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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Request to Include Cisco ACI in Turbonomic Integration Support

Dear Turbonomic Product Team, We have received strong interest from one of our enterprise customers in expanding their adoption of IBM Turbonomic across their hybrid infrastructure. However, a key blocker they are facing is the lack of native inte...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Business Mapping in IBM Turbonomic – Current Limitation and Needed Enhancement

Currently, in IBM Turbonomics, we can automatically create business mappings based on tag values only for Virtual Machines. I need this feature to also support and group other services such as storage, databases, and containers.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Needs more information

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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 2 Not under consideration

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....
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Switching Monthly Conversion From 30-Day to Calendar Month

Turbonomic calculates monthly conversion using a 30-day period, but I want to check the conversion using calendar months like January, February, March, instead of the past 30 days. It would be helpful if, for example, the CostBreakdown could allow...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Not under consideration

Add "Cluster Tags" to VM group creation

Currently there is not a way to create VM groups based on its cluster tag. This feature would provide a great way to create dynamic groups based on something we can extract from vCenter from other use cases. For example, say I have a supercluster ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future 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.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Adding Azure SQL Elastic Pools data to Turbonomic

this will help us with the monitoring of our elastic pool database we have in Azure & plan any costing improvements that are needed
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Ideas for more consumable actions

After initial deployment, it may take many Turbonomic actions to bring the existing environment to a more desired state. As a new user to Turbonomic it can be hard to digest and consume those actions and understand where to start. Some ideas to he...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Rename "Rate of Resize" options

At the policies, we have in some of them the option of "Rate of Resize" with three options: 1, 2 and 3. The problem is the customer is looking at these numbers as the multiplier to the increments and not the level itself. We should rename to a bet...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Not under consideration