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DB and K8 Certificate Monitoring for OVA Deployments - on-Premise

Insight into when DB is filling and when K8 Certificates Expire. Today there are no warnings when this happens
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

A Turbo Feature that allows the export and import of the Turbo configuration, such as policies, groups, and targets.

The Turbonomic policies, groups, and target settings are assets of our customer, created based on their business requirements, use cases, and resource management experiences. There should be a way for them to export these settings as backups. Thes...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

Allow execute actions on the disk attached to an instance that is in an unmanaged instance group

There are large potential savings to update the disk type per the Turbonomic suggestions. However, turbonomic UI states "the volume is attached to an instance in an instance group. Scale actions for this volume can only be executed in Google Cloud...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 5

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses For example, suppose there are 3,000 EC2 virtual machines in one AWS account. In that case, under the current Turbonomic structure, 3,000 machines (3,000 licenses) are required on an MVS ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Visibility of Historic Recommendations

I'd like to be able to see the historic recommendations for a volume or VM. As the resource performance changes Turbo will be making recommendations and changing them and its this history that I want to be able to see. Some of our VMs are cyclical...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2

Function to notify maintenance downtime in advance (SaaS Turbonomic)

As you can see in SaaS services such as Salesforce, if downtime occurs due to maintenance, it would be good to have a function that notifies us in advance. (For example, from about a week before maintenance, a notification screen will be displayed...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

If license usage is about to exceed the limit, for example, over 80%. it should trigger an alert.

With the current licensing system, users won’t notice if the license limit has been exceeded until they try to register a new target. It would be helpful to have a feature that automatically sends a notification—via email, Slack, etc.—when license...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Adjust Self-Managed Turbonomic License to Match Contract Terms

As for self-managed Turbonomic license, currently, even for officially ordered licenses, the license file that customers register contains the following details: Expiration Date: 2122-12-31 Quantity: 999,999,999 This is essentially unlimited and s...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0

Add Turbo MVS Licenses as an additional line in the Workload Improvements Widget

We've just had a sensitive conversation with the client where we were NOT able to give a clear count of License growth over time because we didn't have the data. Merely point in Time which was recorded by Jim. If we were able to put ACTIVE VM coun...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Planned for future release

Allow group creation whose filter parameter is another group

We have a large push for expedited rightsizing actions, but we have lots of unique workload types as expected of large corporations. App types can include clustered, HA, reverse SLO, and more. These complications disallow us from simply creating a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release