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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Adjust Self-Managed Turbonomic License to Match Contract Terms

As for self-managed Turbonomic license, currently, even for officially ordered licenses, the license file that customers register contains the following details: Expiration Date: 2122-12-31 Quantity: 999,999,999 This is essentially unlimited and s...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0

I would like to be able to get from Turbo a listing of all on-prem DB servers with all of their targeted DBs.

Our DBAs would like a list of the current DBs in Turbo for several reasons. One reason is so that they can see which DBs are not in Turbo to get them added. For cloud DB servers, Turbo provides this, but for on-prem DB servers this isn't available...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

BMO's "WAS ND - Turbo scale out" requirement

One of the teams at BMO is exploring how Turbonomic can help adjust memory for workloads running on WebSphere ND, with the goal of enabling scale-out (add new server instances). This is part of a larger rightsizing effort led by their Infrastructu...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Dollar value for on-prem scaling - just like Cloud. Each action has a saving/cost to it.

The customer would like Turbo to put a price tag on each action. They want to be able to tell how much adding vMem or vCPU or a combo. to a VMware VM costs. The customer is aware that it depends on a bunch of things (cost/hr of host, cost/hr of da...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Planned for future release

Azure SQL Server License Improvements

1. Detect SQL Server Licenses when deployed from Azure Marketplace 2. Distinguish between AHUB for Windows and AHUB for SQL Server Current Limitation: All or nothing. If Windows AHUB license is detected, it is applied to all license types includin...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Show Parent Widget Name on Widget edit screen.

For example, if we would like to create a custom widget with "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity which used on "Cloud Executive Dashboard", but finding "Workload Cost Breakdown" commodity from "Add Widget" function is not a easy task unfotunatelly...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Get Parking recommended actions

Get Parking recommended actions for Azure.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Easily identify nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infra, masters)

Easily identify in the UI the nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infrastructure and masters).
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Turbonomic recommendations for backup servers

Telefónica has HP Apollo Backup servers (ProLiant XL420 Gen10) integrated with Veritas NetBackup software. The backup is something that fills up over time and there is often no good criterion for deleting old backups or reducing retentions for cer...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Not under consideration

Add a new column with sharing URL inside downloaded csv file of Turbo recommendations

Requests to include a column that includes the sharing URL for each recommendation.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Planned for future release