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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Group the actions in ServiceNow - and then let the App Owner approve the VM rightsize actions from the one CR.

Group the actions in Snow - and then let the App Owner approve the VM rightsize actions from the one CR. And is able to select some or all of them. Otherwise the app owners will get deluged with multiple individual changes coming in to approve/rej...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Planned for future release

Improve SuperCluster Implementation & Configuration

SuperClustering is one of the more unique & useful features that enables a lot of functionality across environments within Turbonomic. Unfortunately, it can be extremely cumbersome to implement SuperClustering due to requiring specific merge p...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Add support for multiple billing accounts per cloud provider

We are trying to add 2 AWS master billing accounts to Turbo and found out that Turbo does not support that configuration. We are also trying to add 2 Azure EA's and that is not supported either. We need Turbo to support multiple billing accounts p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Planned for future release

Find a way to store historical vm data after cross-vcenter vmotion

Application and capacity teams would like to have important historical information, which get lost on cross vcenter vmotions. This is a hurdle to really adopting superclustering throughout our environment.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 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.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 5 Planned for future release

Import DRS Virtual Machine Options settings

Today, Turbo imports DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules. These rules help customers keep VMs together, apart, or only on certain hosts. Some customers (Facebook, NBC) use DRS's Virtual Machine Options to override DRS automation. This settings ar...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release

Support rightsizing and mangling AWS Lambda functions

As clients are maturing in the cloud, we are noticing more services and application moving towards a server-less architecture. Identifying which configuration on Lambda is suitable based on the demand is challenging to customers, and each configur...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 4 Planned for future release

NewRelic Alerts suppression when PMC stop virtual machines

We have configured virtual machines with NewRelic alerts and integrated with SNOW. So whenever the VM powered off, a NewRelic alert will be triggered and a SNOW incident also created. So we want PMC talk to NewRelic to suppress the alerts before P...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Support for Custom VMs

GCP have a great feature that enable customers to change instance size for different types than regular family published size. This is considered as a custom VMs and can be used for IaaS and GKE clusters. Turbonomic still don't support this type, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release