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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add support for vSAN Witness host

Implementing vSAN Stretched Clusters in a VMware vSphere environment requires setting up a witness host storing all meta data but hosting no VMs and acting as a quorum in a split brain situation (see https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-stretched...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Ed25519 ssh keys when adding ActionScript target

When configuring the ActionScript target, the target discovery failed using Ed25519 ssh keys. The error says 'Could not extract key pair elements from provided string’. The recommendation within the bank is to Ed25519 ssh keys. When changing to RS...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Future consideration

Expand Azure reservation planning to additional Azure resource types supporting Azure reserved instances

Currently Turbonomic only supports planning reservation instances for VMs in Azure. Microsoft provides numerous resource types to purchase reserved instances. I want to make purchases driven on analytics provided by Turbonomic to drive ROI, howeve...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Please add support for Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage

Using Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/disks-enable-performance?tabs=azure-cli ) an Azure customer can opt-in for this IOPS and thoughput for Azure disks. Please add support for ...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Have a way to control how many action to send to ServiceNow

We would like to integrate our Turbonomic with ServiceNow for VM right-sizing actions. But we found out that once we turn on that automation, Turbonomic is going to send all (1000+) of actions to ServiceNow ... that is not acceptable as it will fl...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Add "CLUSTER" to relation tree for a group

If you create a group, then go to view the group, you can see several options in the tree on the main landing page of that group. Top to bottom, business app > vm > virtual dc > host > dc. There are many environments that design specif...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Add group filter "Cloud Tier" for Database Servers entities

If you want to create a group with all databases with version db.r6g as example, you can't use the cloud tier as a filter. Customers can't limit the resize to his own family, since Turbonomic is not RI RDS aware.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Make the optimization of Turbonomic by Turbonomic available per default when deploying on OpenShift

The Turbonomic OVA always includes the feature that Turbonomic optimizes itself and displays itself as business application. For this purpose the OVA included Prometheus to gather the required metrics, prometurbo to import those to Turbonomic, kub...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Expand public cloud targets to include Oracle in C2E

The US Federal government's C2E contract provides for AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle public clouds in isolated, classified environments. Oracle is the only cloud that we do not support on C2E (high-side). Please add Oracle. I am happy to share mor...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration