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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add an "at least" option to go up to maximum when scaling up and down to minimum when scaling down

Today, Turbonomic calculates the desired sizing of a VM and then generates an action to go there. Currently if there's a minimum set in a policy, Turbonomic could just discard the action if the Desired State is below the minimum and then not resiz...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

support for aws china region and azure china region

csm is proposing Turbonomic to customer MCDONALDS-CN together with seller and tech sales team. customer is satisfied with the POC result against their VMware and K8S environment, wish Turbonomic can support their public cloud providers(Azure China...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 5 Future consideration

Retroactive proposals (before 90 days)

I want you to make recommendations using any 90 days of data from the past.Not the last 90 days.The goal is to provide recommendations that take into account past load peaks so that users can perform optimizations in a planned manner. Attach a ref...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 2 Future consideration

Recommending the ideal configuration based on demand "forecasts".

Currently, Turbonomic actions can only be generated based on historical statistical data. However, we would like to receive recommendations for optimal configuration in advance, anticipating events such as the annual busy season that will occur ne...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Project cost savings based on parking schedules

As a user of Turbonomic I would like the ability to project cost savings based on parking schedules and resources selected, so that I can predict and plan for the cost savings associated with parking the workloads.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic (Cloud) integration with Microsoft Azure Client/Custom Policies

We define policies in Microsoft Azure to provide subscription management for Virtual Machine size limitations. Turbonomic cannot currently read custom Azure policy and will therefore recommend, and attempt, to resize certain VM sizes. These Turbon...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Enable VMEM and VCPU Minimum Thresholds for Cloud based VMs

When dealing with 3rd party products, support plans, and licensing, there are often constraints placed on systems for preserving a minimum specification. Same would be true for maximums when it comes to things like database licensing that is tied ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Discover Spot Rates

As a Turbonomic User and Data Engineer I want to see the billing rate for Spot instances, and pull that data via the Turbo API for custom reports. Currently, if the billing type = bidding, the billing rate is not discovered and exposed anywhere in...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration