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Provide user notification of unsupported cloud instance type

As CSPs release new instance types and the customer deploys them to their environment before Turbo has implemented support, notify the user of the unsupported instance types. This will ensure that the user knows that action generation is suppresse...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Future consideration

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's as this is currently done for Azure VM's as per attached screen shot. This will make it easier to track and report on what VM's have memory metrics enabled for all cl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Combine Azure volume scaling with VM scaling based on VM tags

What is the desired customer use case?: The customer would like from a policy to trigger the actions and execute the n actions at the same time (automatically/programmatically using API calls based on VM tags to select all the action related to o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Turbonomic to give recommendations for Azure VM Scale Sets.

A lot of corporations have Azure VM Scale Sets which are improperly configured. They are set to scale OUT but not IN. And there is a lot of waste. Would love it if VM Scale Sets are treated differently and recommendations given - e..g SCALE IN for...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Use native AWS memory metrics without renaming so that AWS Users can view Memory Metrics in AWS CloudWatch Resource Health View.

A Business application team requires the use of the AWS CloudWatch Resource Health view. The Resource Health view requires the native AWS metric names which conflicts with the Turbonomic requirement to rename the metrics. Change the way that the T...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Provide a metric that shows actual usage of Azure disk drives along with allocated space.

Azure provides an ability to conduct a dynamic life resizing upward on disk drives, but not decrease in size. All current products and the Azure Portal will only show allocated drive space. We are unable to accurately determine if we over commit o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Regex support for "Account" group filter

When selecting accounts (or Azure subscriptions) for a particular VM group, we sometimes want to create a large scope. We have over 160 accounts in our environment and we like to have a group scoped to non-production and production. To create thos...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Planned for future release

Allow Turbonomic be aware of edge cases and scale virtual machines to instance types that are available in the AZ

Generally, all the instance types are available within the entire region which we take into consideration but in some edge cases AWS does not make them available in a particular AZ within that region. We do not track availability within a particul...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic uses APIs. We can contribute to Azure API throttling. How do we manage and minimize this impact.

Many clients have multiple applications using API calls in Azure Subscriptions. Security Apps, Compliance Apps, APMS (like Dynatrace) , Terraform, and our IBM apps - Turbonomic ARM and parkmycloud (PMC). Whilst Turbonomic may not be the main consu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3

Support for Public Cloud(AWS, Azure, GCP) via Private Link connection.

Turbonomic connects to publicly exposed API endpoints of each cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) to obtain information on each cloud and optimize IT resources.Major Japanese users who operate mission-critical systems in the cloud often connect secur...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration