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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Allow group creation whose filter parameter is another group

We have a large push for expedited rightsizing actions, but we have lots of unique workload types as expected of large corporations. App types can include clustered, HA, reverse SLO, and more. These complications disallow us from simply creating a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Google Cloud Run Support (serverless GKE)

As a user of Cloud Run, can Turbonomic help manage the tradeoffs of running services, maintaining a minimum number of replicas for the burst scenario, but avoiding unnecessary cost in idle services.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Method for dealing with Webhook Calls to Endpoints that are Throttled (HTTP 429)

When using webhooks from Turbonomic, some of the endpoints we can call are throttled. Because of this, when we make multiple calls at scale, many of our calls will receive a 429 and fail. For example, AWS Lambda functions only allow 10 API calls p...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Future consideration

configure RBAC on dashboards so that groups of people can edit/manage/view

The RBAC model isn't very mature, and if someone is an owner of a dashboard, only they can edit it. what happens if a change is needed when someone is away?Being able to group dashboards would also help with usability
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

Stop Azure Application Gateway via a schedule/policy to reduce costs when back-end pools are off line or shutdown.

Azure Application Gateways cannot be stopped/started via the Azure Web Portal, but they can be stopped or started using Azure CLI or Powershell. There is also a POST command API method to start/stop an Application Gateway that can be found in the ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Kubernetes Migrate Workload plan improvements: Cost

Turbonomic planning on kubernetes allows us to simulate scenarios to migrate workloads to different clusters to simulate how workloads could be supported on different node sizes. This is a workaround to having Turbo recommend what vertical size no...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

Within Turbo I should not only be able to see potential savings but the current cost of a business application

whilst turbo shows the potential savings of each change it also shows the current costs, however when looking at a wider scope like the business application this information is lost, ideally within the business application overview or details page...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Provide a "performance per watt" metric for environments

The idea of a "performance per watt" metric for hardware environments - particularly x86 platform - would be a good way of distinguishing between server types at a fundamental sustainability level. I suspect the metrics needed for this are already...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 2 Future consideration

NameSpace, Node Label Group Tag & AppCat Tags: Reports

Need to have Tag columns in the NameSpace widget view and downloaded spreadsheet view to be able to sort capacity by Node Label Group tag & by AppCat tag. Otherwise this is a tedious process to show the total AppCat's NameSpace Usage by Node L...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

To be able to change Scaling Target VMEM Utilization for On-Premises

Currently, almost all of my SQL Servers are considered to not have enough memory according to Turbonomic as it appears to want 70% free memory. This was told to me by support. This threshold is way above what VMware and Microsoft consider to be be...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration