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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add a column on the "List of Virtual Macines" view to show the hostname of the host where each VM is running on

This is particular important for on-premise environment where we need to see the VM-to-Host mapping (true for both VMWare and Power VM)
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Cloud Repatriation Scenario - Migrating from Public Cloud to On-Prem

Customers are looking for solutions to move away their workloads from Public Cloud to On-Prem due to lock-in and cost related issues. There are no ready to use tools available to do this assessment, hence most of the time it is manual and based on...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2

Tailor the views for observer role with a defined scope to only show the entities defined in the target group

Integration: On-prem VMware integration. Entity type: Virtual machine In large enterprise, the hypervisor, clusters and nodes are maintained by a centralised team. This team is responsible for automation, moving VMs to remove contention, maintain ...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

Enable VMEM and VCPU Minimum Thresholds for Cloud based VMs

When dealing with 3rd party products, support plans, and licensing, there are often constraints placed on systems for preserving a minimum specification. Same would be true for maximums when it comes to things like database licensing that is tied ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings to avoid customer confusion

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings Turbonomic is showing both cloud and on-prem policy settings when cloud VMs settings are ignored (cloud VMs settings should not appear to avoid customer confusion) For customers that have ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Support parking for Aurora DB instances

Today, Turbonomic only support the parking of regular RDS instances. We should cover all Aurora instance as well, since it's heavily used by AWS shops.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

Add Turbo MVS Licenses as an additional line in the Workload Improvements Widget

We've just had a sensitive conversation with the client where we were NOT able to give a clear count of License growth over time because we didn't have the data. Merely point in Time which was recorded by Jim. If we were able to put ACTIVE VM coun...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Planned for future release

Discover Spot Rates

As a Turbonomic User and Data Engineer I want to see the billing rate for Spot instances, and pull that data via the Turbo API for custom reports. Currently, if the billing type = bidding, the billing rate is not discovered and exposed anywhere in...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Parking support for serverless service, like fargate

Currently, AWS serverless service, Fargate cannot be optimized. However, customer think it's useful just to be able to control that suspend for fargate service. *Currently, it is troublesome to control with scripts. Extend Parking functionality to...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Targeting Oracle Connections - since Turbonomics requires Oracle Service Name and could be multiple Service names per VM server

creating 1 group for each Oracle VM and having 1 target connection for each Oracle DB service Name - get very cumbersome and quite manual and hard to maintain
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release