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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Identify when OpenShift is running on baremetal correctly

Redhat OpenShift can be deployed on virtual machines or on baremetal, however all the screens in Turbo are assuming virtual machines are being used and displays all CPU memory value prefixed with "Virtual", so when you deploy on baremetal the labe...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Import AD and UI cert through UI

Today the customer's need to go through editing yaml files on the backend to be able to use secure ldap or importing a cert to to secure the Turbonomic UI or when using secure proxy when targeting cloud targets. All these scenarios need the custom...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic - Add support for Postgres databases (via APM targets, maybe as direct target)

Postgres is the no. 4 in the database market following Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL and one of the fasted growing db engines Turbonomic currently does not support Postgres yet neither as target nor via APM tools. Please add support for Postgres databas...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Add support for GCP SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale a GCP SQL instance.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Application component actions don't have enough information

If you check the application component pending actions (heap resize) and extract the list to a spreadsheet or print the screen, there's nothing to separate for each area. There's no column for Account or Container cluster as example. In this case,...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

Allow staggering of high impact changes

Problem: App teams: "we cannot have these X number of vms down at the same time" Infra engineers: "we cannot support manual policy creation for each execution schedule for each set of X VMs to reboot in the same CHG window" Description: We have ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Plan improvements: Downloading all plan results

Turbonomic planning allows us to simulate scenarios to migrate workloads to different clusters to simulate how workloads could be supported on different node sizes. This is a workaround to having Turbo recommend what vertical size node would be be...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

When a script is part of a resize policy the vCPU & vMEM actions are executed together.

Execution of pending actions are completed immediately instead of backing off or executing separately extending the change window. Fewer number of reboots to complete pending actions including vMEM, vCPU, socket matching compliance. Script complet...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

SQL Server Target Enhancement

Hi Team, Currently we can add only one port for SQL server Database targets but if there are multiple SQL server instances with different ports then we need to add multiple targets so I would suggest there should be option to add multiple ports in...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration