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Hot-Plugging Memory and CPUs on Virtual Machines (AHV)

Currently a reboot is required on virtual machines running on AHV to hot add resources. Nutanix allows hot add capabilities for CPU and Memory without a reboot natively. Turbonomic should be able to leverage the API and do the same without requiri...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Stop count licenses for unsupported workloads

We have some workloads in Turbonomic that is not supported, like AWS Spot Instances and GCP Custom VMs. We still read and bring those workloads, but count them as a license consumption. We should not count them until fully GA of the feature and pr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 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...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

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

Upgrading the packages to newer releases

Current Turbo versions for these packages: 1.) Kafka 3.6.1 2.) Consul v1.16.3 3.) Rsyslog 8.2310.0-4.el9 4.) Nginx 1.20.1.14.el9 5.) Zookeeper 3.8.4 Latest versions: 1.) Kafka 3.8.0 2.) Consul 1.19.1 3.) Rsyslog 8.2406.0 4.) nginx 1.27.0 5.) Zooke...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 3

Customer wants a more sophisticated Turbonomic system status page

The customer is concerned with hard outages and soft (data) outages. Wants to see this on one page. - like apple or datadog platform status page. Can we pull the details of the current System Health and System Alert pages into one cohesive page. A...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / SaaS 2 Future consideration

Support logical groups of resources to allow actions to be sequenced

Add support for “Logical group names” function that Park My Cloud had. logically group resources together that allow me to then sequence the order that groups of resources are stopped and started.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

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.
9 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