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Allow staggering of high impact changes

Problem: App teams: "we cannot have these X number of vms down at the same time" Infra engineers: "we cannot support manual policy creation for each execution schedule for each set of X VMs to reboot in the same CHG window" Description: We have ma...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

New Role to delegate administration at a logical grouping of targets ( SubTenant)

For Enterprises that has multiple departments, with each having their own requirements, it will be difficult to manage the administration centrally. I will be very helpful to have a subtenant (logical) and have an administrator role at that level,...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Supported migration path to new OVA deployment

Allow configuration data and historical data to be migrated from one XL deployment to a new XL OVA deployment. This would benefit all users who wish to deploy a newer version of the OVA for security or other reasons and remove the need for a lot o...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Allow downloadable lists for all entity types from "list of xxx" pages

There are many use cases to be able to download lists of entities. Today, there is only one workaround for one entity type and that's for VMs only. To get a list of all VMs you need to go to "Top Virtual Machines" and then download from there. For...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Planned for future release

Offering a "community edition" with certain limitations.

To sell the product as a Product Lead, it is necessary to adopt an SMB business approach of getting more users to try it first. In this case, as with many other SMB products, a license that is available for free use in the customer's environment i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Support for Open Policy Agent

While it is great to have automation and placement policies in Turbonomic, it would be important to execute the actions recommended by Turbonomic in accordance with policies defined by organisations. These policies could be related to security, au...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

The Dashboard should show a Trend Chart based on Potential Savings and Number of Recommendations or actions

The Dashboard should show a Trend Chart based on Potential Savings and Number of Recommendations or actions It should be-o Daily o Month Wiseo Custom Date picker
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

Add "SOS" tool on OVA turbonomic for troubleshooting CentOS OS issue.

We have a Diagnostics tool for basic troubleshooting but unable to use it if turbonomic UI itself dose not work. (For example, OS issue, Kuernetes issue, etc.) For that case, SOS report would be very useful. In order to use it smoothly, including ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Export Group and policy settings inside the UI to make it an easy way for the customer to export either 1or all group and policy settings.

Export Group and policy settings inside the UI Use cases: Customers with single instances but no official backup instance Customers with a single Turbo instance whose recovery method may be to rely on a snapshot or network backups. If those are no...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration