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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Change the information displayed on the Target configuration screen to something more useful.

On there target configuration screen it displays the "Last modified" date, while useful, last successful connection date would be much more useful. Display "Last modified" in the edit or view. In the attached screenshot it shows two connections do...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Add support to simulate effect of changes in the commitment portfolio an Turbonomic actions for workload optimization

The current plan feature supports to select the existing RIs that shall be considered when running the plan. Please add the capability to also be able to simulate the effect on Turbonomic actions for workload optimization for the following scenari...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Keep billing data statistics based on the Data Retention policy (currently, it can only display up to 30 days at maximum)

Currently, Cost Breakdown Charts can display data from the last 7 or 30 dayshttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.11.0?topic=types-cost-breakdown-charts On the other hand, according to the Data Retention Policy as whole turbonomic, it is possible to ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

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 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

SaaS Reporting - ability to chart peaks and average samples at detailed time bucket

As a user of Turbonomic SaaS Reporting I would like the ability to chart over time the peak consumed and avg consumed samples at the detailed time bucket (individual samples/every 10 minute granularity) so that I can measure historical utilization...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Add functionality to log hot-to-warm failover and/or make more visible when actions were disabled

Failing over is a manual process, and changes to what instance is running "hot" and what instance is running "warm" are not clearly evident from the charts. It would be very beneficial to not only be able to see, transposed onto all historical gra...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

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 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Allow resizing action of namespace quota

We, IBM CIO, set default namespace quotas in OpenShift clusters. However, some applications need to use more resources than the default resource quotas set. Either due to a technical reason or business criticality. Today, we need to contact SRE te...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Future consideration

Allow or block access to subscriptions/projects in turbonomic

Turbonomic should have capability to block/allow access to subscriptions or projects even though the owner of the subscription provides access to the service principal. As the target is set to Azure/GCP, we should have some granularity to allow/bl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 3

increase scope and usage visibility of Azure VM Reserved Instances

Currently Turbo recommends VI purchases at an Account/Subscription level. (it can also narrow in on Billing Families and Regions). Azure permits RIs to be limited to Enterprise, Management Group (that’s a collection of Subscriptions), Subscription...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration