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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Add Turbo MVS Licenses as an additional line in the Workload Improvements Widget

We've just had a sensitive conversation with the client where we were NOT able to give a clear count of License growth over time because we didn't have the data. Merely point in Time which was recorded by Jim. If we were able to put ACTIVE VM coun...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

update the Workload Improvements Charts to include what a workload is.

Customers want to track licenses - and often think they can use the workload chart to do so - but they cannot. A separate Idea for Enhancement will be added today. If the documentation was updated to include the following - it would add clarity. A...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 1 Future consideration

Include date in projected end timestamp for schedules

If you set an end time of 1464 hours later, for example, you'll get a message like: Occurs once effective Tue, Aug 20, 2024 starting at 14:00 and finishing 61 days later at 14:00. This idea is for including a timestamp at the end time: Occurs once...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Allow greater control over "externalTaskTimeoutMin" API setting by action type

Every different action type has dramatically different timeout expectations. For example, a compute vmotion should have a relatively lower timeout (<45 min), whereas a storage vmotion should account for a longer timeout, with some taking severa...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

Executed Actions - Succeeded and Failed Dashboard enhancement

Executed Actions on the Cloud Executive Dashboard - Succeeded and Failed Dashboard shows all actions that have been actioned within Turbonomic and Externally. It would be good if the associated financials could be seen next to each action ie what ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Azure Billing Currency Mismatch Warning

When using Azure Billing to an EA target we faced a problem recently that Turbonomic would fetch data with mismatching currencies. Is it possible for the engineering team to set a sort of check like in the target config for Azure Billing. It would...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Support for parking of Azure Analysis Services

Azure analysis services is used for our reporting data model and not needed during off hours.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Use Groups to schedule a Park action

The Park action currently only allows filtering by Name and Region/Tag, with Groups (turbonomic-settings) not being a selectable filter option at this time. Park using Groups would make more sense
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

User-friendly message for unauthorized users

Today, when user is not authorized (i.e.: not part of any External Group in Turbo), Turbo displays a 500 server error: 500 Server Error: "{"type":500,"exception":"com.vmturbo.auth.api.authorization.AuthorizationException: Unable to authorize the u...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration