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Allow simultaneous execution of multiple actions per GCP VM

Currently there is a limitation in Turbonomic for any GCP actions that are multiple actions (not just volume actions) belonging to the same VM. They cannot be executed simultaneously, and they need to be executed one at a time. Allowing for multip...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Add support for MSSQL instances

Currently, any multi-tenant setup on SQL (aka SQL Instances) is not supported. The request is to add support - and the ideal solution would be to allow Turbo to enumerate all SQL instances via the SQL Server Browsing service.
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Functionality already exists

Have the Policies tab always show the Consistent Resize scaling constraint and its value so that I can guarantee whether it is applied to a VM or group of VMs

When you navigate to a VM or group of VMs, I want to be able to see the value for Consistent Resize that is applied to each to confirm whether or not it is applied. Currently if it is not applied, the setting is not present. This way, there's an a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Container - Bin packing recommendations

Clusters could be more optimized if the bin packing was optimized. It would be helpful to see recommendations that provided guidance to more optimally utilize clusters.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Container Reporting / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Under review

Unify resource ID display Azure

In the right sizing recommendations I the ResourceID some sometimes not displayed for Azure resources. Which makes it a bit cumbersome to find these resources if for instance you want to dig up details in for instance Apptio BI. In addition what i...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 0 Future consideration

Can't use REGEX in ACCOUNT as a filter when creating Virtual Machine and Volume groups

You can't use REGEX in ACCOUNT filter when creating Virtual Machine group. Customers have hundreds of accounts and need to roll one by one clicking. This slow down the management process and lead to human errors.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

business benefit should appear in ServiceNow Change

The biggest challenge with VM Sizing is getting App Team buy-in. With ServiceNow Orchestration - the app team will receive an approval for a CR in ServiceNow. Right now there is NO BUSINESS BENEFIT listed in this change. Why would they approve? In...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Choosing what notification to show to users

We have a request from our Business Partner(s) in Taiwan. They are also Public Cloud's partner and would like to promote Turbonomic to their AWS clients. Their client's AWS account is a linked account under BP's AWS org account with Block Billing,...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

set default value for timeline

Next to setting the default cost metrics, we would like to be able to set default value for the timeline for rightsizing.
8 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Future consideration