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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources

Enable Manual & AI driven Parking actions support for On-Prem VMs & DB resources
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 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 ...
8 months 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"
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Multiple Resource Graph should have 3 day drop down range - in between Last 24 Hours and Last 7 Days

So Turbo keeps data per hour for the last 72 hours - then rolls it up. So it's a VERY USEFUL graph to look back at the last 3 days because it's the maximum duration to see data by the hour. The customer is looking at graphs for hours a day - and u...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 4 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...
almost 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...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 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.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Allow for successful VM Move actions when resource pool doesn't exist in destination cluster

When creating superclusters, Cluster A has a Resource Pool named ResourcePoolA and ClusterB has a Resource Pool only by the name of ResourcePoolB. Turbonomic will generate move actions from hosts in ClusterA to hosts in ClusterB, and those move ac...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release