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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Need a way to export/download the PLAN report in PDF

We are using the PLAN every month and have to send the report to the customer, but currently there is no way to export/download the PLAN report. We end-up using the browser print function to save it to PDF but the formatting is all messy doing it ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Add a policy to block VDIs or a method to clearly distinguish them

Turbonomic does not support scale actions for Azure VDIs, as documented. Based on the performance data and Azure Advisor Recommendations, I expected a scale-down for a VM. However, Turbonomic displays these VDIs as regular VMs in the Supply Chain ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Add more info for the display of "No Data Available" to distinguish whether data is unavailable or there is no data.

For example, with"Nesessary Investment" widget, if there is none of Investment related actions, it shows "No Data Available"....but it should be showing as "No proposal" ... I would like to be able to distinguish between them. (Data should be avai...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Add support for IBM Cloud

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support IBM Cloud. The customer hope Turbonomic will support IBM Cloud. They ask us fo...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

ThoughtSpot needs to have helpful out of the box reports and dashboards standard like Grafana day 1

Since ThoughtSpot doesn't have immediately available canned reports and dashboards like Grafana, I recommend enabling ThoughtSpot's AI. With the assistance of the AI customers will be able to quickly create meaningful reports, KPI's and live board...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Functionality already exists

Workload sets - when an entity is added to a workload set it can no longer be searched in workload sets or workloads to see how its parking has been configured?

By making the entity unsearchable - it can make the entity appear to not even exist?
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking 2

Azure Arc workloads.

Hello Team, I kindly request the inclusion of Azure Arc resources to be managed as part of the Parking feature. This addition would enable us to extend the usage of Parking to our on-premise environments as well as other cloud service providers. T...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking 0 Under review

Add an "at least" option to go up to maximum when scaling up and down to minimum when scaling down

Today, Turbonomic calculates the desired sizing of a VM and then generates an action to go there. Currently if there's a minimum set in a policy, Turbonomic could just discard the action if the Desired State is below the minimum and then not resiz...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Provide a native capability in Turbonomic to automatically suppress or mute optimization actions across for AWS EBS volumes associated with EMR workloads

AWS EMR clusters dynamically create and terminate EC2 instances and their attached EBS volumes as standarised persistant storage and generates resize or performance optimization recommendations. In most cases these recommendations provide a limite...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Would like to see parent Azure service principal in each of the Azure subscriptions (children) in the Related targets tab

Currently, the Azure service principal creates child targets for each subscription that it can discover in the Turbonomic target configuration page. When you click on ellipses on right, next to the subscription to view it, then click on the Relate...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review