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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Lifecycle management for unattached disks

Introduce a lifecycle management process for unattached disks to optimize storage efficiency. This includes: Automated Tiering: Move unattached disks from hot to cold tier based on usage and detached status (detached >= 45 days) Analytics/Reass...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Restricting access to Turbo platform

Due to security requirements, the customer has requested to block any user from accessing the Turbo SaaS platform from IP addresses other than those they specify. In customer's other systems, IP whitelisting is implemented through the instance’s f...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Optimizing the VM Bursting Model

In the bursting model of VMs, I would like you to monitor the amount of credit accumulation and consumption and make optimization suggestions. For example, changing to a model with larger credits or to a model other than a burst model. ■AWS EC2 (T...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

GitOps integration: support for bitbucket+ArgoCD

We are starting a Turbonomic deployment in Intesa Sanpaolo; they asked for integration with their GitOps process to apply changes in RHOCP clusters; Turbonomic actions related to RHOCP target should be applied to their bitbucket repository instead...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

Display hot add memory and cpu information on Entity Information widget

Provide visibility on whether a VM has hot add enabled for CPU and MEM from the entity detail
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

In the 'Actions' tab, show the sum for the cost impact column for on-demand costs without factoring in savings plans

There was a change made around the first week of January 2025. A toggle of on-demand versus effective was added.We'd like to see what the on-demand savings are without any savings plan being a factor.Most of the cost impact are showing $0.00.FinOp...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Change the information displayed on the Target configuration screen to something more useful.

On there target configuration screen it displays the "Last modified" date, while useful, last successful connection date would be much more useful. Display "Last modified" in the edit or view. In the attached screenshot it shows two connections do...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration