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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Import AD and UI cert through UI

Today the customer's need to go through editing yaml files on the backend to be able to use secure ldap or importing a cert to to secure the Turbonomic UI or when using secure proxy when targeting cloud targets. All these scenarios need the custom...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Parking runs into problems when VMs are too close to the Quota Limit

Business Case: Customer shut down 5 Azure VMs - and tried to turn them on in the morning - only 4 did- because the quota for that VM was exhausted. The Customer had to half the size of the machine - then it could start up. What would be REALLY goo...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Parking should have better notification. More than just an error message in the Executed actions widget

The customer is using Parking to suspend and bring up scores of machines. They need to know quickly and easily if machines are NOT suspending and/or starting up. Can we get notifications displayed in the Parking Modules. This will make it easier f...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Support for IBM FlashSystem devices under IBM SVC management

Currently, Turbonomic doesn't support FlashSystem under SVC as its considerations. One of my potential Turbo customer has FlashSystem with SVC.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Size work loads for performance test only

Provide recommendations on cpu request and memory request based on performance test schedule . Scenarios : 1. Spikey type of transactions like sending event notifications via email to other apps/customers. This demands for higher cpu/mem resources...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Support for Azure SQL reserved capacity

Product doesn't currently support Azure SQL (PaaS) reserved capacity. This functionality is similar conceptually to Reserved Instances for VMs; however, it applies to SQL. Impact: Turbonomic will potentially create pending actions to scale a SQL d...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Import DRS Virtual Machine Options settings

Today, Turbo imports DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules. These rules help customers keep VMs together, apart, or only on certain hosts. Some customers (Facebook, NBC) use DRS's Virtual Machine Options to override DRS automation. This settings ar...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release

What-if planing option to evaluate impact if a percentage of VMs upsize

Would like to be able to run a plan that evaluates cluster capacity if VMs in an automation hotadd policy were to upsize. Within the plan be able to on a slide basis evalutate if 10,20 etc. % were to consume the limit of the hot add policy. This w...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Have a simple interface for bulk-adding targets

When adding new features, like initial install of multiple vCenters or adding Databases to an existing installation (pretty much any type target that may have multiple entities), on the "add target" screen have the option to select a CSV file for ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Not under consideration

Enable probe and other properties via UI

There are several instances today where the customer needs to change a property via swagger or going into the yaml file and adding probe or other component/global properties. This is not a great user experience and it would be ideal if user has th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration