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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Documentation on the policies created dynamically

We don't have documentation on policies Turbonomic creates on the fly based on the target environment configuration/setttings e.g. ASG, compliance policies, k8s env policies etc. Can we have this documented to understand whats learnt from each env...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

Add group filter "Cloud Tier" for Database Servers entities

If you want to create a group with all databases with version db.r6g as example, you can't use the cloud tier as a filter. Customers can't limit the resize to his own family, since Turbonomic is not RI RDS aware.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Replication support for External MySQL DB -

Currently External MYSQL DB where the Turbo is installed doesnt support replication. though we are configuring the replication in MysQL , the sync is getting break every day once the file roll over happens.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Support for centralized Azure Hybrid Benefit (centralized AHUB)

Azure came up with Centralized AHUB support for SQL licenses. Similar in concept to CUDs, where the customers can create a pool of licenses and have the SQL instances (SQL databases, managed instances etc ) consume the license from the pool. When ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

ThoughtSpot maintenance should be performed outside of working hours.

On the top page of ThoughtSpot, there is an announcement that "ThoughtSpot service will be unavailable from 10 11 2023 4:00 UTC to 10 11 2023 8:00 UTC due to maintenance".This is from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Japan time, which is during working hours. Ple...
almost 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

AWS EMR Cluster Support and handling

Turbo does not inherently recognize this particular type of device (EMR Cluster) as a “special handling” instance; in effect it sees a list of instances that can be optimized. Without scaling these devices concurrently/consistently, the cluster wi...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

Allow downloadable lists for all entity types from "list of xxx" pages

There are many use cases to be able to download lists of entities. Today, there is only one workaround for one entity type and that's for VMs only. To get a list of all VMs you need to go to "Top Virtual Machines" and then download from there. For...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Planned for future release

Monitoring and Alerting of Turbo-XL instances

Hi Team, We have turbo instances running across both production and non production environments in OpenShift infra, however we do not have a monitoring enabled for them. Considering we need to be alerted incase of any issue we would like to know h...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1

Add support for nested groups when using Active Directory authentication

Turbonomic currently does not support nested AD groups – AD logins must be for users in a top-level group. In complex customer environment netest groups are the standard so that the customer cannot use AD groups. Please add support for nested grou...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Not under consideration

Support for Azure App Service Reserved Instances

Turbonomic doesn't currently discover Azure App Service reserved instances thus may raise actions to scale down for savings due to under utilisation.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration