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My ideas: Policies

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Within Turbo I should be able to select a group of items based on a larger group.

In my example I have created a group of accounts within our cloud environment, i should then be able to either apply a policy to the VM's that are in that group, or created a group of VM's that are in those accounts rather than having to duplicate...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Manage Move Automation on a non-VM level

Turbo WPA (Workloads Place Automation) is a competitor to VMware's DRS capabilities. Considering most customers ofTurbo are virtualized with VMware, we/they need a way to handle WPA on a cluster level, instead of having to create a group of VMs ba...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Improve adding groups to "Volumes" and "Database" policies

Currently, when changing the scope of a policy, the new scope overrides the old scope once saved. This only occurs for database policies and volume policies, not virtual machine policies. For example, if i have a policy and the scope is for group ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Parking policies - Needs the ability to show the selected Accounts and Resource Groups when going into Edit

When a Parking policy has been created and a user wants to go in and edit the policy, or even check what has been selected, if there are any significant numbers of accounts or resource groups then it is a laborious task to have to search through t...
17 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

vm automation policies when vm state is idle - include actions also against any attached volumes

All public cloud scale events require downtime. Downtime involves stopping any services running on these IaaS instances during an action execution activity. If a vm has a park schedule or maintenance window, then this is the ideal time to resize (...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Needs more information

enable 'resize when powered off' to work with public cloud vm's

Anyone with public cloud vm's where they want to create an automation policy that executes only when a said vm is idle
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Needs more information

Sort and Group Policy List

When viewing any particular entity or scope, the list of policies on the Policy tab is a randomly sorted randomly named list. Since a majority of these policies are automatically being generated by Turbonomic based on cloud provider constraints, i...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Planned for future release

Support for parking of Azure Analysis Services

Azure analysis services is used for our reporting data model and not needed during off hours.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Policy Toggles to enable/disable a specific policy

Use case 1: Auto imported policies are not needed and are interfering with user defined policies. Enable a policy toggle to disable it at the policy level in Turbonomic so that no resources are affected by it. A bulk selection and disable menu ava...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release