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Turbonomic Policy engine provides easy way for set affinity to newer generations of instance types when considering same size so tool does not suggest de-modernizing from db.8g.4xl to db.6g.4xl

Newer cloud Provider instance types may have price/performance benefits that customers are seeking. Customersmay have a policy and practice of running newer instance types (database, virtual machines, ...). It would be helpful if the Turbonomic po...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Direct action scheduling - Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule.

Allow actions to be directly scheduled instead of needing to associate entity to policy and policy to schedule. Direct scheduling should override any execution schedule at policy level until the action has been successfully executed. This would al...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic (Cloud) integration with Microsoft Azure Client/Custom Policies

We define policies in Microsoft Azure to provide subscription management for Virtual Machine size limitations. Turbonomic cannot currently read custom Azure policy and will therefore recommend, and attempt, to resize certain VM sizes. These Turbon...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Workloads at Kirkland being seasonal, max observation period is needed to be 180 days

Kirkland would like to set the max observation period to 180 days from current max allowable 90 days.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Ability to customize starting month for pans

When we generate forecast using plans feature, we should be able to customize starting month for plans. This will help tracking our commitments with CSPs. For example - If we have a commitment with CSP starting from Sep-2025 for 2 years. I dont ne...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

Ability to generate forecast in plans for up to 6 years

We have some long range commitments with Cloud Service Providers for next 5 years. For us to track that under plans, we will need to forecast for next 6 years starting from this year. But since the current plan feature allows for only up to 3 year...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Under review

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

CFP - Support Azure Contract Commitments (including 5 year Plan Duration)

Customers would like the ability to track and reconcile their Azure Contract Commitments (e.g., Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), Enterprise Agreement (EA), Azure Consumption Commitment, Azure Prepayment, etc.) directly within the Cloud Financia...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Updated UI when importing Budgets with values that don't load.

Customers want to allow for future planned expenses in their budgets. Sometimes these future plans are not reflected in the current values available in the costing dimensions in Plans. Customer would like to be able to add "dummy" or future planne...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Add support for displaying Fiscal Years as per UK accounting convention

Cloud Financial Planning currently doesn't support the conventional way of displaying a UK Fiscal Year that spans 2 calendar year. For example, a Fiscal Year that runs for 12 months from April (Yr1) to March (Yr2) can only be displayed as either F...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 1 Future consideration