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Support for Azure App Service Reserved Instances

Turbonomic doesn't currently discover Azure App Service reserved instances thus may raise actions to scale down for savings due to under utilisation.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Not under consideration

Parking runs into problems when VMs are too close to the Quota Limit

Business Case: Customer shut down 5 Azure VMs - and tried to turn them on in the morning - only 4 did- because the quota for that VM was exhausted. The Customer had to half the size of the machine - then it could start up. What would be REALLY goo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Turbo should not recommend Disk Size changes for Azure HyperScale DBs - they autoscale.

bad actions reduce faith in the product and waste time. This is distracting the customer for really good actions - like HyperScale scaling.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Functionality already exists

Enable a manual override to stop failing actions in the queue

Currently if there is an issue with permissions or a policy conflict, actions that were manually executed will continue to retry (appears to be indefinitely?) There should be a way to cancel that action so that the logs aren't filled with one-time...

Add list of groups to bottom of Details page

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see a list of group memberships since all policies are tied to a group and it...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Enable functionality to display Disk Size Utilization

While Turbonomic might not be able to take action to downsize a particular disk based on utilization, it would be a good value-add to present this data, so that users could see if they need to replace the drive with one more appropriately sized fo...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Enable a toggle feature to be able to execute actions in a more granular way for Database Server recommendations

Currently recommendations for RDS may have three distinct changes: Instance type, instance size, storage type. In cases where one or two of the recommendations don't make sense, allow a toggle to disable that recommendation (either on the action d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

Showing the Revision/Version of Azure Windows on Turbonomic Entity UI

Currently, in the Turbonomic Entity UI, "Windows" is shown under "OS and Software." However, in the Azure Console, "Operating system" is displayed as "Windows (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter)," showing details like the type of Windows OS and its R...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration