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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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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

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Stop count licenses for unsupported workloads

We have some workloads in Turbonomic that is not supported, like AWS Spot Instances and GCP Custom VMs. We still read and bring those workloads, but count them as a license consumption. We should not count them until fully GA of the feature and pr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Snapshot Removal

Snapshots are often taken and forgotten in the environment. They cause both unwanted storage use and performance issue to VMs if left around too long. Would like to be able to create an automation to remove\consolidate snapshots for groups based o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Planned for future release

Create an Account level policy entity type

When accounts have many different resource entity types, it's very cumbersome to create a generic policy for half a dozen resource types across dozens of accounts. If there was an Account policy type, high-level settings such as Action Generation:...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Enable a manual override to stop failing actions in the queue

Currently if there is an issue with permissions or a policy conflict, actions that were manually executed will continue to retry (appears to be indefinitely?) There should be a way to cancel that action so that the logs aren't filled with one-time...

Support to MongoDB Atlas (SaaS)

Hello ! Will be very helpful to a general context of our costs if Turbonomic add as possible target our MongDB Atlas in SaaS Today only have RDS AWS, SQLServer, MYSQL and Oracle Have MongoDB will give a full path and full information about costs a...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

Please version KubeTurbo helm chart in Chart.yaml when the Helm chart changes

Whenever the Helm chart changes for KubeTurbo, please also update the version number in the associated Chart.yaml file. The Helm chart for deploying KubeTurbo is here: https://github.com/turbonomic/kubeturbo/tree/master/deploy/kubeturbo We are wor...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Planned for future release

Provide user notification of unsupported cloud instance type

As CSPs release new instance types and the customer deploys them to their environment before Turbo has implemented support, notify the user of the unsupported instance types. This will ensure that the user knows that action generation is suppresse...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Future consideration

Add list of groups to bottom of Details page

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see a list of group memberships since all policies are tied to a group and it...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration