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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Extend Turbo's parking/suspending capabilities to on-premises VMs

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending functionality to VMs in vmware/hyper-v enviornments. For all the same reasons Turbo supports parking VMs in the cloud, Turbo should extend this functionality to on-prem workloads. By turning off idle resources, Tu...

Include date in projected end timestamp for schedules

If you set an end time of 1464 hours later, for example, you'll get a message like: Occurs once effective Tue, Aug 20, 2024 starting at 14:00 and finishing 61 days later at 14:00. This idea is for including a timestamp at the end time: Occurs once...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Allow resizing of a VM when the VM is not running

Scale actions to resize or change the instance type of a VM in Azure do not function on a VM that is stopped/deallocated. Many of our VMs are scheduled to be stopped outside of normal business hours. We also have a schedule policy to have "execute...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic Target for Riverbed NPM.

It will help with more management and visibility context on the supply chain
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Allow greater control over "externalTaskTimeoutMin" API setting by action type

Every different action type has dramatically different timeout expectations. For example, a compute vmotion should have a relatively lower timeout (<45 min), whereas a storage vmotion should account for a longer timeout, with some taking severa...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Under review

Consistent Resizing for Storage

Extend the concept of consistent sizing for grouped servers to storage on the grouped servers. For instance, if i have servers in a cluster or servers that have been grouped together via tagging and rule, if there is a recommendation for storage, ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Future consideration

Would like to have VMWare vCPU Shares (low, normal, high) as an attributes for filtering

To filtered down to VMs that has a certain vCPU shares settings. e.g. If all SQL VM should have "High" shares, we can quickly find if there is any SQL VM that has been misconfigured to have "low" or "normal" shares.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Support for parking of Azure Analysis Services

Azure analysis services is used for our reporting data model and not needed during off hours.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration