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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Provide a mechanism to add notes to a Turbonomic generated action and the ability to mark the action as "not taken" or "delayed" and provide a reason

We often have teams who either do not believe and optimization is needed or have a business justification for not taking a recommendation currently or ever. We are currently tracking those in separate spreadsheets without the ability to provide in...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

Turbonomic's parking functionality issue for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot)

We are working with the ITAU customer who is experiencing performance issues with the parking functionality in Turbonomic for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot).The issue is that Turbonomic's current parking behavior t...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Kubernetes HPA Integration

Turbonomic integration with HPA to ingest memory/CPU metrics and provide recommendations on what to set optimal metrics settings to. Additionally, action generation using recommended settings to scale number of container pods to optimal configurat...

vGPU Optimization & Utilization Metrics

My customers have a GPU pool for their VMs and Containers.They'd like to see the "move" or "placement" recommendations for the VMs that are using vGPU Resources.
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Needs more information

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

Parking Support for Openshift Machines managed by MachineSets

Customers run OpenShift on top of CSP's like AWS, and would therefore benefit from both the efficiency and cost savings enabled by Turbonomic's parking functionality.
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Under review

Want a way to see cloud volume snapshots that are still connected to a VM & not flagged as wasted storage or disconnected.

AbbVie leverages snapping of AWS volumes and does not have a automated process to clean up and or remove volume snapshots still connected to volumes. They want a way to have Turbonomic identify the snapshots with these criteria's: 1. Age of snapsh...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Submitted

Parking feature support for ARO clusters

Parking feature support for ARO clusters: currently, it is only included in the roadmap for AKS clusters. Bradesco is one of the largest banks in Brazil, and Azure is their main cloud service provider, with many applications running on ARO clusters.
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review

IBM Cloud Rightsizing Support for VPC and Classic in Turbonomic

This proposal introduces advanced IBM Cloud-specific capabilities within Apptio Cloudability to enable automated rightsizing recommendations for both VPC-based and Classic infrastructure environments. Key Capabilities: - Full IBM Cloud Integration...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Add support for Azure Reservation Azure SQL

Turbonomic is currently supporting Azure Virtual Machine Reservations ensuring that the existing reservation portfolio is optimally utilized. You can also buy Azure SQL RI's. Thus, please add support for reservations/reserved instances for other s...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review