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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources

Enable Manual & AI driven Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 3 Planned for future release

Need to be able to export Turbonomic data to 2 different locations

We have a need to export Turbonomic data to 2 different targets. We are currently exporting data to ThoughtSpot, and also need to be able to export data to our DataLake.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

More Elastic Scaling: Remove hardcoded restrictions on maximum observation period

For those customers that want to unleash Turbonomic to unlock elasticity in the cloud, we use the percentile and observation settings to help influence Turbo's decision making. However, it appears there are hardcoded limits to the minimum/maximum ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Planned for future release

ORACLE TARGET SUPPORT

CLIENT: "I’d like the Oracle targets to be enhanced so a target can connect to multiple servers like the SQL targets can"
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Planned for future release

Provide a warning when internal certificates are about to expire

Rather than being surprised when internal certificates have expired when on the CLI (which is rare and usually only when doing upgrades), gives us a heads up in the UI.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Group the actions in ServiceNow - and then let the App Owner approve the VM rightsize actions from the one CR.

Group the actions in Snow - and then let the App Owner approve the VM rightsize actions from the one CR. And is able to select some or all of them. Otherwise the app owners will get deluged with multiple individual changes coming in to approve/rej...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Planned for future release

Improve SuperCluster Implementation & Configuration

SuperClustering is one of the more unique & useful features that enables a lot of functionality across environments within Turbonomic. Unfortunately, it can be extremely cumbersome to implement SuperClustering due to requiring specific merge p...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Import DRS Virtual Machine Options settings

Today, Turbo imports DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules. These rules help customers keep VMs together, apart, or only on certain hosts. Some customers (Facebook, NBC) use DRS's Virtual Machine Options to override DRS automation. This settings ar...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release

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