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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Parking runs into problems when VMs are too close to the Quota Limit

Business Case: Customer shut down 5 Azure VMs - and tried to turn them on in the morning - only 4 did- because the quota for that VM was exhausted. The Customer had to half the size of the machine - then it could start up. What would be REALLY goo...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Under review

Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

increase scope and usage visibility of Azure VM Reserved Instances

Currently Turbo recommends VI purchases at an Account/Subscription level. (it can also narrow in on Billing Families and Regions). Azure permits RIs to be limited to Enterprise, Management Group (that’s a collection of Subscriptions), Subscription...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Allow for file encryption keys to be provided by the customer and utilized in encryption of data at rest in the platform

Allow for customers of Turbonomic / ParkMyCloud to encrypt their data at rest in the platform by exposing an Azure KeyVault that Turbo can reach out to and connect/pull down rotating encryption keys. This allows the customer to maintain control of...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 2 Not under consideration

Turbonomic -ARM to work with GCP Cloud SQL

Need to add following capability to GCP Cloud SQL compatibility: action capabilities need to add Azure/AWS Savings Plans (vs RI's). We have visibility, actions capabilities need to add
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Planned for future release

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

Allow for the creation of Turbonomic groups based on VMware Virtual Machine Hardware Versions

As a user with a large VMware environment who is automating action execution through ServiceNow I would like the ability to create groups based on VM Hardware version. Turbonomic is currently recommending to increase the number of vCPU's outside t...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

No tags for empty vm specs

When we export App service plan Delete actions, We noticed that tags not appear, they're not there and would love to see them included. They only appear to be missing in Delete actions for VM spec.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow a user to set min/max number of nodes per any node pool in k8s

Long term: have a definition of a machineset/node group/node pool configuration that a user can define min/max number in terms of action generation and execution - A MachineSet (or any Node Group) could have a policy to control horizontal scaling ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Planned for future release