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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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SecureClient available for Self-managed Turbonomic.

The customer would like to set up a Self-managed Turbonomic instance in thier own data center, and they want it to manage vCenters located in other remote data centers as well. However, switching between multiple Turbonomic instances would be inco...

Implement Custom Roles & RBAC Control via Entity/Tag

This would benefit all users of Turbonomic by allowing administrators to define custom roles, as well as the permissions applied to these roles either globally or by entity/tag and their respective child objects. This would enable application owne...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 11 Planned for future release

Retain the ResourceName/ID for entities deleted/no longer in Turbo so they are available when looking at Executed Actions/Realized Savings

There is a need to correlate the specific action(s) taken on a resource to the savings/investments resulting from said action. This is done by downloading info from the Savings widget to get the resource name, then searching for same resource name...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Adjust Self-Managed Turbonomic License to Match Contract Terms

As for self-managed Turbonomic license, currently, even for officially ordered licenses, the license file that customers register contains the following details: Expiration Date: 2122-12-31 Quantity: 999,999,999 This is essentially unlimited and s...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0

Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Visualize realized savings for actions taken in a specific timeframe

The realized savings widget shows savings for all actions taken historically, even when a specific timeframe is scoped. In order to properly report on the realized savings from a specific date, we only want to see the savings that start to accrue ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Under review

Price Currency Globaly

Nowadays it is only possible to change the price currency in a user context. The problem with this is that some people only have ready only access and cant change the currency settings on their own (no settings cause read only) that means all peop...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2 Future consideration

Add support for Azure Reservation for Services other than Virtual Machines e.g. Azure SQL and AWS Reserved Instances for AWS RDS

Turbonomic is currently supporting Azure Virtual Machine Reservations and AWS EC2 Reserved Instances ensuring that the existing reservation portfolio is optimally utilized, but Azure is offering reservation for a lot of service also supported by T...
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Submitted

Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions.

Original Request from the customer.------------------------- Enable users to change the data reference period (currently less than 90 days) to any days up to 1 year at minimum, upon generating Actions. Question by IBM team.------------------------...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration

Azure San/NetApp, Netapp files, or Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud support?

Many of these targets are supported in some form or another today on prem, but I'm curious if they can be targeted in the cloud in Azure (or other CSPs)
19 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted