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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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The Cost Savings Per Month field which is available in downloads - add it to the API

Large customers use the API to blend this data with Portfolio Management Data - the cost savings is a KEY prioritization parameter to get actions taken.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Park ASG's or VMSS from EKS/AKS clusters

As now, it's only supported park ASG's and VMSS's that is not related to k8s clusters. The demand is to shutdown and turn on an entire k8s clusters for cost savings. They are doing today using scripts and it's welcome bring this feature inside Tur...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Modify Turbonomic recommendations / actions before I approve them

When I negotiate a lesser reduction with an App owner, I would like to modify Turbo’s recommendation and still have Turbo perform the action. Having Turbonomic perform the action is advantageous because Turbo can then report that the action was ta...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

From a VM object at VM level, see all groups it's a part of

I have a VM that I'm trying to test policies on. It is also part of another policy that has a very large subset of scoped vms, named with a sequence of letters and numbers. It's not easy to determine which group it is in, and remove it from that g...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add "180 /365 days" and/or "any number of days" for Max Observation Period

Requests:.1.Add 180 days and 365 days to max observation period2.Make it possible to set any number of days for max observation period (e.g. 14 days, 60 days, etc.) Background:.Japanese customers often have stable system environments and request l...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Update kubernetes certificate when an instance is upgraded (OVA only issue)

I recently had an issue with a large financial customer where I made a license change and it caused the instance to show that none of the targets were validated any longer. After some troubleshooting, I found a certificate had expired. We worked w...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 9 Not under consideration

Dell Unisphere for Powermax (Storage) support

Customer is using Dell Unisphere for Powermax (Storage) - v9.2.1.8 and interested to integrate with Turbonomic
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Oracle ExaData Integration

Customer is using Oracle ExaData - x9m-2 & x8m-2 versions and interested to integrate with Turbonomic.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

We need cloud provider column in the Pending Actions download file.

Analyzing all the data is tedious - why do we have to create a special column to separate the data. Turbo is supposed to by hybrid and multicloud
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration