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For HA workloads (consistent resize), allow Match Cores

Today Turbonomic matches utilization based on MHz. There are use cases for when teams would want to have all their vms have matching core counts. Please add functionality to match by core count for Consistent Resize capability.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

regular expression filter on different attributes in group creation

Currently we have regular expression filter for the VM name while creating a group for VMs which makes job easy for bulk selection at a time. It would also be good to have similar regular expression filter for creating group of VMs based on accoun...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Planned for future release

When the rate of resize is NOT 3 – show the desired end state. – let it be clear that it will take more steps to get to desired state.

If a customer has a Rate of Resize set to 2-Medium then Turbonomic will create an action to take it 25% of the way to the optimal value. And this jump (let’s say 32GB –> 34 GB memory) appears in the Action and Details. The optimal value is 8GB ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Allow moving of VM's on a datastore not in a Storage Cluster to a datastore in a Storage Cluster and vice-versa

Allow moving of VM's on a datastore not in a Storage Cluster to a datastore in a Storage Cluster and vice-versa. Currently this type of action is blocked due to a Turbo limitation not a VMware limitation. This is needed when customers have to migr...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to set utilization and other constraints on group or cluster level

IBM Turbonomic is currently importing admission control settings which are part on a VMware HA policy as utilization constraint affecting all host in a cluster individually. For a stretched cluster this means that a 50% maximum utilization constra...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Planned for future release

Clearly indicate policy hierarchy in the UI

As a user I would like the ability to understand the hierarchy overrides for policy settings, so I can have accurate expectations about the outcome of applying a policy.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Exclude Citrix provision VMs from Citrix cloud in Azure resource group from the Turbonomic licensing

Azure VDI VMs do not count towards the Turbonomic license since 8.5.2 but Citrix provision VMs from Citrix Cloud in Azure resource group has calculated as of now. So Azure resource group which manages Citrix VDIs should not be counting in Turbonomic
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 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

Azure Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Improve Group and Policy Setup UX for Common Use Cases

Improve the policy setup UX for common use cases such as one-time host and/or storage migrations. Ideas mentioned by the customer included an option to auto-create the groups and policies required to execute a plan in production, and/or using a wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release