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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Improved Policy Management - Tagging, Folders & Filters

As an administrator, I would like the ability to organize my automation & placement policies as I define them - either by folder or tag. This would allow me to quickly navigate to specific types of policies built for my environment by cluster,...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

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

Please implement a way to hide production subscriptions for cloud parking

In most situations, we don't want to park production subscriptions, so would like to hide these for the majority of users. For the infrequent times we want to park production, I would want to see this available for elevated-access users only.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 4 Functionality already exists

Combine Azure volume scaling with VM scaling based on VM tags

What is the desired customer use case?: The customer would like from a policy to trigger the actions and execute the n actions at the same time (automatically/programmatically using API calls based on VM tags to select all the action related to o...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Support logical groups of resources to allow actions to be sequenced

Add support for “Logical group names” function that Park My Cloud had. logically group resources together that allow me to then sequence the order that groups of resources are stopped and started.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Add support for GCP SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale a GCP SQL instance.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future 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

While in group edit mode, default search bar to return results within the group

When you navigate to Settings > Groups > searchbar > (search query), you get returned results from the total inventory of that entity type. Often times you need to edit the pre-existing group from a sparse collection of VMs, so it would b...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's as this is currently done for Azure VM's as per attached screen shot. This will make it easier to track and report on what VM's have memory metrics enabled for all cl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration