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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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under 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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3

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, ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

GPU optimization for Windows OS environment on Azure

Now, Turbonomic support GPU optimization for Linux OS environment on ver 8.13.4. But, Customer require support GPU optimization for Windows OS environment, because Azure is often Windows OS use (CAD, VDI etc). Ex) Azure VDI Instance GPU supported ...
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Under review

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

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Exclude Citrix provision VMs from Citrix cloud in Azure resource group from the Turbonomic licensing

Azure VDI VMs do not count towards the Turbonomic license since 8.5.2 but Citrix provision VMs from Citrix Cloud in Azure resource group has calculated as of now. So Azure resource group which manages Citrix VDIs should not be counting in Turbonomic
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Planned for future release

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 ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration