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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Suspend actions for On-Premisses VMs

After the release version 8.16.6, the new action Suspend is GA (https://ibmdocs-test.dcs.ibm.com/docs/en/SSFV9Z_test?topic=cloud-suspend-actions-vms) but just for Cloud VMs. We should expand to VMware too.

Cloud Repatriation Scenario - Migrating from Public Cloud to On-Prem

Customers are looking for solutions to move away their workloads from Public Cloud to On-Prem due to lock-in and cost related issues. There are no ready to use tools available to do this assessment, hence most of the time it is manual and based on...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2

Workload sets - currently unable to temporarily override an entity in a workload set so that is not included in any scheduled\manual stop\stop workload set activities

sometime an entity may need to be kept online temporarily if it is being worked on. Similarly an entity may have an issue that requires it still be in the set, but kept offline temporarily.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking 0 Under review

DB and K8 Certificate Monitoring for OVA Deployments - on-Premise

Insight into when DB is filling and when K8 Certificates Expire. Today there are no warnings when this happens
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Official support for OCVS(Oracle Cloud VMware Solution)

Now, we are doing PoV for OCVS (Oracle Cloud VMware Solution) in Toyota Systems,The configuration is exactly the same as IBM Cloud Baremetal(VMware), VMware Cloud on AWS, and Turbonomic can visualize supply chain and do resource optimization, incl...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Discover Azure Storage Account Soft Delete Capacities

Discovery Azure Storage accounts and their respective soft delete capacities. Based on the soft deleted capacities calculate size of soft deleted blobs providing the ability to save consumption costs for Azure Storage that is not easily visible to...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Not under 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...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 6 Not under consideration

Automatic Snapshot Removal

Snapshots are often taken and forgotten in the environment. They cause both unwanted storage use and performance issue to VMs if left around too long. Would like to be able to create an automation to remove\consolidate snapshots for groups based o...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Planned for future release

Oracle ExaData Integration

Customer is using Oracle ExaData - x9m-2 & x8m-2 versions and interested to integrate with Turbonomic.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

More Elastic Scaling: Remove hardcoded restrictions on maximum observation period

For those customers that want to unleash Turbonomic to unlock elasticity in the cloud, we use the percentile and observation settings to help influence Turbo's decision making. However, it appears there are hardcoded limits to the minimum/maximum ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration