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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Enterprise level support for target management. More information and downloads.

This was a request from a large customer with hundreds of targets. Some of which are labeled critical - even though they might still be working - and might just be delayed - can the reason for the CRTICAL be more easily found. ideally we can downl...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Change vm uptime over more than a week

When someone is working with Turbonomic, inside action > Buy > Reserved instance we are only able to see the widget "VM UPTIME OVER A TYPICAL WEEK". That seems like all the buy reservations actions were based on a week study. We would like t...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Policies when doing Initial Placement should include VM Dynamic Filter Logic

When using the Place/Initial Placement functionality, part of the process is selecting Placement or Do Not Place Policies in addition to the Scope. When selecting a VM template and selecting a Place Policy that has Dynamic criteria (e.g. if a VM h...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time.

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time. If showing for all VM is too hard due to resource perspective, it is ok to run as "Plan" basis and show the result in a screen.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Future consideration

Include a simple method to import AD/LDAP certificates for external authentication

The current method to import the LDAP certificate to allow for external AD authentication is extremely complex, cumbersome, time consuming, and error prone. Multiple troubleshooting sessions are needed at times to figure out how to get the certifi...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Future consideration

It would be desirable if multiple currencies could be handled by one Turbonomic

Currently, only one currency symbol can be set, so if AWS (USD) and Azure (Yen) are mixed, it will be confusing. Each time, we create a group just for AWS and refer to that dashboard, which is cumbersome.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Executed Actions - Succeeded and Failed Dashboard enhancement

Executed Actions on the Cloud Executive Dashboard - Succeeded and Failed Dashboard shows all actions that have been actioned within Turbonomic and Externally. It would be good if the associated financials could be seen next to each action ie what ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Needs more information

update the Workload Improvements Charts to include what a workload is.

Customers want to track licenses - and often think they can use the workload chart to do so - but they cannot. A separate Idea for Enhancement will be added today. If the documentation was updated to include the following - it would add clarity. A...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 1 Needs more information

Bulk Create IAM Roles and add as Targets when adding a Master Billing account

Turbonomic supports ingesting AWS data from already created IAM Role/Users for specific AWS Accounts. This is great for 1 or 2 AWS accounts, but for customers who have 100s of AWS accounts, this can be very tedious. I am aware AWS allows their use...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

Park ASG's or VMSS from EKS/AKS clusters

As now, it's only supported park ASG's and VMSS's that is not related to k8s clusters. The demand is to shutdown and turn on an entire k8s clusters for cost savings. They are doing today using scripts and it's welcome bring this feature inside Tur...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration