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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Pricing adjustments for all clouds

Currently there is a way to input a pricing adjustment for AWS services but not Azure or GCP. It's possible this info is derived another way but the configuration UI is inconsistent.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Policy Toggles to enable/disable a specific policy

Use case 1: Auto imported policies are not needed and are interfering with user defined policies. Enable a policy toggle to disable it at the policy level in Turbonomic so that no resources are affected by it. A bulk selection and disable menu ava...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Create an option for latest gen storage or instance types

Turbonomic could be able to help assist in lifecycle management activities by suggesting only newer (assuming less expensive) hardware types. This avoids having to update hundreds of policies where explicit selections were previously made. Example...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Add "Back" navigation to primary areas

When starting from the home screen it defaults to the Application tab. You then have to click Cloud tab and then Show All on the accounts widget, then scroll all the way down to find the one you're looking for. If you need to back out a level to l...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Rate of Resize without Limitation

Hello, we faced a strange problem where a VM with 5% utilization in the 95th percentile had no action. After investigation with the Support we came to the conclusion that it is like this because Turbonomic would scale down the VM below the Applica...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Application Topology Definition - Add support for missing entity types, e.g. Azure App Services entities

Application topology Definition currently only support the following entity types: Business Application Service Application Component Namespace Virtual Machine Workload Controller Database Database Server Other entity types such as App Component S...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Planned for future release

On-Prem Deployment using AWS IAM User assume role for all accounts

Instead of creating, managing, and configuring hundreds of IAM users for large AWS organization footprints, allow the use of a single iam user access key and secret and then a role to assume in order to collect the other account details. Either pa...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 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 1 Future consideration

Support for .Net from datadog

Ability to have application context for .Net applications
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic Target for Riverbed NPM.

It will help with more management and visibility context on the supply chain
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration