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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Find a way to store historical vm data after cross-vcenter vmotion

Application and capacity teams would like to have important historical information, which get lost on cross vcenter vmotions. This is a hurdle to really adopting superclustering throughout our environment.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Add Entity Aspects to SaaS Reporting

In recreating some of the Embedded Reporting dashboards used in the field, there are cases where aspect data was used in the reports. It would be great to see many of these aspects added to the SaaS reporting for clients to be able to have access ...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Allow filtration by entity type in Group Management page

We have tons of groups for all sorts of use cases. Currently there's only exact match search, which is not the best especially when there are so many to filter from and having all engineers keep track of all sorts of naming conventions is not simp...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Functionality already exists

Custom time period at top of page to apply to all widgets on page

I’d like the ability to add a custom date range on the top of a page (Dashboards, regular VM/Group pages, etc) so it propagates to all the widgets/graphs – similar to how the limited selections do now. When using Turbo to evaluate utilization or r...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Export Group and policy settings inside the UI to make it an easy way for the customer to export either 1or all group and policy settings.

Export Group and policy settings inside the UI Use cases: Customers with single instances but no official backup instance Customers with a single Turbo instance whose recovery method may be to rely on a snapshot or network backups. If those are no...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Categorization of recommendations based on Cloud Provider

If we look at any recommendations, the categorization based on cloud provider is present only if the recommendations are of more than one cloud provider. From the image uploaded, we have cloud provider categorization for Azure and GCP as we have d...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Provide associated risk for Reconfigure to add licensed host actions

As a user I would like the ability to observe the reason that Turbonomic is recommending to add/reconfigure a new licensed host, so that I can better understand the impact/outcomes of reconfiguring to add a new licensed host.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Implement capacity adjustability for active-active consistent resize groups

If we have a group of 2 active-active vms that are running at 80% capacity and one fails over all traffic to the other, we would exceed utilization capacity. We need to be able to configure this capacity limit for scaling purposes in these scenari...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0

Have Turbonomic ignore DRS constraints if DRS is turned off on the cluster

I have some move policies that are failing to produce actions due to a restriction on "Segmentation Commodity" type constraint, built off of DRS rules imported from vCenter. However, even after I turned DRS off, it is still restricting the VMs eve...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Is a defect