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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Allow a user to set min/max number of nodes per any node pool in k8s

Long term: have a definition of a machineset/node group/node pool configuration that a user can define min/max number in terms of action generation and execution - A MachineSet (or any Node Group) could have a policy to control horizontal scaling ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Planned for future release

Add support for multiple SaaS Clients connecting to SaaS instance

Today, one can only connect one SaaS Client to a Turbo SaaS instance. But there are examples where customers have multiple datacenters that do not have network connectivity between them. Because of this, they need a SaaS Client in each datacenter ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Allow more than one "Report Editor"

Currently, you can only add the "Report Editor" permission to one single user in the User Management panel of the UI. If you try to add more than one, you get an error message stating "* There is already a Report Editor. Designating another one ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Add support for Azure SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale an Azure SQL instance.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Planned for future release

Provide a warning when internal certificates are about to expire

Rather than being surprised when internal certificates have expired when on the CLI (which is rare and usually only when doing upgrades), gives us a heads up in the UI.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Filter/sort user-created groups by creator and create date

Groups can get unmanageable very quickly. Allowing users to be able to see the following fields would be incredibly helpful for maintenance and operations: Creator Created date Last modified Last modified by Please also allow sorting and filtratio...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

What-if planing option to evaluate impact if a percentage of VMs upsize

Would like to be able to run a plan that evaluates cluster capacity if VMs in an automation hotadd policy were to upsize. Within the plan be able to on a slide basis evalutate if 10,20 etc. % were to consume the limit of the hot add policy. This w...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

add context help for Global Default Policy - especially Disable All Actions

Context help for Disable All Actions. Something like. "Turbonomic will stop generating any actions, Automated, Manual or Recommended. On-Prem Plans can still be run; Cloud Plans may produce faulty results."
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Group membership should be easily visible for each VM

When I look at a VM I can see an overview, details, policies, actions. I would like to be able to see what groups the VM is part of in this same view. Having to go into reports to find the groups for a VM is not a good user experience. Thank you.
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release