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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Azure Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

We want to make a group of groups. Currently not possible

There are multiple business cases. ONE: A group of all the groups of prod servers that have been rightsized. And having that one group - enables the Turbonomic Tech Champion to keep an eye on them for performance issues. TWO: Group of Application...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Automatically enable CPU and Memory hotadd

I would like to see a policy option for enabling hot-add as part of a pre or post action. this would simply adoption and onboarding of Virtual machines.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Planned for future release

Proxy support for SaaS client

Hi team, There is a big limitation on customers using Turbo on SaaS and wanting to connect on-premise. The SaaS client ova does not support proxy, which a common piece in all customers. In the real life means if you have Turbo SaaS, then you canno...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Not under consideration

Allow to be build a policy to generate VM delete action for VM being idle for a defined number of days or VM delete actions or at least a list of VMs probably no longer used (minimal CPU usage, no networktraffic, etc.)

Based on Idea TURBO-I-450 (meature and display days a VM is being idle) please allow to set a policy to generate delte actions for VMs beiing idle for x days. In addition to that, allow to set a policy as it is available with all the cloud optimiz...

Allow a user to set min/max number of nodes per any node pool in k8s

Long term: have a definition of a machineset/node group/node pool configuration that a user can define min/max number in terms of action generation and execution - A MachineSet (or any Node Group) could have a policy to control horizontal scaling ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Allow a method to report on cost savings (lost/hidden) by policy

Allow a way to look at actions that would be generated by policy but that are excluded. Example: If I create a policy to generate no actions on a specific subscription, I would like to be able to see what the "potential" savings are that are hidde...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

See VM's Group Membership

I’d like to see what Turbo groups a server belongs to when scoped to that server.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

The ability to execute pre and post scripts for parking VMs to make sure certain processes are up/down

We want the ability to run pre and post scripts to parking actions. these scripts can include commands to validate that certain processes are shutdown or have the script shut them down as well as make sure that certain processes are up when we pow...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Clearly indicate policy hierarchy in the UI

As a user I would like the ability to understand the hierarchy overrides for policy settings, so I can have accurate expectations about the outcome of applying a policy.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release