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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Allow a way to view multiple account groups at once

Currently you can create an account group based on a given set of names/tags/etc. However there is not a way to create a parent level account group that contains related Account Groups that have totally different naming/tagging. This is useful whe...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Clearly indicate policy hierarchy in the UI

As a user I would like the ability to understand the hierarchy overrides for policy settings, so I can have accurate expectations about the outcome of applying a policy.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Additional targets/resources to Parking

Support for parking targets/resources instances such as: - MongoDB Atlas (SaaS) instances - AWS Documentb - Databricks (PaaS and SaaS)
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

It will be greate if turbo resizing action has custom actions like updating other k8s deployment config

When turbo adjust the cpu/memory resource and limits size the container deployments readiness/liveliness probe will be set for the initial values user set when cpu/memory gets resized the container might not be ready in that given time and it will...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Not under consideration

As a user I would like to push Kafka topics to multiple brokers/consumers, so that I can use built-in SaaS reporting as well as provide the data for internal BI teams

Please see attached for details for consideration. It would provide great benefit to be able to utilize kafka connectors to asynchronously push data to other consumers rather than the current 1:1 producer:consumer to data explorer today.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Azure Sql Db scaling shouldn't only consider DTUS but also IOPS

This customer has an application which is very sensitive to IOPS. They specifically chose Premium Tier DTU , as it has MUCH more IOPS. >25 IOPS per DTU vs 1-4 IOPS per DTU. So when Turbonomic sees the DTU usage (which is a combination of CPU/ME...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 2 Not under consideration

Gamify Savings in Turbonomic to encourage competition.

Some of the biggest hurdles in achieving efficiency savings in Turbonomic is competing priorities. Some of the successes at companies to achieve Turbo driven savings, is to create a competitive game between departments and/or app teams on savings....
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Adding Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor.

Please add Redhat KVM as a supported hypervisor for on-premises environments. https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/virtualization/what-is-KVM
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

The customer would like the ability to create an "Actions" widget in their dashboard to showcase the action executed for a particular business unit. We created groups for these business units in Turbo based on customer tags but that scope is not supported in the "Actions" widget

Being able to showcase actions executed on the basis of a business group would allow for more friendly competition within departments to get a "better turbo score" and track their individual teams progress.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Remove requirement to set Automation level on every Volume policy

Currently, with VM policies, you can add or ignore every variable in the policy menu. By this i mean that i can have a policy blocking instance types, and i don't have to also select Manual or Automatic. I can leave that section blank and allow ot...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Not under consideration