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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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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...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Function to notify maintenance downtime in advance (SaaS Turbonomic)

As you can see in SaaS services such as Salesforce, if downtime occurs due to maintenance, it would be good to have a function that notifies us in advance. (For example, from about a week before maintenance, a notification screen will be displayed...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Not under consideration

Parking runs into problems when VMs are too close to the Quota Limit

Business Case: Customer shut down 5 Azure VMs - and tried to turn them on in the morning - only 4 did- because the quota for that VM was exhausted. The Customer had to half the size of the machine - then it could start up. What would be REALLY goo...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Under review

Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future 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 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 5 Planned for future release

On-Prem Deployment using AWS IAM User assume role for all accounts

Instead of creating, managing, and configuring hundreds of IAM users for large AWS organization footprints, allow the use of a single iam user access key and secret and then a role to assume in order to collect the other account details. Either pa...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

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. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Want to see if it might be possible to do "forcive"/"planning" sizing

Would like to see if there might be a way to force sizing actions when needed . Have several situations where we want to do **non-usage based sizing** what I call = "planning sizing" . Use cases are - where app owners have done load testing and kn...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Future consideration

Allow simultaneous execution of multiple actions per GCP VM

Currently there is a limitation in Turbonomic for any GCP actions that are multiple actions (not just volume actions) belonging to the same VM. They cannot be executed simultaneously, and they need to be executed one at a time. Allowing for multip...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release