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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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vm automation policies when vm state is idle - include actions also against any attached volumes

All public cloud scale events require downtime. Downtime involves stopping any services running on these IaaS instances during an action execution activity. If a vm has a park schedule or maintenance window, then this is the ideal time to resize (...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 7 Planned for future release

enable 'resize when powered off' to work with public cloud vm's

Anyone with public cloud vm's where they want to create an automation policy that executes only when a said vm is idle
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Planned for future release

Enhance Swagger APIs to automate a few daily tasks

We are looking for programming a few reports generation and certain basic inquiries tasks on python. But we got to know existing Swagger APIs do not have oauth token creation option. Also, when checked for APIs access, locally created user is allo...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Functionality already exists

Add "Cluster Tags" to VM group creation

Currently there is not a way to create VM groups based on its cluster tag. This feature would provide a great way to create dynamic groups based on something we can extract from vCenter from other use cases. For example, say I have a supercluster ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Add Cloud IP Management to Turbonomic

The client has shown a keen interest in Turbonomic being able to monitor and automate actions related to IPs in the Cloud. Following a recent discussion with their Cloud Provider, they learned that IP prices are slated to surge by fivefold. Conseq...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

Allow a way to view multiple account groups at once

Currently you can create an account group based on a given set of names/tags/etc. However there is not a way to create a parent level account group that contains related Account Groups that have totally different naming/tagging. This is useful whe...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic support for Management Group scope Reservations (Azure)

As a Cloud Administrator, I would like Turbonomic Actions to consider my Reserved Instances scoped to my Management Groups in Azure so I can ensure that the actions being recommended by Turbonomic will not scale out of an RI. Azure RI’s can be app...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future 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 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Planned for future release

Providing a model in ThoughtSpot to manage cloud billing data

Providing a model in ThoughtSpot to manage cloud billing data Currently, it’s not possible to create reports in ThoughtSpot based on cloud billing data, as there is no model provided for it.(For example, it's not possible to create a report like "...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Not under consideration