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Pre-deployment policy checks to verify that provisioning requests meet the standards/rules of the organization for infrastructure

Deployments must adhere to provisioning standards and stay within security "guard rails". These standards and guard rails are spelled out by means of a collection of rules that are applied to provisioning requests to determine if the requests are ...
over 6 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Capability to create custom roles in addition to the available standard roles

ICP is missing custom role creation option as per APIC 2018.4.1.0. It will give admins the flexibility to create the purposely build custom roles to cater the need of individual teams. Example: New role with the standard viewer plus access to the...
almost 7 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Functionality already exists

Monitoring Module to support Nutanix

MUFG are investing heavily in Nutanix and need a solution to monitor it. Our competition, Applications Manager from ManageEngine, provide this function today.
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Installation Process should also include using yaml to install

This is to provide an installation path when using the console is not an option because of customer security restrictions. Also to make changes after the installation you use yaml. Also if you have to make adjustments from the defaults then it's a...
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Future consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Create operand to delete operators when uninstalling MCM v2.0.0

When uninstalling MCM v2.0.0 the user should have the ability to use an out-of-the-box operand to uninstall all of the operators MCM v2.0.0 creates. It is tedious to delete every operator when an install goes wrong.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Using Kustomize to Simplify Client Configuration

Kustomize is a declarative management tool that allows users to create different variants or configurations of a base yaml. A tool like this can assist our clients configure our product during the installation process.
about 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Turbonomic to exclude discovering Cancelled Subscriptions

Discovering Cancelled Subscriptions lead to get the data of resources which are not actually billing and will have false savings reported from the recommendations of its resources.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Support runtime data collectors to monitor applications using gRPC

When deploying an application that uses gRPC with the runtime data collector, that is, even if the communication between the kubernetes services is other than HTTP/HTTPS, it can be viewed the service dependency topology and the transaction sequenc...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

if a client has a special RI Discount % with Microsoft on top of the regular RI savings - that discount should be included under the effective cost column in the Discount Inventory Widget

If Turbo can't see this special RI Discount % , then the cost of the RIs are wrong. This causes issues in reporting and also affects the decision of whether the RI should be purchased or not. If this special RI Discount is NOT visible through any ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration