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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add costs estimation by Container Pod

Hi, I'm working with a customer with more than 1500 workloads and base on kubernetes. It would be nice to have the estimated cost by each pod inside a cluster, so they can track and sort by most expensive cluster or pod and execute actions based o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Functionality already exists

Allow Turbonomic be aware of edge cases and scale virtual machines to instance types that are available in the AZ

Generally, all the instance types are available within the entire region which we take into consideration but in some edge cases AWS does not make them available in a particular AZ within that region. We do not track availability within a particul...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic to give recommendations for Azure VM Scale Sets.

A lot of corporations have Azure VM Scale Sets which are improperly configured. They are set to scale OUT but not IN. And there is a lot of waste. Would love it if VM Scale Sets are treated differently and recommendations given - e..g SCALE IN for...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Add support for vSAN Witness host

Implementing vSAN Stretched Clusters in a VMware vSphere environment requires setting up a witness host storing all meta data but hosting no VMs and acting as a quorum in a split brain situation (see https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-stretched...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Add support for MSSQL instances

Currently, any multi-tenant setup on SQL (aka SQL Instances) is not supported. The request is to add support - and the ideal solution would be to allow Turbo to enumerate all SQL instances via the SQL Server Browsing service.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Functionality already exists

Plan Migration to show a cost comparison between migrating to the different cloud providers

Instead of a user creating 3 plans (one for each provider) and moving between dashboards to compare. A customer wanted to see a single dashboard comparing the possible migrations to all clouds to decide on the best one.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

business benefit should appear in ServiceNow Change

The biggest challenge with VM Sizing is getting App Team buy-in. With ServiceNow Orchestration - the app team will receive an approval for a CR in ServiceNow. Right now there is NO BUSINESS BENEFIT listed in this change. Why would they approve? In...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Choosing what notification to show to users

We have a request from our Business Partner(s) in Taiwan. They are also Public Cloud's partner and would like to promote Turbonomic to their AWS clients. Their client's AWS account is a linked account under BP's AWS org account with Block Billing,...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Include VIO Servers in the PowerVM support

I think it is important to support VIO Servers in the PowerVM support. At least add an option to allow the user to include VIO Servers. We used to have data/recommendations for VIOS when we were using Densify, so we knew we need to right-sized the...

Have a way to duplicate a Group (from the GUI) into a new Group with a different name

We would like a way to copy/duplicate individual Group. This will be very useful especially for Groups that has complex filtering or has lots of static members. This will not only make group creation much faster in certain cases. (e.g. if the new ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release