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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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Planned for future release

Allow customization to the container cost allocation algorithm

Currently the cost allocation is based on the instances used in the cluster. Customers would also like to be able to tailor the cost allocation for specific clusters or be able to assign their own weight for some workload types. Possible configura...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Under review

Modelled Reports

As TBMA a lot of our time is consumed explaining to  our stakeholders via various means- reports, ppt slides, endless meetings, comms, diagrams how cost flows from the bottom of the model ie cost source through all hierarchies to the Service ...
almost 3 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically identify root volumes

Dynamically identify root volumes in order for us to exclude root volumes from policies This will allow us to filter out root volumes from some volume scaling actions. We want to be able to use the filter option in the group creation wizard to sco...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Map Visualization for reporting

Workforce accounts for a majority of spend and being able to view it in a map view to understand footprint and cost per area would be very helpful. View attached image for a reference. Would like granularity not just based on country but by states...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Provide user notification of unsupported cloud instance type

As CSPs release new instance types and the customer deploys them to their environment before Turbo has implemented support, notify the user of the unsupported instance types. This will ensure that the user knows that action generation is suppresse...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 5 Not under consideration

Option to Export as a .CSV out of TBM Studio

As an admin, I export data directly out of TBM Studio for our users to review and upload themselves into IT Planning. As the default file type when exporting out of TBM Studio is .xslx and the required file type to import into IT Planning is .csv,...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Support for AWS Spot Instance Advisor

Turbonomic could use tighter integration with AWS Spot Instance Advisor, which recommends spot instances and spot instance usage optimizations for performance and cost, similar to Turbonomic with other instance types. While Turbonomic is aware of ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

It would be great to enable Error messages in TBM studio to export to Excel

Processing of error messages would be more efficient, if export to excel is available on this table. In particular in case there is a lot of errors or comparing the list after upgrade.
4 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review