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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Provide basic entity information in tabular format for VM group scope

As a large enterprise with almost 800 active-active groups consisting of over 6000 VMs, we frequently find ourselves in need of a flat-view pane of basic VM information for all members of any one group. At the least, for example, we'd like to see ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

VM Family upgrade to newer version even in case of no underutilization

We were looking if Turbo can provide any recommendation of VM Family upgrade even if there was no underutilization. For e.g when we compared the F series VM family, we could see the V2 version providing faster and cheaper VM of the same core. Whil...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Functionality already exists

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...
almost 3 years 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Add ability to pause target reporting

We have a password that changes and it takes a number of days to reset. In the time it takes update the password the targets try too many times and locks the new password. If we can pause the discovery of the target with a pause button this would ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Future consideration

Support CISCO Intersight as Target

CISCO is moving customer away from the legacy UCS Manager solution to their InterSight solution. We no longer have access to UCS Manager in our new UCS environment. So, we will need Turbonomic to start supporting CISCO InterSight as a target in or...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

Support in-place resource resize without restart

Kubernetes at version 1.27 released a feature to change cpu and memory from containers without trigger a restart. Use this mechanism will boost Turbonomic usage on cloud native targets and minimize the requests for GitOps integrations.Source: http...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Add the Hours Idle field to VMs

The customer, HCSC, desires to create policies on cloud VMs based on how many hours they have been idle. Currently, IBM Turbonomic only supports the Hours Idle parameter for PaaS Synapse databases.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration

Leverage AWS IAM Roles Anywhere to connect to AWS from Turbonomic

Need to leverage AWS IAM Roles Anywhere to connect to AWS. This is important as several organizations using AWS are moving towards IAM roles Anywhere. IAM Roles Anywhere extends the functionality of standard IAM roles, enabling workloads outside o...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Future consideration

SCVMM Multiple Domains and Users

We need to opportunity to connect to one SCVMM with different users of different domains. That is because we are running different domains in a single scvmm with no trust between these Domains. The problem now is that we only can use one User for ...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration