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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Turbonomic - Add support for Postgres databases (via APM targets, maybe as direct target)

Postgres is the no. 4 in the database market following Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL and one of the fasted growing db engines Turbonomic currently does not support Postgres yet neither as target nor via APM tools. Please add support for Postgres databas...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 2 Future consideration

Confusing risk description in Actions

The column Risk description when a file of actions over container specs is exported, shows a mixture of different actions. It's a sum of potential actions but there is no direct correlation between an action and the description that appears in the...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Actions excel downloaded is missing the word "limit" on the Impacted commodity column

List of exported actions for workload controller entities lists 'Limit' resize commodities as only VCPU and VMEM. It is expected VMEM Limit /VCPU Limit instead of just VMEM/VCPU. Related to the case TS019321209.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Include a simple method to import AD/LDAP certificates for external authentication

The current method to import the LDAP certificate to allow for external AD authentication is extremely complex, cumbersome, time consuming, and error prone. Multiple troubleshooting sessions are needed at times to figure out how to get the certifi...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 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...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 1 Future consideration

Integrate policy scheduling for on prem actions by scheduled maintenance windows

We had purchased a custom integration which was crafted by Ray Mileo and John Fabry which integrates scheduled maintenance windows in our turbonomic solution which creates policies based on configured maintenance windows / patching cycles of our W...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Planned for future release

Azure Savings Plan commitment planning

I would like to have the ability to create plans for Azure Savings Plan commitments based on my current workloads not covered by reserved instances that are running hourly pay go rates.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Allow a user to set min/max number of nodes per any node pool in k8s

Long term: have a definition of a machineset/node group/node pool configuration that a user can define min/max number in terms of action generation and execution - A MachineSet (or any Node Group) could have a policy to control horizontal scaling ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Display hot add memory and cpu information on Entity Information widget

Provide visibility on whether a VM has hot add enabled for CPU and MEM from the entity detail
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Get skupper-router in the SaaS product to use a valid cert signed by a public CA for TLS transport during token exchange with on-prem appliance

Token exchange is failing through our transparent Internet proxies because an untrusted internal CA certificate from the skupper-router is being used for both TLS transport and mTLS. The untrusted cert is causing the connection to be reset by the ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release