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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Error alerting for mandatory field when populating any form

If a required field isn't filled out such as group/policy name or required field such as policy scope isn't selected. It doesn't direct the user towards the problem. Maybe a red highlight or prompt near the Submit button to point them as to what e...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

The plan function should include migration of SQL Managed Instances from on prem to the cloud.

These are very expensive entities - and the ability to estimate costs would be good. Also important, some customers use the exported plan as an input into a semi-automated migration process. So being able to include SQL machines in the planning fu...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Add search field on the cloud Top Accounts page.

Currently you can search by account in the target list, or in the Search/Accounts list (which doesn't show you summary data), but if you go to the Top Accounts page, there is no way to easily search for the item you are looking for. This is really...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Signed Requests for SAML SSO

Hello, I am requesting with this IBM Idea the option to enable signed request for the SSO configuration. Our IDP has the requirement to only handle signed requests because of security purposes. Right now we got an exception to use unsigned request...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Planned for future release

Dollar value for on-prem scaling - just like Cloud. Each action has a saving/cost to it.

The customer would like Turbo to put a price tag on each action. They want to be able to tell how much adding vMem or vCPU or a combo. to a VMware VM costs. The customer is aware that it depends on a bunch of things (cost/hr of host, cost/hr of da...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Planned for future release

Ability to set a Maximum Utilization and Request Constraint for nodes in OCP/K8s clusters

As a customer, I need to be able to set a maximum utilization and requests I don't want to pass for nodes, regarding the sum of all requests of all pods running there. Use case is: for production environment, I want to be sure to have enough capac...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Planned for future release

Support for .Net from datadog

Ability to have application context for .Net applications
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

Hot-Plugging Memory and CPUs on Virtual Machines (AHV)

Currently a reboot is required on virtual machines running on AHV to hot add resources. Nutanix allows hot add capabilities for CPU and Memory without a reboot natively. Turbonomic should be able to leverage the API and do the same without requiri...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Azure Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Automatically enable CPU and Memory hotadd

I would like to see a policy option for enabling hot-add as part of a pre or post action. this would simply adoption and onboarding of Virtual machines.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 5 Planned for future release