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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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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...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release

Have a simple interface for bulk-adding targets

When adding new features, like initial install of multiple vCenters or adding Databases to an existing installation (pretty much any type target that may have multiple entities), on the "add target" screen have the option to select a CSV file for ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Not under consideration

easier Turbo Instance SSL certificate import - no manual edit of the YAML file

right now customers have to edit the yaml file with VI and a big cert file - loads of mistakes are made - and it's complex. and they need the right number of spaces - like 12 14 16. Vmware Vsphere client has an easy .cer file import process - this...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Support Scaling Actions for GCP Sole Tenancy Workloads

In GCP you can deploy workloads on Sole Tenancy Nodes, typically large projects. We would want to optimize workloads running on sole tenancy nodes to achieve more savings. Currently, Turbo discovers those workloads without actions.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Future consideration

Add a feature that displays the number of days since a proposed action was generated.

From the perspective of deciding which actions to prioritize, it would be helpful to see the history of past proposals—especially if we want to prioritize actions that have been pending for three months or longer. Currently, the customer exports t...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0

URLs for direct access to Action Center & Action Center Details

Desired customer use case: Customer is leveraging webhooks to send pending Turbo actions directly to end-users. They want a way to expose a link that takes the user directly to the Action Center Details view for a given entity/action. Today, we ca...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Not under consideration

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value

For cloud policies, enable filtering of instance types by instance type value. For example, I would like to create a policy that restricts a group of VMs to stay within a certain architecture type such as V5. This is important in some cases based ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Turbonomic Temporary Elevated Access for SSO Users

My engineers that support our Turbonomic SaaS Platform require "Site Administrator" access. Now that we're doing automation in Production, it's increasingly dangerous for "Site Administrator" to be our default level of access in the UI. I would ra...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Not under consideration

Support Azure Databases beyond MS SQL

Today Turbonomic only support DBaaS for Azure, workloads with DB Engine MS SQL Server. Customer have Postgres, MySQL and MariaDB too. My customer for instance has more than 50% of databases Postgres.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Use native AWS memory metrics without renaming so that AWS Users can view Memory Metrics in AWS CloudWatch Resource Health View.

A Business application team requires the use of the AWS CloudWatch Resource Health view. The Resource Health view requires the native AWS metric names which conflicts with the Turbonomic requirement to rename the metrics. Change the way that the T...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration