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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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GitOps integration: support for bitbucket+ArgoCD

We are starting a Turbonomic deployment in Intesa Sanpaolo; they asked for integration with their GitOps process to apply changes in RHOCP clusters; Turbonomic actions related to RHOCP target should be applied to their bitbucket repository instead...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Under review

Turbonomic - Develop Official Support for AWS Outposts

Customers are increasingly using AWS Outposts within their IT infrastructure. Despite being unsupported, customers who are able to target these instances via VPC subnetting are required to add to their MVS count for licensing. We have a current IB...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 4 Under review

Capability for adding Targets in Google Cloud Platform - CloudSQL/BigTable etc

In the current versions of Turbonomic, there is no capability for finding Google Cloud Platform - Cloud SQL and other databases as targets. Its a high time as many of our customers are adopting to GCP.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Under review

Realized Savings Details - Add column - Date

In the Realized Savings Details does not have a date column both in the UI as well the Excel report. The suggestion is to add to add a new column to add the Date Information in this view
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Under review

Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Optimizing the VM Bursting Model

In the bursting model of VMs, I would like you to monitor the amount of credit accumulation and consumption and make optimization suggestions. For example, changing to a model with larger credits or to a model other than a burst model. ■AWS EC2 (T...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Easily identify nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infra, masters)

Easily identify in the UI the nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infrastructure and masters).
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / UI & User Experience 1 Under review

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Under review

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
28 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review