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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Fix Actions Taken list on the Top Accounts page.

When Navigating from the home page, to Cloud, Top Accounts, Show All, there is a column for number of actions available. (in the old UI) In the new UI this useful column was eliminated. Whether viewing in the UI or downloading that list, the Actio...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Functionality already exists

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

expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Remove requirement to set Automation level on every Volume policy

Currently, with VM policies, you can add or ignore every variable in the policy menu. By this i mean that i can have a policy blocking instance types, and i don't have to also select Manual or Automatic. I can leave that section blank and allow ot...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Allow to be build a policy to generate VM delete action for VM being idle for a defined number of days or VM delete actions or at least a list of VMs probably no longer used (minimal CPU usage, no net

Based on Idea TURBO-I-450 (measure and display days a VM is being idle) please allow to set a policy to generate delete actions for VMs being idle for x days. In addition to that, allow to set a policy as it is available with all the cloud optimiz...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

The ability to execute pre and post scripts for parking VMs to make sure certain processes are up/down

We want the ability to run pre and post scripts to parking actions. these scripts can include commands to validate that certain processes are shutdown or have the script shut them down as well as make sure that certain processes are up when we pow...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Get skupper-router in the SaaS product to use a valid cert signed by a public CA for TLS transport during token exchange with on-prem appliance

Token exchange is failing through our transparent Internet proxies because an untrusted internal CA certificate from the skupper-router is being used for both TLS transport and mTLS. The untrusted cert is causing the connection to be reset by the ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings to avoid customer confusion

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings Turbonomic is showing both cloud and on-prem policy settings when cloud VMs settings are ignored (cloud VMs settings should not appear to avoid customer confusion) For customers that have ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Azure offer reservations for Azure CosmosDB. Can we see and recommend CosmosDB reservations please?

Azure offers 65% discounts on COSMOS - this can save the customer a lot of money if properly managed. Turbo could help the client make the right decisions. Rightsize FIRST - then Recommend COSMOS RI SECOND
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration