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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Allow staggering of high impact changes

Problem: App teams: "we cannot have these X number of vms down at the same time" Infra engineers: "we cannot support manual policy creation for each execution schedule for each set of X VMs to reboot in the same CHG window" Description: We have ma...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 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...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

Application component actions don't have enough information

If you check the application component pending actions (heap resize) and extract the list to a spreadsheet or print the screen, there's nothing to separate for each area. There's no column for Account or Container cluster as example. In this case,...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Include Resource Group details in Executed Actions widget

Please can I make a product improvement request. In the data export for the executed actions widget please can Cloud Resource Group and Cloud Account be included as fields in the executed actions data extract. These fields are present in pending a...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Group the actions in ServiceNow - and then let the App Owner approve the VM rightsize actions from the one CR.

Group the actions in Snow - and then let the App Owner approve the VM rightsize actions from the one CR. And is able to select some or all of them. Otherwise the app owners will get deluged with multiple individual changes coming in to approve/rej...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Improve SuperCluster Implementation & Configuration

SuperClustering is one of the more unique & useful features that enables a lot of functionality across environments within Turbonomic. Unfortunately, it can be extremely cumbersome to implement SuperClustering due to requiring specific merge p...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Please support more than port 2514 for logging to external logserver, for example 514.

Hello, We would like to connect our Turbonomic instances to our central log server (Greylog). But this is only possible via the following ports: 514, 6514, 601, 6601 However, Turbonomic does not allow any port configuration and always sends syslog...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1

The metrics pods are erroring out because they cannot have a secret defined for them. This causes many errors. Need to turn them off OR add a secret.

The current metrics pods are used to gather data for the last 14 days so that Turbo instances can instantly give recommendations on being connected to a new target without having to wait 14 days. However in this particular client (and I'm sure oth...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Is a defect

Plan improvements: Downloading all plan results

Turbonomic planning allows us to simulate scenarios to migrate workloads to different clusters to simulate how workloads could be supported on different node sizes. This is a workaround to having Turbo recommend what vertical size node would be be...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration