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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Park ASG's or VMSS from EKS/AKS clusters

As now, it's only supported park ASG's and VMSS's that is not related to k8s clusters. The demand is to shutdown and turn on an entire k8s clusters for cost savings. They are doing today using scripts and it's welcome bring this feature inside Tur...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Oracle ExaData Integration

Customer is using Oracle ExaData - x9m-2 & x8m-2 versions and interested to integrate with Turbonomic.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

We want to make a group of groups. Currently not possible

There are multiple business cases. ONE: A group of all the groups of prod servers that have been rightsized. And having that one group - enables the Turbonomic Tech Champion to keep an eye on them for performance issues. TWO: Group of Application...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Connect Turbonomic to Azure Database Watcher Fabric metrics store

Azure DB watcher is still in public preview and doesn't support all database types ie IaaS yet. It's great that Turbonomic already supports DB watcher and can connect to a data explorer cluster. It would be great if Turbonomic supported the MSFT f...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Not under consideration

Filter Parking entities by custom group

At the moment if we want to park a group of VM's using Turbo we can select by Resource Group or Subscription. It would be helpful to be able filter to a group of VM's defined in a custom group or related to a specific application topology
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

We want to restrict volume changes to ONLY performance and not efficiency.

The customer has a DR environment with lots of volumes. Turbo is recommending downsizes that the customer doesn't want. Right now Turbo policy has an option Prefer Savings Over Reversibility. But unlike VM policy we can't restrict changes to just ...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Ability to set a Maximum Utilization and Request Constraint for nodes in OCP/K8s clusters

As a customer, I need to be able to set a maximum utilization and requests I don't want to pass for nodes, regarding the sum of all requests of all pods running there. Use case is: for production environment, I want to be sure to have enough capac...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Planned for future release

Adding Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor.

Please add Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor for on-premises environments. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/virtualization/what-is-KVM
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration