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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Capability for adding Targets in Google Cloud Platform - CloudSQL/BigTable etc

In the current versions of Turbonomic, there is no capability for finding Google Cloud Platform - Cloud SQL and other databases as targets. Its a high time as many of our customers are adopting to GCP.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 2 Future consideration

Record and preserve all data points in the Actions Executed log

Looking at the Executed Actions - Succeeded widget on the Action Impact & Savings dashboard, download the report. The issue is that in auditing groups of historical actions, it appears some of them are missing the volume and/or target IDs that...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Need a platform health status page so SaaS customers can check to see if there are known issues before logging support requests

Most of the SaaS based products we work with have a Health Status page that lists the product's main features and their current operational status. This helps in the troubleshooting steps to know if we are having an issue or if the platform is hav...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Create a Favorites area on the Main/Left menu (or Favourites for our funny talking friends)

With dozen of different IT teams supporting hundreds of cloud accounts, we are approaching multiple thousands of resource groups in Turbonomic. Most of the DevOps teams are only concerned about a few dozen of those groups that their team specifica...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Enable VMEM and VCPU Minimum Thresholds for Cloud based VMs

When dealing with 3rd party products, support plans, and licensing, there are often constraints placed on systems for preserving a minimum specification. Same would be true for maximums when it comes to things like database licensing that is tied ...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

NFS support

Please extend your code to allow pods to use NFS without creation of PV. support documentation can be found here: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#nfs
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Maintain Identity of Stateful Workloads Running on Spot Instances

As a Turbonomic User, Cloud Engineer and FinOps Practitioner I want to maintain the identity of stateful workloads currently managed by Spot.io so that when a "recycle" occurs in Spot.io and the disk is detached and reattached to a new compute ins...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Discover Spot Rates

As a Turbonomic User and Data Engineer I want to see the billing rate for Spot instances, and pull that data via the Turbo API for custom reports. Currently, if the billing type = bidding, the billing rate is not discovered and exposed anywhere in...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

More robust scheduling options for workflows

Please look into expanding the scheduling options for automation workflows and parking workflows. I think this would be extremely beneficial. Right now, I have a use case where we have certain servers that stay off until they are needed, such as c...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Visualization of the top 5% (the part excluded in the case of 95pt)

I would like you to visualize the parts that are excluded in the case of 95pt (top 5%). This is to see the load conditions that are excluded from the optimization action considerations.I would like to use it as a reference for changes between 95pt...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration