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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Azure Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic support for IBM Cloud.

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support IBM Cloud. The customer hope Turbonomic will support IBM Cloud. They ask us fo...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Not under consideration

Automatically enable CPU and Memory hotadd

I would like to see a policy option for enabling hot-add as part of a pre or post action. this would simply adoption and onboarding of Virtual machines.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 5 Planned for future release

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Can't use REGEX in ACCOUNT as a filter when creating Virtual Machine and Volume groups

You can't use REGEX in ACCOUNT filter when creating Virtual Machine group. Customers have hundreds of accounts and need to roll one by one clicking. This slow down the management process and lead to human errors.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Plot historical percentile values in "Prove It" UI when actions are taken

Today, using VM resize actions as an example, we only show the percentile value based on the current capacity of the resource. When customers take an action to either resize up or resize down to bring the percentile back into its desired state, th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Keep billing data statistics based on the Data Retention policy (currently, it can only display up to 30 days at maximum)

Currently, Cost Breakdown Charts can display data from the last 7 or 30 dayshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.11.0?topic=types-cost-breakdown-charts On the other hand, according to the Data Retention Policy as whole turbonomic, it is possible to ...

Add the ability for the optional use of Key Based Authentication

We have a business use case around key based authentication. We have a group that would like to provide data for Power VM probe but are having issues with AD base authentication as they use key based for the rest of there processes. We would like ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration