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Adding selection of policies in order to create different plan scenarios

Would it be possible to create a menu similar to placement policies when performing a plan, but for automation policies. This way we can do something like this: Lets say we have two policies already created: Policy 1 -> I want to scale workload...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Cloudability should be able to automatically archive deleted accounts

Cloudability has access to our billing account and to the API to query additional information. There should be a capability within Cloudability to automatically archive accounts that do not exist no more. Currently those accounts are grouped toget...
almost 2 years ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 2 Future consideration

Anomaly Alert Summary Listing email with hyperlinks to the alert details for Admins

This would be useful for Admins since we get too many individual emails for each anomaly. This summary sheet would reduce the number of alerts Admins have to sift thru while the Resource Owner (user) gets the detailed anomaly email directly. An Ad...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Submitted

Add REGRX support when creating groups of virtual machine type.

AT&T needs the ability to build VM groups based on instance type leveraging a regex. This is extremely difficulty in the UI as you need to go through all instance types and manually click when selecting instance types.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Support cost exports at billing account level for MCA customers

Today Turbonomic only supports cost exports at a billing profile level for MCA customers which means they have to create one export per billing profile which can be a lot of work depending on the number of profiles in their environment. The ask he...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

CostGuard- Terraform and Github integration for Azure enablement

About a year ago we became aware of a Cloudability integration to terraform and Github feature that analyzed builds and provides gated recommendations for optimization; this was called Cost Guard. I believe a product also existed that integrated d...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Governance 1

Preserve Deep Link Destination After SSO Login

Currently, when a user opens a direct link to a specific entity, action, group, or any other resource in Turbonomic, the system redirects them to the SSO login page if they are not already authenticated. However, after successful login, the user i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Commitment Support for Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned

Commitment Support for Azure OpenAI Service Provisioned
over 1 year ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 2 Future consideration

Add "Non-Disruptive" column to Action Center for On-Prem and Container actions

Today, in the Action Center for many Cloud scaling actions, we have a column highlighting whether the action is non-disruptive or not. This helps customers adopt Turbo's automation quicker, builds trust, and lowers the barriers to action execution...
about 4 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 5 Planned for future release

More options with regards to Parking schedules

In our current use of Parking schedules, we currently define a Weekly schedule for workloads. We could gain greater savings if there was an option for a bi-weekly or 4-week schedule definition. We have processes (patching, security scans, etc.) th...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking 0 Planned for future release