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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Tag creation and deletion in Turbonomic should take effect immediately, without waiting for the next broadcast cycle

When a user creates or deletes a tag within Turbonomic, the change does not take effect immediately. Instead, the tag is only applied to — or removed from — the entity after the next broadcast cycle completes, which can take 10 minutes or more. Ta...
1 day ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Add local time/region in the SaaS UI

Today the SaaS upgrades happen based on the region they are hosted but the customers do not have a way to know which region they are hosted in with clarity. This leads to customers being unaware of upgrade/maintenance windows.
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

When ever there is an issue or product impact to Turbonomic SaaS clients, we should display an announcement on the Turbonomic home page advising clients with an updated status.

On 8/28/26 there was an issue that impacted all Turbonomic clients leveraging AWS & Azure targets (https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/defect/aCIgJ000000JAJpWAO/dt500307?language=en_US) As a result , the AT&T team was not aware of this issue a...
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Submitted

Enforce Resource Configuration as Multiples of Increment Values in Container Specs Policies

I would like to submit an enhancement request for Turbonomic regarding policy settings for Container Specs. Currently, Turbonomic policies allow us to define: minimum configuration, maximum configuration, and increment steps. However, it would be ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Submitted

Support for Power Enterprise Pool (PEP) on PowerVM Targets

PEP on IBM Power systems, is a technological solution that allows you to flexibly manage computing resources (processors, memory) on multiple Power servers within the same farm, aggregating the capabilities of multiple machines into a single share...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Please add the ability in the Turbonomic UI to CLONE / COPY a policy for the purposes of creating new policies.

AT&T has very complicated Policies and manually creating them has become a daunting task. They would benefit with the efficiency of creating polices by having a clone / copy feature and then simply change the 1 or 2 items in the policy rather ...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Submitted

Node Pool SKU Optimization for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Turbonomic should analyze Azure Kubernetes Service node pools and recommend the optimal VM SKU for each pool—for example, moving from E32 to E16 or D8 to D4—while preserving the existing number of nodes. Recommendations should account for: CPU an...

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.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking 1 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...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 0 Future consideration

Allow individual Action types to be configured for Virtual Volume Policy (and any other Policy that uses the Toggle UI construct)

When defining a Virtual Volume Policy, all of the Scaling actions are grouped under an "enable/disable" Toggle. If the Toggle is enabled, you MUST define all of the available Action types. It is not possible to have a Policy that configures ONLY e...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted