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Planning

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In the Merge Cluster Plan the cluster name should be displayed in the actions, output, and exports.

When using the Merge Cluster Plan only the host name is present in the actions, output, and exports. It would be nice if the cluster name were present in the actions, output, and exports for easy readability and understanding of the data.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Future consideration

The plan function should include migration of SQL Managed Instances from on prem to the cloud.

These are very expensive entities - and the ability to estimate costs would be good. Also important, some customers use the exported plan as an input into a semi-automated migration process. So being able to include SQL machines in the planning fu...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Plan improvements: Downloading all plan results

Turbonomic planning allows us to simulate scenarios to migrate workloads to different clusters to simulate how workloads could be supported on different node sizes. This is a workaround to having Turbo recommend what vertical size node would be be...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Plan results shall include all commodities (e.g. IOPS) relevant for the resulting sizing

When running a plan, especially a hardware refresh plan, you cannot see the reasoning for the resulting number of hosts if the reason is a commodity like IOPS not displayed in the plan results. Therefore, please display all commodities (e.g. IOPS)...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Expand Azure reservation planning to additional Azure resource types supporting Azure reserved instances

Currently Turbonomic only supports planning reservation instances for VMs in Azure. Microsoft provides numerous resource types to purchase reserved instances. I want to make purchases driven on analytics provided by Turbonomic to drive ROI, howeve...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Matt would like Turbonomic to have the ability to base RI purchase planning recommendations on a greater time scale than just 30 days, ideally up to 90 days.

Better visualization of long term usage of RIs and better able to compete with native Azure RI recommendations
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

In the Alleviate Pressure Plan the for the cold clusters the sorting order should be reversed to put green clusters at the top.

When utilizing the Alleviate Pressure Plan first a hot cluster is selected which is either a red, yellow, or orange cluster - which are sorted to the top for easy selection. On the next selection to select a cold cluster the sort order is the same...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Not under consideration