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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add support for Azure Reservation for Services other than Virtual Machines e.g. Azure SQL and AWS Reserved Instances for AWS RDS

Turbonomic is currently supporting Azure Virtual Machine Reservations and AWS EC2 Reserved Instances ensuring that the existing reservation portfolio is optimally utilized, but Azure is offering reservation for a lot of service also supported by T...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Under review

Azure San/NetApp, Netapp files, or Azure Native Pure Storage Cloud support?

Many of these targets are supported in some form or another today on prem, but I'm curious if they can be targeted in the cloud in Azure (or other CSPs)
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic (Cloud) integration with Microsoft Azure Client/Custom Policies

We define policies in Microsoft Azure to provide subscription management for Virtual Machine size limitations. Turbonomic cannot currently read custom Azure policy and will therefore recommend, and attempt, to resize certain VM sizes. These Turbon...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Restricting access to Turbo platform

Due to security requirements, the customer has requested to block any user from accessing the Turbo SaaS platform from IP addresses other than those they specify. In customer's other systems, IP whitelisting is implemented through the instance’s f...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Retroactive proposals (before 90 days)

I want you to make recommendations using any 90 days of data from the past.Not the last 90 days.The goal is to provide recommendations that take into account past load peaks so that users can perform optimizations in a planned manner. Attach a ref...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 2 Future consideration

VMware CPU&Memory Limit value adjusting for optimization

Recently, Turbonomic supported to configure hot-add parameter on VMware VM configuration. Customer hope to do configuration also CPU&Memory Limit value by Turbononmic for optimization in the case Limit value configured on VMware VM (vCenter's ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Functionality already exists

Action Persistence score

The Turbonomic ideal is that Customers trust our actions – and automate so that those Cloud VM scale actions happen automatically – perhaps every night. This is NOT what happens in the real world. Customers or App Teams have problems either trusti...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Planned for future release

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses

Ability to narrow down virtual machines covered by licenses For example, suppose there are 3,000 EC2 virtual machines in one AWS account. In that case, under the current Turbonomic structure, 3,000 machines (3,000 licenses) are required on an MVS ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Azure Services like Databricks, or AKS that create VMs should appear as a property in those VM entities.

With these properties being visible, Customer can create policies to exclude from policies VMs that are being managed by Azure Services. Customer can create UNPARKABLE collections based on Azure Services. Right now with 1000s of VMs, there is too ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Not under consideration

Recommending the ideal configuration based on demand "forecasts".

Currently, Turbonomic actions can only be generated based on historical statistical data. However, we would like to receive recommendations for optimal configuration in advance, anticipating events such as the annual busy season that will occur ne...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release