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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.

Provide integration with CyberArk and/or gMSA into SQL Probe for password access/management/key rotation.in organizations where security is paramount (which is the majority of companies now) it is a security threat to have Service Accounts where i...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Future consideration

Allow resizing action of namespace quota

We, IBM CIO, set default namespace quotas in OpenShift clusters. However, some applications need to use more resources than the default resource quotas set. Either due to a technical reason or business criticality. Today, we need to contact SRE te...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic administrator needs to know who's created / edited groups & policies.

It's an auditing requirement from internal Infosec teams. It would be used to validate changes made from internal teams or department leads to ensure valid change control processes were maintained.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

In Turbonomic Segments view of Policies, allow sort/filter/group by Type (e.g. Host Merge, Storage Merge, Network Merge under Merges)

The one-layer depth to the Turbonomic Segments portion of policies makes for difficult searching and sorting. Adding additional filters at each of these pages would help reduce noise and improve ease of management. I have submitted similar ideas i...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Allow use of VLAN ID for network matching for segmentation

Today, to verify a VM can live on another vCenter, Turbonomic checks the port group name to ensure match and that the same network is available at the destination. This idea is to match on the VLAN ID instead of the port group name string.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

Provide Turbonomic Database Integration for Db2 on LUW

Turbonomics today has the capability to observe database performance and provide tuning recommendations for SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle. This functionality should be extended to include Db2 for LUW.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

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

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

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...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration