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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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Support for database replication on on premises deploy (MySQL)

In this case we are using the OVA deployment connected to externa DB (MySQL) and the idea is to have the database in cluster mode using group replication to have a better availability of the environment.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

RHEL OVA Template Option

With the recent announcement of CentOS going EoL, the Turbonomic OVA Template is being delivered on Rocky Linux beginning with 8.12.02. Unlike CentOS, Rocky is not approved for US Federal and will require extensive testing. RHEL is already adopted...
5 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...
over 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...
over 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add "CLUSTER" to relation tree for a group

If you create a group, then go to view the group, you can see several options in the tree on the main landing page of that group. Top to bottom, business app > vm > virtual dc > host > dc. There are many environments that design specif...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Deployment support publicly for upstream (OSS) K8s environment

We understand that previously (before TOB), we supported the Multi Node Turbonomic deployment option for large scale environments to upstream (OSS) K8s environments. Procedure published the following. https://github.com/turbonomic/t8c-install/wiki...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

If I have subscriptions with the same name in different Azure Service Principles, I would like a way to add each subscription separately to the Target Configuration.

When configuring multiple Azure Service Principals as Targets, if the Subscriptions they have have the same name, the configuration will be overwritten by a subsequent win. [1] Azure Service Principals "A" has "Subscription 1", and Azure Service P...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration