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Public Cloud IaaS

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Support for Azure App Service Reserved Instances

Turbonomic doesn't currently discover Azure App Service reserved instances thus may raise actions to scale down for savings due to under utilisation.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic support for Oracle Cloud

The support for OCI (Oracle Cloud) was initially raised as "TURBO-I-274", but it seems to have stalled in discussions, being marked as "Not under consideration". On the other hand, there has been an increase in the use of OCI among Japanese custom...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 7 Not under consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Allow to be build a policy to generate VM delete action for VM being idle for a defined number of days or VM delete actions or at least a list of VMs probably no longer used (minimal CPU usage, no net

Based on Idea TURBO-I-450 (measure and display days a VM is being idle) please allow to set a policy to generate delete actions for VMs being idle for x days. In addition to that, allow to set a policy as it is available with all the cloud optimiz...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

The ability to execute pre and post scripts for parking VMs to make sure certain processes are up/down

We want the ability to run pre and post scripts to parking actions. these scripts can include commands to validate that certain processes are shutdown or have the script shut them down as well as make sure that certain processes are up when we pow...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Cloud scaling actions in AWS should also include instance-level network performance metrics to assure performance after being executed

The following link (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/amazon-ec2-instance-level-network-performance-metrics-uncover-new-insights/) was provided by our cloud ops team when discussions were held regarding the validity of T...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Add Cloud Provider Filtering on Target Configurations

Please provide the option to filter the target configurations by Cloud Provider. Currently the only filter option is account/subscription status and I would really like to be able to search on AWS/Azure/GCP.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

Utilization of GCP committed discounts.

Discount Inventory of Azure RIs have the information of percent utilization and the VMs which are using that RI for each RI which is good to analyze. The similar information of percent utilization and and VMs which are utilizing the GCP committed ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration