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Policies

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Breakout list of user-defined policies into entity type to match the list provided in the group management UI

Current groups are broken out by VM, Account, DB, etc. In policies they are only grouped by imported, user defined, etc. Would be more useful to add sub sections by policy type: VM, Volume, etc.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Add description or summary field to Groups and Policy forms

Under the name allow for a short description to be added to explain why that particular group or policy needed to be created. This could then be displayed in the list of those object types for quick viewing. Example1: This group used to isolate th...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Allow a way to Save As New a copy of an existing group, schedule or policy object

Allow for a group, policy, or schedule to be duplicated. Save As New. Keep all current settings allowing the user to first edit the one variable that needs to change and then save to create it. This would significantly speed up the scoping pre-wor...
2 months 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 ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Allow a method to report on cost savings (lost/hidden) by policy

Allow a way to look at actions that would be generated by policy but that are excluded. Example: If I create a policy to generate no actions on a specific subscription, I would like to be able to see what the "potential" savings are that are hidde...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

VCPU Resize Min threshold does not generate compliance actions

User Story: User has an application which needs a minimum of 3 cores for multithreading. He sets the VCPU Resize Min threshold to 3 BUT the machines which have 1 vCPU don't show 3 vCPU as the target size. He wants to force this - so he'd like a ch...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

When a script is part of a resize policy the vCPU & vMEM actions are executed together.

Execution of pending actions are completed immediately instead of backing off or executing separately extending the change window. Fewer number of reboots to complete pending actions including vMEM, vCPU, socket matching compliance. Script complet...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Import DRS Virtual Machine Options settings

Today, Turbo imports DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules. These rules help customers keep VMs together, apart, or only on certain hosts. Some customers (Facebook, NBC) use DRS's Virtual Machine Options to override DRS automation. This settings ar...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release

Allow for CPU Increment Size in vCPU Scaling Controlsto be extrapolated from "Change" field

We, like many customers, require the ability to increment by 2 (avoid odd number of cores) regardless of scaling control type. Currently, the tool only allows for that to be adjusted if we change "Virtual CPU". We need more granularity in ways we ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration