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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Plan Migration to show a cost comparison between migrating to the different cloud providers

Instead of a user creating 3 plans (one for each provider) and moving between dashboards to compare. A customer wanted to see a single dashboard comparing the possible migrations to all clouds to decide on the best one.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

Add the Hours Idle field to VMs

The customer, HCSC, desires to create policies on cloud VMs based on how many hours they have been idle. Currently, IBM Turbonomic only supports the Hours Idle parameter for PaaS Synapse databases.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Provide a means of formatting time properties in Webhook workflows

As a user I would like the ability to format time properties for webhooks as Unix epoch milliseconds rather than iso8601, so I can store the action times in an external systems and plot them on a timeline, allowing me to correlate when the Turbono...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Turbo should not recommend Disk Size changes for Azure HyperScale DBs - they autoscale.

bad actions reduce faith in the product and waste time. This is distracting the customer for really good actions - like HyperScale scaling.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

Include VIO Servers in the PowerVM support

I think it is important to support VIO Servers in the PowerVM support. At least add an option to allow the user to include VIO Servers. We used to have data/recommendations for VIOS when we were using Densify, so we knew we need to right-sized the...

Follow VM start & stop order on vSphere policy

After vSphere v6.7,  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-7A132146-2779-4F4B-B39D-EE4F129DB79C.html There is a feature that allows administrators to control the order in which VMs are started and stopp...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Have a way to duplicate a Group (from the GUI) into a new Group with a different name

We would like a way to copy/duplicate individual Group. This will be very useful especially for Groups that has complex filtering or has lots of static members. This will not only make group creation much faster in certain cases. (e.g. if the new ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Improve stitching where multiple services are backed by the same workload

Turbo should be able to handle multiple services that are front-ending the same workload PM update: Will convert this to an improvement on how Turbonomic stitches Services to Containerized Workload to be handled under 2 master epics: Multiple Serv...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Getting container IP from extractor

Netskope would like the ability to get container IP from the extractor. PM comment: this is not functionality related to Turbonomic, rather an issue related to choice of or configuration of the Prometheus exporter used.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Working with Prometheus in container environment

Today we don’t manage exporter, and metric has to be in Turbo namespace, but Netskope would like it to be available in all namespaces.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Not under consideration