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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Turbonomic to give recommendations for Azure VM Scale Sets.

A lot of corporations have Azure VM Scale Sets which are improperly configured. They are set to scale OUT but not IN. And there is a lot of waste. Would love it if VM Scale Sets are treated differently and recommendations given - e..g SCALE IN for...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Support Azure Databases beyond MS SQL

Today Turbonomic only support DBaaS for Azure, workloads with DB Engine MS SQL Server. Customer have Postgres, MySQL and MariaDB too. My customer for instance has more than 50% of databases Postgres.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Add support for GCP SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale a GCP SQL instance.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

VVOL volumes are not providing data to Turbonomic. So the data cannot be stitched.

A customer with a vcenter target utilizing Pure Storage is missing storage capacity and usage information (storage access IOPS / latency) in Turbo for some VMs, but are getting those metrics for other VMs discovered from the same vCenter target , ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Vertical Node Scaling for Kubernetes Nodes on VM.

VM scaling is available for ESX infrastructure VMs, and disabled for any Kubernetes Node running on a VM. Would like to see vertical Node Scaling capability in situations that warrant it like masters and internal infrastructure Nodes that remain m...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Turbonomic Connector: Manual synchronization of approvals towards SNOW

Hello, With current implementation, all the recommendations generated by Turbo are synchronized towards SNOW and CRs are generated. This can cause "pollution" as we would like to see in SNOW only the recommendations we know they will be approved b...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Future consideration

Support for centralized Azure Hybrid Benefit (centralized AHUB)

Azure came up with Centralized AHUB support for SQL licenses. Similar in concept to CUDs, where the customers can create a pool of licenses and have the SQL instances (SQL databases, managed instances etc ) consume the license from the pool. When ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Batch operations

Hi, it would be very useful if it would be possible to do batch operations in the turbonomic ui. For example batch deletion, or batch creation of different things i.e Groups.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Action automation for Azure Scaleset VMs

Currently, Turbo only recommends actions for Azure Scaleset VMs, they cannot be executed automatically or manually. Unilever has about 12k - 15k Aks nodes added to Turbo now, in addition to about 500 VMs in scale sets. Customer wishes to automate ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration