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My subscriptions: IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Adding license type to the licensing information page and a comparison button

Adding license type to the licensing information page and a comparison button. This would benefit both the Turbonomic PS/CS team members and client to understand and identify the current client licensing. It would work that at the heading would di...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Not under consideration

PowerVM - LPAR HA support

LPAR HA setup, when one LPAR from group scales so does also the other for consistency
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Make action script population context aware

Turbonomic reads an existing manifest to determine where to make an action script visible when orchestrating an action. However, it only considers the phase and does not consider the entity being orchestrated. That means you can have an action scr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Not under consideration

Create alternative container rightsizing action execution to directly update pod resource

The idea is mimc vertical pod autoscaler (VPA https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler) initial mode. "Initial": VPA only assigns resource requests on pod creation and never changes them later. This is just anot...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

The ability to configure a schedule in our policy CR

For resizing operations (vertical scaling) our users are going to want to control when automatic actions are applied. Via the UI I do see an option to create a policy schedule.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Provide a means of formatting time properties in Webhook workflows

As a user I would like the ability to format time properties for webhooks as Unix epoch milliseconds rather than iso8601, so I can store the action times in an external systems and plot them on a timeline, allowing me to correlate when the Turbono...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

My customer would like to establish a fee structure for SMB.

Background I understand that Turbonomic's target is the users who have large system which is composed over 500 VMs. My customer is considering embedding Turbonomic to their own cloud management service, and they try to sell it to SMB. Issues Curre...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Not under consideration

Follow VM start & stop order on vSphere policy

After vSphere v6.7,  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-7A132146-2779-4F4B-B39D-EE4F129DB79C.html There is a feature that allows administrators to control the order in which VMs are started and stopp...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Improve stitching where multiple services are backed by the same workload

Turbo should be able to handle multiple services that are front-ending the same workload PM update: Will convert this to an improvement on how Turbonomic stitches Services to Containerized Workload to be handled under 2 master epics: Multiple Serv...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Getting container IP from extractor

Netskope would like the ability to get container IP from the extractor. PM comment: this is not functionality related to Turbonomic, rather an issue related to choice of or configuration of the Prometheus exporter used.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration