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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Policy Toggles to enable/disable a specific policy

Use case 1: Auto imported policies are not needed and are interfering with user defined policies. Enable a policy toggle to disable it at the policy level in Turbonomic so that no resources are affected by it. A bulk selection and disable menu ava...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Create an option for latest gen storage or instance types

Turbonomic could be able to help assist in lifecycle management activities by suggesting only newer (assuming less expensive) hardware types. This avoids having to update hundreds of policies where explicit selections were previously made. Example...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Add "Back" navigation to primary areas

When starting from the home screen it defaults to the Application tab. You then have to click Cloud tab and then Show All on the accounts widget, then scroll all the way down to find the one you're looking for. If you need to back out a level to l...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Rate of Resize without Limitation

Hello, we faced a strange problem where a VM with 5% utilization in the 95th percentile had no action. After investigation with the Support we came to the conclusion that it is like this because Turbonomic would scale down the VM below the Applica...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration

Action Script Server integration to capture details such as git repo etc in the UI

Action Script specific to each target account enables variables to be defined when setting up the target. The variables are passed to action script server and include details such as vault credentials, repo containing the code etc. Additional deta...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Planned for future release

support on-prem SQL Server

currently on-prem SQL are not supported, but some of our customer still have on-prem SQL server
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Functionality already exists

kubeturbo CLI support

To make Turbonomic utilization in a high rates, specially by developers and operators, we should have a kubeturbo CLI, so at the k8s terminal we can get pending actions that affect performance or indicate savings, like: kubeturbo get action -perfo...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Within Turbo I should be able to select a group of items based on a larger group.

In my example I have created a group of accounts within our cloud environment, i should then be able to either apply a policy to the VM's that are in that group, or created a group of VM's that are in those accounts rather than having to duplicate...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Azure savings plans leverage on top of RIs during scaling actions recommendations

challenges leveraging and imposing Savings plans and RIs within the platform. Recommendations on RI skus are great but we would like to enhance the savings plans features use case to our advantage.] Essentially, the ask is to account and compute t...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Planned for future release

Prevent action failures when executing RDS scaling actions for instances running deprecated versions

This prevents Turbo from making recommendations that cannot be executed and makes automating such actions easier. My idea is to discover the DB version (This is already done today) and generate the current scaling recommendations with a pre-requis...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration