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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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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...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Future consideration

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

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Not under consideration

Identify when OpenShift is running on baremetal correctly

Redhat OpenShift can be deployed on virtual machines or on baremetal, however all the screens in Turbo are assuming virtual machines are being used and displays all CPU memory value prefixed with "Virtual", so when you deploy on baremetal the labe...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 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 membership should be easily visible for each VM

When I look at a VM I can see an overview, details, policies, actions. I would like to be able to see what groups the VM is part of in this same view. Having to go into reports to find the groups for a VM is not a good user experience. Thank you.
over 1 year 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

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