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Function to notify maintenance downtime in advance (SaaS Turbonomic)

As you can see in SaaS services such as Salesforce, if downtime occurs due to maintenance, it would be good to have a function that notifies us in advance. (For example, from about a week before maintenance, a notification screen will be displayed...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

'Disable Stage' Scheduling Function

We like to use the Disable stage function during times when we process consumption feeds and we want to hold staging calculations for one big calculation.  That said we have on occasion forgot to enable the stage calculations before the end o...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Planned for future release

Provide a mechanism to add notes to a Turbonomic generated action and the ability to mark the action as "not taken" or "delayed" and provide a reason

We often have teams who either do not believe and optimization is needed or have a business justification for not taking a recommendation currently or ever. We are currently tracking those in separate spreadsheets without the ability to provide in...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Kubernetes HPA Integration

Turbonomic integration with HPA to ingest memory/CPU metrics and provide recommendations on what to set optimal metrics settings to. Additionally, action generation using recommended settings to scale number of container pods to optimal configurat...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

vGPU Optimization & Utilization Metrics

My customers have a GPU pool for their VMs and Containers.They'd like to see the "move" or "placement" recommendations for the VMs that are using vGPU Resources.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Allow a user to set min/max number of nodes per any node pool in k8s

Long term: have a definition of a machineset/node group/node pool configuration that a user can define min/max number in terms of action generation and execution - A MachineSet (or any Node Group) could have a policy to control horizontal scaling ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Cost Transparency - Custom Calendar Request to Match Fiscal Calendar

Currently when we build a query for a fiscal month, ApptioOne will show or apply the calendar month. We would like to see the option of the formula to be the Fiscal month time period and not the calendar month. So February would be  Current D...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Park ASG's or VMSS from EKS/AKS clusters

As now, it's only supported park ASG's and VMSS's that is not related to k8s clusters. The demand is to shutdown and turn on an entire k8s clusters for cost savings. They are doing today using scripts and it's welcome bring this feature inside Tur...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Improved Policy Management - Tagging, Folders & Filters

As an administrator, I would like the ability to organize my automation & placement policies as I define them - either by folder or tag. This would allow me to quickly navigate to specific types of policies built for my environment by cluster,...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration