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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Provide a metric that shows actual usage of Azure disk drives along with allocated space.

Azure provides an ability to conduct a dynamic life resizing upward on disk drives, but not decrease in size. All current products and the Azure Portal will only show allocated drive space. We are unable to accurately determine if we over commit o...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under 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...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

automated & time-bound exclusion of certain VMs from downsizing due to CTO mandate

Customer story. The CTO mandates certain VMs are excluded for a certain time from the standard downsizing policies which run at each month end. Current process is a bore - manually pulling these machines into a RECOMMEND ONLY OVERRIDE group (leavi...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Support new families at GCP target - C4 and N4

Customers and Magazine Luiza started to question when we are supporting actions considering the new GCP families: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/compute-and-infrastructure-enhancements-at-next24 N4 and C4, also AMD VMs.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

Put a configurable cap on concurrent automated actions for the cloud provider to help with throttling.

The client is experiencing AWS throttling for EC2 Scaling Actions. 1000 actions can happen at the same time but can fail mid action due to AWS Throttling. . There is a setting called " properties: action-orchestrator: actionExecution.concurrentAut...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

When creating a volume scaling policy I want to be able to easily select groups for the policies in the same way as the VM policies work.

Currently I have to use a regex expression to include all the groups that the policy applies to. This is highly inconvenient as every time I want to add a new group to the policy I have to construct a new regex expression.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Not under consideration

The VMware Target should have the check box just like the Dynatrace Target (Collect Tag Information)

Right now if the same tag comes in from VMware and the APM target you're going to get duplication. Let the customer decide if they want the duplication. I recommend that the default value is YES. The other option is to have smart logic choosing wh...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Not under consideration

Request for more options in Rate of Resize

We are trying to get automated resizing implemented at Bank of New York Mellon and we are currently in the testing phase and all is going well other than the Rate of Resize. As you know you can scale by 1, a few, or straight to best recommendation...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Future consideration

Import AD and UI cert through UI

Today the customer's need to go through editing yaml files on the backend to be able to use secure ldap or importing a cert to to secure the Turbonomic UI or when using secure proxy when targeting cloud targets. All these scenarios need the custom...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic -ARM to work with GCP Cloud SQL

Need to add following capability to GCP Cloud SQL compatibility: action capabilities need to add Azure/AWS Savings Plans (vs RI's). We have visibility, actions capabilities need to add
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Planned for future release