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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Capability for adding Targets in Google Cloud Platform - CloudSQL/BigTable etc

In the current versions of Turbonomic, there is no capability for finding Google Cloud Platform - Cloud SQL and other databases as targets. Its a high time as many of our customers are adopting to GCP.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Under review

Enhanced Role-Base Access Control: Additive permissions resulting from multiple external group memberships

If a user is a member of multiple external groups, Turbonomic authenticates the user through the first group that was returned during the SSO or AD authentication. This requires that the use of disjoint SSO or AD Groups for Turbonomic authenticati...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Planned for future release

Turbonomic Temporary Elevated Access for SSO Users

My engineers that support our Turbonomic SaaS Platform require "Site Administrator" access. Now that we're doing automation in Production, it's increasingly dangerous for "Site Administrator" to be our default level of access in the UI. I would ra...
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Turbonomic: Add support to install OVA on Nutanix Acropolis (not just target support)

As a customer, we need Turbonomic to support installations of on-prem Turbonomic servers, including SaaS components on Nutanix.Nutanix publishes a how-to for importing an OVA and running it. However this needs to be tested and supported by the pro...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 15 Planned for future release

Request for Alibaba Cloud (AliCloud) Support in Turbonomic

Dear Turbonomic Production Team, Turbonomic currently lacks support for Alibaba Cloud, and I strongly believe that incorporating this support would be invaluable, especially given the significant presence of Alibaba Cloud in the Chinese market. No...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Not under 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...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Actions for Cloud SQL on GCP

Hello friends. A client migrated part of their applications from Azure to GCP. After migration, the client applied a series of cost-saving actions, but they missed actions for PaaS databases on GCP, actions that they had on Azure. My suggestion/re...
27 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Change units in downloaded csv file with recommendations

The units appear in KB and the client requests GB. It is a much more manageable and realistic unit given the current sizes.
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review
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Enable Turbonomic to support Red Hat OpenStack and any OpenStack

I have a client who have Turbonomic subscription and use Red Hat OpenStack and Ubuntu OpenStack as standard virtual machine infrastructure. The latest version of Turbonomic do not support OpenStack. We need to request add Openstack support in prod...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 12 Future consideration