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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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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 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Planned for future release

We want to restrict volume changes to ONLY performance and not efficiency.

The customer has a DR environment with lots of volumes. Turbo is recommending downsizes that the customer doesn't want. Right now Turbo policy has an option Prefer Savings Over Reversibility. But unlike VM policy we can't restrict changes to just ...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Azure offer reservations for Azure CosmosDB. Can we see and recommend CosmosDB reservations please?

Azure offers 65% discounts on COSMOS - this can save the customer a lot of money if properly managed. Turbo could help the client make the right decisions. Rightsize FIRST - then Recommend COSMOS RI SECOND
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Function to notify maintenance downtime in advance (SaaS Turbonomic)

As you can see in SaaS services such as Salesforce, if downtime occurs due to maintenance, it would be good to have a function that notifies us in advance. (For example, from about a week before maintenance, a notification screen will be displayed...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

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
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 6 Not under consideration

Confusing risk description in Actions

The column Risk description when a file of actions over container specs is exported, shows a mixture of different actions. It's a sum of potential actions but there is no direct correlation between an action and the description that appears in the...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

Actions excel downloaded is missing the word "limit" on the Impacted commodity column

List of exported actions for workload controller entities lists 'Limit' resize commodities as only VCPU and VMEM. It is expected VMEM Limit /VCPU Limit instead of just VMEM/VCPU. Related to the case TS019321209.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

When working with Custom group, add a button to create a policy from that Custom group

When we are working to optimize AKS clusters, we are unable to specify the volume tier policy to exclude recommendations for Standard HDD disks We want to be able to just apply a policy to a subset of volumes, just the ones in the group and cannot...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Functionality already exists

Enterprise level support for target management. More information and downloads.

This was a request from a large customer with hundreds of targets. Some of which are labeled critical - even though they might still be working - and might just be delayed - can the reason for the CRTICAL be more easily found. ideally we can downl...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration