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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Turbonomic recommendations for backup servers

Telefónica has HP Apollo Backup servers (ProLiant XL420 Gen10) integrated with Veritas NetBackup software. The backup is something that fills up over time and there is often no good criterion for deleting old backups or reducing retentions for cer...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Needs more information

Add a new column with sharing URL inside downloaded csv file of Turbo recommendations

Requests to include a column that includes the sharing URL for each recommendation.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Under review

Optimizing the VM Bursting Model

In the bursting model of VMs, I would like you to monitor the amount of credit accumulation and consumption and make optimization suggestions. For example, changing to a model with larger credits or to a model other than a burst model. ■AWS EC2 (T...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Turbonomic Temporary Elevated Access for SSO Users

My engineers that support our Turbonomic SaaS Platform require "Site Administrator" access. Now that we're doing automation in Production, it's increasingly dangerous for "Site Administrator" to be our default level of access in the UI. I would ra...
11 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Provide a means for high availability of the Turbonomic platform

As a user I would like the ability to run Turbonomic in an active/active or active/passive model, so if my primary (or any) Turbonomic instance in my environment fails, I can continue operations without putting my infrastructure and business appli...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

RI plans for items other than VM

Volumes, SQL Databases (vCore), Blob storage? Other RI plans / Savings plan projections would be excessively useful!
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Submitted

Adding a hostname in the logging

Hello,a update on this idea. We have tested it and find out, that we need a servername in the Log entries. Currently the log entries come with the pod names, such as zookeeper, market, topology, ...! This means we cannot find our entries in a cent...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Submitted

Restricting access to Turbo platform

Due to security requirements, the customer has requested to block any user from accessing the Turbo SaaS platform from IP addresses other than those they specify. In customer's other systems, IP whitelisting is implemented through the instance’s f...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration