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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add an UNDO button for actions

Many times, users approve rightsizing of application VMs based on Turbo recommendations and realize as soon as it is completed that the change causes problems. The immediately request we "put it back" and we need to research the original configura...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 6 Not under consideration

Postgress database Support for Turbonomic

Postgress database Support for Turbonomic
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Add ability to pause target reporting

We have a password that changes and it takes a number of days to reset. In the time it takes update the password the targets try too many times and locks the new password. If we can pause the discovery of the target with a pause button this would ...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

Allow insert limit in Park override

Today if a user override a parket VM, they can choose between a end date or a number of hours. But someone with bad intentions can override for 1 year or 999 hours for instance. The admin should have a way to put limit on each override, like 2 hou...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Parking runs into problems when VMs are too close to the Quota Limit

Business Case: Customer shut down 5 Azure VMs - and tried to turn them on in the morning - only 4 did- because the quota for that VM was exhausted. The Customer had to half the size of the machine - then it could start up. What would be REALLY goo...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Add support for IBM PowerVS

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support Power VS now. They hope Turbonomic will support it. The customer is considerin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Allow a method to report on cost savings (lost/hidden) by policy

Allow a way to look at actions that would be generated by policy but that are excluded. Example: If I create a policy to generate no actions on a specific subscription, I would like to be able to see what the "potential" savings are that are hidde...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration