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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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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...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Future consideration

Support for AWS Spot Instance Advisor

Turbonomic could use tighter integration with AWS Spot Instance Advisor, which recommends spot instances and spot instance usage optimizations for performance and cost, similar to Turbonomic with other instance types. While Turbonomic is aware of ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Ability to update Turbonomic via the UI

If we are able to provide the customers ability to update Turbonomic via the UI to provide a more seamless experience and reduce the tasks the customer needs to ssh to the instance/access the backend at all.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 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.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Suspend actions for On-Premisses VMs

After the release version 8.16.6, the new action Suspend is GA (https://ibmdocs-test.dcs.ibm.com/docs/en/SSFV9Z_test?topic=cloud-suspend-actions-vms) but just for Cloud VMs. We should expand to VMware too.

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

To be able to define custom roles

To be able to define adjust more in details users permissions.

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

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

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