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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Reminder message for user if the logging level is left outside of Info.

Oftentimes if there is an issue where a customer has to do some deep digging on an issue the logging level is changed from Info to perhaps Debug or Trace level. Sometimes mistakes are made and the logging level is not set back to Info. When this h...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Add imported groups to the Groups management page

Idea: Add a new section to the Settings|Groups management page that shows imported groups and their origin Currently, when you navigate to Settings|Groups, you do not see groups that have been imported from vCenter or other targets. The imported ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

User option to cleanup old images following the upgrade process.

When performing an upgrade of Turbonomic the old images are just left in the /var directory. Nexttime when a user goes to upgrade and they run the upgrade-precheck.sh script, the /var directory is often over the 70% limit and the user must manuall...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

Create alternative container rightsizing action execution to directly update pod resource

The idea is mimc vertical pod autoscaler (VPA https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler) initial mode. "Initial": VPA only assigns resource requests on pod creation and never changes them later. This is just anot...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Ability download individual diagnostic components

We have always had a problem downloading large diagnostic files at CITI and the option to download individual smaller files would be preferred. The current diagnostic bundle is made up of all of the assigned pods diagnostic files.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Adding license type to the licensing information page and a comparison button

Adding license type to the licensing information page and a comparison button. This would benefit both the Turbonomic PS/CS team members and client to understand and identify the current client licensing. It would work that at the heading would di...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Not under consideration

Make action script population context aware

Turbonomic reads an existing manifest to determine where to make an action script visible when orchestrating an action. However, it only considers the phase and does not consider the entity being orchestrated. That means you can have an action scr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Not under consideration

Getting container IP from extractor

Netskope would like the ability to get container IP from the extractor. PM comment: this is not functionality related to Turbonomic, rather an issue related to choice of or configuration of the Prometheus exporter used.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Working with Prometheus in container environment

Today we don’t manage exporter, and metric has to be in Turbo namespace, but Netskope would like it to be available in all namespaces.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Not under consideration

My customer would like to establish a fee structure for SMB.

Background I understand that Turbonomic's target is the users who have large system which is composed over 500 VMs. My customer is considering embedding Turbonomic to their own cloud management service, and they try to sell it to SMB. Issues Curre...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Not under consideration