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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Disable All Actions Switch under Global Default Policies must include Parking Actions. Currently does not.

People might assume that the Global Defaults Disable All Actions switch might work on Parking actions. And then during a cutover, machines would be turned off by accident causing massive disruption. EITHER this switch should INCLUDE parking action...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Have the Policies tab always show the Consistent Resize scaling constraint and its value so that I can guarantee whether it is applied to a VM or group of VMs

When you navigate to a VM or group of VMs, I want to be able to see the value for Consistent Resize that is applied to each to confirm whether or not it is applied. Currently if it is not applied, the setting is not present. This way, there's an a...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Allow resizing of a VM when the VM is not running

Scale actions to resize or change the instance type of a VM in Azure do not function on a VM that is stopped/deallocated. Many of our VMs are scheduled to be stopped outside of normal business hours. We also have a schedule policy to have "execute...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending capabilities to on-premises VMs

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending functionality to VMs in vmware/hyper-v enviornments. For all the same reasons Turbo supports parking VMs in the cloud, Turbo should extend this functionality to on-prem workloads. By turning off idle resources, Tu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Add Cloud IP Management to Turbonomic

The client has shown a keen interest in Turbonomic being able to monitor and automate actions related to IPs in the Cloud. Following a recent discussion with their Cloud Provider, they learned that IP prices are slated to surge by fivefold. Conseq...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Adding Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor.

Please add Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor for on-premises environments. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/virtualization/what-is-KVM
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Add list of groups to bottom of Details page

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see a list of group memberships since all policies are tied to a group and it...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Action Center/Actions tab doesn't allow sorting by unique system data

In both old and new UI the Actions page only allows sorting by generic Turbonomic columns such as Non-disruptive, Reversible, Action Category and Cost Impact. It does not allow sorting the list by Tier, Disk Size/Instance Type, IOPS, Cost, New Cos...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration