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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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VVOL volumes are not providing data to Turbonomic. So the data cannot be stitched.

A customer with a vcenter target utilizing Pure Storage is missing storage capacity and usage information (storage access IOPS / latency) in Turbo for some VMs, but are getting those metrics for other VMs discovered from the same vCenter target , ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Vertical Node Scaling for Kubernetes Nodes on VM.

VM scaling is available for ESX infrastructure VMs, and disabled for any Kubernetes Node running on a VM. Would like to see vertical Node Scaling capability in situations that warrant it like masters and internal infrastructure Nodes that remain m...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Support in-place resource resize without restart

Kubernetes at version 1.27 released a feature to change cpu and memory from containers without trigger a restart. Use this mechanism will boost Turbonomic usage on cloud native targets and minimize the requests for GitOps integrations.Source: http...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Add support for a self-hosted appliance on public cloud IaaS

A number of customers are for a self-hosted deployment of a virtual appliance hosted on Public Cloud IaaS as they cannot use SaaS due to data privacy consideration and do not want to go for an OVA deployment as they either have outsourced the on-p...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Add list of Policies to the bottom of the Details Action page on volume actions. Currently it is inconsistent with other entity types like EC2, RDS, etc.

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the Action details page has a list of policies at the bottom of the proposed changes, so you can quickly see what's applied to it that is driving that recommendation. It would be handy to also see ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Having real names against usernames

Minor thing .. when creating a user on the appliance, any chance extra fields for that users real name, department and contact details ?
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Local User Activity, Password Policy Administration, & API Keys

Last Activity & Login Date: For local users, we'd like to be able to see the Last Used Activity and Last Login Date. Password Complexity Rules and Lifecycle Management: We need a mechanism to enforce our Company's password complexity rules, su...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Size work loads for performance test only

Provide recommendations on cpu request and memory request based on performance test schedule . Scenarios : 1. Spikey type of transactions like sending event notifications via email to other apps/customers. This demands for higher cpu/mem resources...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Allow for CPU Increment Size in vCPU Scaling Controlsto be extrapolated from "Change" field

We, like many customers, require the ability to increment by 2 (avoid odd number of cores) regardless of scaling control type. Currently, the tool only allows for that to be adjusted if we change "Virtual CPU". We need more granularity in ways we ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Add support for Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi is one of the popular storage vendor widely used across enterprises and currently there is no target integration available.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration