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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add quota management information and recommendations - including reductions

Quota management and related recommendations, which is very important to the client since they determine the built capacity, and they see potential there to manage inefficiencies that the tool currently couldn't exploit. Please consider the possib...
6 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / Policies 0 Under review

Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...

Turbonomic - Develop Official Support for AWS Outposts

Customers are increasingly using AWS Outposts within their IT infrastructure. Despite being unsupported, customers who are able to target these instances via VPC subnetting are required to add to their MVS count for licensing. We have a current IB...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 4 Under review

Price Currency Globaly

Nowadays it is only possible to change the price currency in a user context. The problem with this is that some people only have ready only access and cant change the currency settings on their own (no settings cause read only) that means all peop...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Under review

SecureClient available for Self-managed Turbonomic.

The customer would like to set up a Self-managed Turbonomic instance in thier own data center, and they want it to manage vCenters located in other remote data centers as well. However, switching between multiple Turbonomic instances would be inco...

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Under review

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Kubeturbo automatically updates so that it is in sync with the Turbonomic service instance version that is deployed on GKE

There are thousands of K8s clusters cross all major public clouds being monitored by the Turbonomic instance deployed on GKE. Whenever Turbonomic instance is upgraded to a new version, manaully updating the kubeturbo agent is very tedious. Request...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Under review

It takes around 5 seconds without indicator to load group scope for external user in Turbonomic UI

It's very confusing when we select a user and see no group. If we wait for a while then groups appears...
25 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review

Visualize realized savings for actions taken in a specific timeframe

The realized savings widget shows savings for all actions taken historically, even when a specific timeframe is scoped. In order to properly report on the realized savings from a specific date, we only want to see the savings that start to accrue ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Under review