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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add search field on the cloud Top Accounts page.

Currently you can search by account in the target list, or in the Search/Accounts list (which doesn't show you summary data), but if you go to the Top Accounts page, there is no way to easily search for the item you are looking for. This is really...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Add "Back" navigation to primary areas

When starting from the home screen it defaults to the Application tab. You then have to click Cloud tab and then Show All on the accounts widget, then scroll all the way down to find the one you're looking for. If you need to back out a level to l...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

VM Family upgrade to newer version even in case of no underutilization

We were looking if Turbo can provide any recommendation of VM Family upgrade even if there was no underutilization. For e.g when we compared the F series VM family, we could see the V2 version providing faster and cheaper VM of the same core. Whil...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

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, ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Future consideration

Signed Requests for SAML SSO

Hello, I am requesting with this IBM Idea the option to enable signed request for the SSO configuration. Our IDP has the requirement to only handle signed requests because of security purposes. Right now we got an exception to use unsigned request...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Planned for future release

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 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Planned for future release

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters in addition to FCI Clusters

many organization utilize AlwaysOn instead of FCI because AlwaysOn does not require shared storage.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Reflect host provision actions in the "Host Optimization Improvement" widget

In contrast to host suspension actions the "Host Optimization Improvement" widget does reflect host provisioning actions (see attached screenshot). According to engineering the reason is that the real-time market does not generate move actions bef...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Future consideration

Discover Azure Storage Account Soft Delete Capacities

Discovery Azure Storage accounts and their respective soft delete capacities. Based on the soft deleted capacities calculate size of soft deleted blobs providing the ability to save consumption costs for Azure Storage that is not easily visible to...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration