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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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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:...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Add list of Policies to bottom of Volume details page for consistency

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 this list on volumes.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Enable functionality to display Disk Size Utilization

While Turbonomic might not be able to take action to downsize a particular disk based on utilization, it would be a good value-add to present this data, so that users could see if they need to replace the drive with one more appropriately sized fo...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Provide more granular label in UI for AWS RDS Aurora Volume types

Currently the UI only shows that an RDS instance is on aurora storage but not which type. Aurora offers two types of storage I/O and Standard https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/Aurora.Overview.StorageReliability.html
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Turbonomic should be able to Suspend SQL Managed Instances

Turbonomic has suspend already for VMs and RDS servers. What about SQL MI? The customer would save on compute costs - but of course still have to pay for storage, etc.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Scaling Constraints could use more granular timeframe for observation period.

Currently the Minimum Observation Period max is 7 days. (you may need a couple weeks or month minimum to stabilize a workload). The Max Observation Period jumps from 30 days to 90 days. A happy medium in between like 45/60days would probably help ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Fix consistency of Action Essentials between entity types

Currently other entity types such as RDS and EBS show whether downtime is required or not but EC2 does not provide this warning. Currently the State says "Action can be accepted and executed immediately." which may be misleading to someone not pay...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Under review

Showing the Revision/Version of Azure Windows on Turbonomic Entity UI

Currently, in the Turbonomic Entity UI, "Windows" is shown under "OS and Software." However, in the Azure Console, "Operating system" is displayed as "Windows (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter)," showing details like the type of Windows OS and its R...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

AWS Sagemaker needs Turbos support to manage efficiency and performance

Amazon SageMaker is a managed service in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. It provides the tools to build, train and deploy machine learning (ML) models for predictive analytics applications . This can be very expensive - Turbo's help in...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

Allow simultaneous execution of multiple actions per GCP VM

Currently there is a limitation in Turbonomic for any GCP actions that are multiple actions (not just volume actions) belonging to the same VM. They cannot be executed simultaneously, and they need to be executed one at a time. Allowing for multip...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Under review