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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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under 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

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 ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Support for Custom VMs

GCP have a great feature that enable customers to change instance size for different types than regular family published size. This is considered as a custom VMs and can be used for IaaS and GKE clusters. Turbonomic still don't support this type, ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

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...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

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...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
over 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...
4 months 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...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration