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Add support for Kubernetes Hierarchical Namespaces (HNC)

Engineering/dev teams need to leverage HNC parent-child structure to manage k8s resources Enabling rollup of cost & usage data from the child to the parent level Engineering/dev teams should have the ability to drill down to the k8s component ...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 0 Submitted

When users update a file through a report with different column headers or different file types instead of receiving a warning message users shouldn't be able to check in the changes.

Repro: User uploads a file in a report with different column headers, or a different file type and a warning message appears Current State: Users can still save and check in data. They might see the warning message but no confirmation that they di...
6 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Submitted

Need “Overwrite” capability in the Custom Calendar feature in Time Settings

Time Settings -> Custom Calendar feature only has “Append” option available to update dates.If we have to change the custom calendar dates(that we have already included in the file and checked in), we always have to rollback several days/months...
over 2 years ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings to avoid customer confusion

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings Turbonomic is showing both cloud and on-prem policy settings when cloud VMs settings are ignored (cloud VMs settings should not appear to avoid customer confusion) For customers that have ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Make TPU and GPU information from GCP available in reporting

Customers would like to see the size and memory capacity of their TPUs and GPUs. Understanding cost footprint associated with TPU and GPU sizes and capabilities is important for optimization and planning for the future.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting 1 Future consideration

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

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

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

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