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Pure Storage Data Reduction Ratios not being picked up by Turbo. Using the manual Over-provisioning %. Therefore Turbo makes unnecessary Provision Disk Array Recommendations

The customer says Turbo's AI should be picking up data that is available in the PURE Storage system - and should not be requiring that the Storage Capacity Planners be adjusting the Storage Overprovisioned Percentage in the Disk Array Policy. I wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Have a way to control how many action to send to ServiceNow

We would like to integrate our Turbonomic with ServiceNow for VM right-sizing actions. But we found out that once we turn on that automation, Turbonomic is going to send all (1000+) of actions to ServiceNow ... that is not acceptable as it will fl...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Add "CLUSTER" to relation tree for a group

If you create a group, then go to view the group, you can see several options in the tree on the main landing page of that group. Top to bottom, business app > vm > virtual dc > host > dc. There are many environments that design specif...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Add support for project (Rancher) and cluster quotas (OpenShift)

A project quota in Rancher (see https://ranchermanager.docs.rancher.com/v2.5/how-to-guides/advanced-user-guides/manage-proje[…]project-resource-quotas/about-project-resource-quotas) or cluster quota in OpenShift (see https://docs.openshift.com/con...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Naming convention while Importing policies from Targets

When Integrated with vCenter Target, Turbonomic is downloading Affinity policies defined in vCenter but naming in Turbonomic is completely changed. EndUser can't rename the policy names in Turbonomic as its ReadOnly. Customers exacts the naming ma...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Allow group creation whose filter parameter is another group

We have a large push for expedited rightsizing actions, but we have lots of unique workload types as expected of large corporations. App types can include clustered, HA, reverse SLO, and more. These complications disallow us from simply creating a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Provide associated risk for Reconfigure to add licensed host actions

As a user I would like the ability to observe the reason that Turbonomic is recommending to add/reconfigure a new licensed host, so that I can better understand the impact/outcomes of reconfiguring to add a new licensed host.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Make the optimization of Turbonomic by Turbonomic available per default when deploying on OpenShift

The Turbonomic OVA always includes the feature that Turbonomic optimizes itself and displays itself as business application. For this purpose the OVA included Prometheus to gather the required metrics, prometurbo to import those to Turbonomic, kub...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Granular resizing automation policies for Cloud Volume and DBs similar to 'Scale for Performance/Savings' settings for Cloud VMs

As a user, I would like the flexibility to specify which actions to automate and which ones should be reviewed and/or taken manually. Similar to the Orchestration and Automation settings for VM, I would like to see a Scale All / Scale for Performa...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration