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Import DRS Virtual Machine Options settings

Today, Turbo imports DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules. These rules help customers keep VMs together, apart, or only on certain hosts. Some customers (Facebook, NBC) use DRS's Virtual Machine Options to override DRS automation. This settings ar...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release

Need the MQ User Exit trace files to do some level of cleanup of /tmp/ibmmqtrace directory

At customer environments and in my own environment, I have seen the /tmp or / filesystem fill up because the MQ User Exit does not clean up the older trace files. There needs to be a mechanism to clean up the older files. We have to protect the cu...
7 months ago in Instana / MQ 1 Planned for future release

'Current Transfers' does not match time span

For MFT, if you change the time span on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard the 'Transfer Statistics' chart is updated with the new time span. For the 'Current Transfers' table this does not happen, and it will only show the tran...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Manage Move Automation on a non-VM level

Turbo WPA (Workloads Place Automation) is a competitor to VMware's DRS capabilities. Considering most customers ofTurbo are virtualized with VMware, we/they need a way to handle WPA on a cluster level, instead of having to create a group of VMs ba...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

MFT: Current Transfers should show source and destination file

We would like to have both the source file AND destination file on the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' dashboard in the 'Current Transfers' section. Currently the 'Current Transfers' table in the 'IBM MQ MFT Coordination Queue Manager' das...
about 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

IBM MQ MFT: include host names in alert payloads (remote monitoring use case)

When monitoring IBM MQ MFT remotely, alert payloads do not include the hostname where the issue occurred. This request is to include the hostname where issues occur into the alert payload.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Alert / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release

Allow a way to Save As New a copy of an existing group, schedule or policy object

Allow for a group, policy, or schedule to be duplicated. Save As New. Keep all current settings allowing the user to first edit the one variable that needs to change and then save to create it. This would significantly speed up the scoping pre-wor...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Scaling Constraints could use more granular timeframe for observation period.

Currently the Minimum Observation Period max is 7 days. (you may need a couple weeks or month minimum to stabilize a workload). The Max Observation Period jumps from 30 days to 90 days. A happy medium in between like 45/60days would probably help ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

For HA workloads (consistent resize), allow Match Cores

Today Turbonomic matches utilization based on MHz. There are use cases for when teams would want to have all their vms have matching core counts. Please add functionality to match by core count for Consistent Resize capability.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

MFT file transfers should report successful or failed

When a MFT file transfer has completed, the Instana dashboards does not report whether it was successful or failed; it is only reported 'Completed' by the coordination queue manager and the file transfer dashboards. However, when an event fires fo...
about 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 1 Planned for future release