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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add the Hours Idle field to VMs

The customer, HCSC, desires to create policies on cloud VMs based on how many hours they have been idle. Currently, IBM Turbonomic only supports the Hours Idle parameter for PaaS Synapse databases.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Provide a means of formatting time properties in Webhook workflows

As a user I would like the ability to format time properties for webhooks as Unix epoch milliseconds rather than iso8601, so I can store the action times in an external systems and plot them on a timeline, allowing me to correlate when the Turbono...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Follow VM start & stop order on vSphere policy

After vSphere v6.7,  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-7A132146-2779-4F4B-B39D-EE4F129DB79C.html There is a feature that allows administrators to control the order in which VMs are started and stopp...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Improve stitching where multiple services are backed by the same workload

Turbo should be able to handle multiple services that are front-ending the same workload PM update: Will convert this to an improvement on how Turbonomic stitches Services to Containerized Workload to be handled under 2 master epics: Multiple Serv...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Parking support for serverless service, like fargate

Currently, AWS serverless service, Fargate cannot be optimized. However, customer think it's useful just to be able to control that suspend for fargate service. *Currently, it is troublesome to control with scripts. Extend Parking functionality to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Ed25519 ssh keys when adding ActionScript target

When configuring the ActionScript target, the target discovery failed using Ed25519 ssh keys. The error says 'Could not extract key pair elements from provided string’. The recommendation within the bank is to Ed25519 ssh keys. When changing to RS...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Future consideration

Cloud scaling actions in AWS should also include instance-level network performance metrics to assure performance after being executed

The following link (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/amazon-ec2-instance-level-network-performance-metrics-uncover-new-insights/) was provided by our cloud ops team when discussions were held regarding the validity of T...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

When Turbo lists “vCenter” as the source, I would like the specific vCenter noted – similar to how it lists cloud accounts.

When having multiple vCenter's this will help the client specifically identify which vCenter Turbo is recommending actions for.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

Add Timeframes: Last Month, This Month

All cloud providers work in Calendar months. Each calendar month, a cloud vendor issues an invoice for all consumption in the previous month. Therefore, in a FinOps environment, every customer wants to understand the following: "what did I actuall...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 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