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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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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...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Planned for future release

Provide a warning when internal certificates are about to expire

Rather than being surprised when internal certificates have expired when on the CLI (which is rare and usually only when doing upgrades), gives us a heads up in the UI.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Planned for future release

expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Regarding the price display for "Aurora Standard" and "Aurora I/O-Optimized"

Aurora has multiple prices even for the same instance type. However, in the current Turbonomic UI, it's unclear which price is being displayed. Is it possible to make this clear? ------------------------------------------------------------ https:/...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Multiple Resource Graph should have 3 day drop down range - in between Last 24 Hours and Last 7 Days

So Turbo keeps data per hour for the last 72 hours - then rolls it up. So it's a VERY USEFUL graph to look back at the last 3 days because it's the maximum duration to see data by the hour. The customer is looking at graphs for hours a day - and u...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 4 Planned for future release

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 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 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.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

KubeTurbo helm chart - enable a toleration

Hello, I have an enhancement request for the KubeTurbo helm chart, which is here: https://github.com/turbonomic/kubeturbo/tree/master/deploy/kubeturbo-operator/helm-charts/kubeturbo The ask is to please add the ability to include a toleration in t...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Planned for future release