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Action automation for Azure Scaleset VMs

Currently, Turbo only recommends actions for Azure Scaleset VMs, they cannot be executed automatically or manually. Unilever has about 12k - 15k Aks nodes added to Turbo now, in addition to about 500 VMs in scale sets. Customer wishes to automate ...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Allow or block access to subscriptions/projects in turbonomic

Turbonomic should have capability to block/allow access to subscriptions or projects even though the owner of the subscription provides access to the service principal. As the target is set to Azure/GCP, we should have some granularity to allow/bl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Allow staggering of high impact changes

Problem: App teams: "we cannot have these X number of vms down at the same time" Infra engineers: "we cannot support manual policy creation for each execution schedule for each set of X VMs to reboot in the same CHG window" Description: We have ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Call Alter

We would like the ability to restrict the default level of access for users of Turbonomic, particularly Site Administrators. Before a user can manually execute action of modify a policy, we would like to require that the user receive temporary acc...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Support CISCO Intersight as Target

CISCO is moving customer away from the legacy UCS Manager solution to their InterSight solution. We no longer have access to UCS Manager in our new UCS environment. So, we will need Turbonomic to start supporting CISCO InterSight as a target in or...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Allow choose direction of action for Container Platform Plans

If you plan a Container Platform Cluster optimization, it only permit choose scale or not. If it's possible to pick just resize down container spec and/or resize up, users will know the difference between actions. This is aligned with: https://ide...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Integrate certificate import / update ability in to UI

It would be useful to be able to upload new certificates for update purposes when they expire, vs having to go through a multi step process in the CLI
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Support for Azure SQL reserved capacity

Product doesn't currently support Azure SQL (PaaS) reserved capacity. This functionality is similar conceptually to Reserved Instances for VMs; however, it applies to SQL. Impact: Turbonomic will potentially create pending actions to scale a SQL d...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 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...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration