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IBM Turbonomic ARM

AI Utilization(Turbonomic Assistant) -Simpler policy settings.

It would be ideal if the settings of policies could be changed on the Turbonomic site (such as the Turbonomic Assistant) by giving instructions (questions or natural language). Policy settings tend to become complicated because there are multiple ...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS Submitted

I want flexible recommendations to be presented in conversations with AI.

On the Turbonomic website (such as Turbonomic Assistant), I would like AI to provide flexible suggestions in response to inquiries or prompts about system characteristics or risk situations during conversations with AI.
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS Submitted

Sandbox Testing for Turbonomic Polcies

It would be useful to be able to experiment with different policy settings and see their impact quickly and in an isolated space separate from the live recommendations space. One thing I have been struggling with has been making a policy change, t...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning Submitted

Remember the selected 'Items per page:' settings across screens/sessions

Turbonomic should remember the selected 'Items per page:' settings across screens/sessions. As per the attached screenshot, when you select a setting different from the default, as soon as you navigate to a different screen, the setting is lost, r...
about 18 hours ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience Submitted

Add automatic variables to Workflow content templates

Add "automatic variables" (Velocity variables, similar to $action, but maybe $turbo) to Workflow content templates that would provide: the name of the policy that fired the workflow the execution step of the policy that fired the webhook the name ...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other Submitted

Visualization and Optimization of Oracle PDB Resources

(This is a duplicate to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TURBO-I-1478 , to make this idea visible to the customer as well.) Customer is running on-prem instances of Oracle, which has CDB and PDB (Multitenant Architecture.) We would like to request the ...

Parking feature for OCI

Since we now have OCI resource optimization in place, it would be of great value to leverage the parking feature for VMs and databases in OCI as well.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking Planned for future release

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...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability Future consideration

Add a direct search endpoint for LDAP groups

Add a way to directly search for an LDAP group. LDAP groups are managed via the /users/ldap/groups endpoint. GET /users/ldap/groups returns a list of all LDAP groups, but there is no way to search for a specific group. Searching is available for o...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs Submitted
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In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.