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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Please add Nutanix API v4 so Turbonomic be able to read the OS and Software from VMs

Clients are moving fast to Acropolis/Nutanix. Turbonomic is able to read the VMs, but cannot retrieve the OS nor the Software. We opened ticket TS019101805 where we received the following reply: "I spoke with engineering about the "Unknown" OS for...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

Leverage AWS IAM Roles Anywhere to connect to AWS from Turbonomic

Need to leverage AWS IAM Roles Anywhere to connect to AWS. This is important as several organizations using AWS are moving towards IAM roles Anywhere. IAM Roles Anywhere extends the functionality of standard IAM roles, enabling workloads outside o...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Support Scaling Actions for GCP Sole Tenancy Workloads

In GCP you can deploy workloads on Sole Tenancy Nodes, typically large projects. We would want to optimize workloads running on sole tenancy nodes to achieve more savings. Currently, Turbo discovers those workloads without actions.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

RI plans for items other than VM

Volumes, SQL Databases (vCore), Blob storage? Other RI plans / Savings plan projections would be excessively useful!
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Future consideration

Need API to gain secret from instance so it does not need to be stored in metadata. Related to OAuth2

We would like the ability to dynamically get a client secret for an OAuth2 client using an API call. We have many tools and processes that rely on the Turbo API and this would allow us to more easily enable automation and avoid the need to manage ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Add option to add EDP to effective rate

Add option to add EDP to effective rate. This would show a more accurate savings cost.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

CosmosDB autoscaling options

With MSFT turning on Autoscale V2 features, there's a number of CosmosDB databases running at the lowest levels, but that CAN benefit from turning on Autoscaling. Having this feature enabled as an OPTION in CosmosDB / Turbonomic would be excessive...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

In the 'Actions' tab, show the sum for the cost impact column for on-demand costs without factoring in savings plans

There was a change made around the first week of January 2025. A toggle of on-demand versus effective was added.We'd like to see what the on-demand savings are without any savings plan being a factor.Most of the cost impact are showing $0.00.FinOp...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

More robust scheduling options for workflows

Please look into expanding the scheduling options for automation workflows and parking workflows. I think this would be extremely beneficial. Right now, I have a use case where we have certain servers that stay off until they are needed, such as c...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

VVOL volumes are not providing data to Turbonomic. So the data cannot be stitched.

A customer with a vcenter target utilizing Pure Storage is missing storage capacity and usage information (storage access IOPS / latency) in Turbo for some VMs, but are getting those metrics for other VMs discovered from the same vCenter target , ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration