. When you scope t...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Submitted

Real-Time AI-Powered Application Performance and Resource Optimization Dashboard with Predictive Capacity Planning for IBM Turbonomic ARM

I propose adding a Real-Time AI-Powered Application Performance and Resource Optimization Dashboard with Predictive Capacity Planning to IBM Turbonomic ARM to help organizations gain deeper visibility into application performance, infrastructure u...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases Submitted

Enable Cloud VM scaling constraints based on Resource config rather than Instance type

As a Turbo admin, I'd like to be able to configure a Policy that restricts a group of VMs to Instance types with specific resource configurations. I don't want to select specific instance types, but rather specify configuration parameters, much li...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Plan over Plan

This idea has been kicking round for at least 5 years. I'm not the first one to think of it, but I think now is the time to implement. A plan is a market + {set of changes} and produces a new plan. When running a plan, the main market is always th...
8 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Submitted

Limit policy options to targeted infrastructure types

To reduce the complexity of Policy construction, reduce the available options to show ONLY the options for currently targeted infrastructure categories. Basically, if an instance does not target on-prem assets, don't show on-prem-related options d...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

When visiting the Settings|Policies page, load ONLY user-defined policies by default

Currently, when a user visits the Settings|Policies page, ALL policies are loaded, which results in a long delay before being able to interact with the datagrid. To optimize the load time, I suggest loading ONLY the user-defined policies (and mayb...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted

Allow multi-entityType policies for Execution Mode & Schedules

Currently, Policies are restricted to a single entity type. If I want to set the Execution mode or attach a Schedule to a defined scope of resources, I must create a separate Group and Policy for each entity type. I understand the need to have dif...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies Submitted

Add regex to Account name filter for Group creation

Currently, when you create a Group and use the Account Name filter, you're presented with a checkbox list for selecting specific Accounts. This approach does not scale and does not support creation of a dynamic group that discovers newly added acc...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted