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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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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

API Guide Enhancement

In meeting with a customer recently to help them troubleshoot API issues that they were telling us about, we asked if they had our API guide and they said that yes they had it, but it offered very little assistance and us introducing them to Swagg...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration

API request url needs updating

In meeting with a customer recently to troubleshoot API issues he said he was having, we noticed something in Swagger that was failing. We realized that in the request URL, it had an old url string that needs to be updated. It lists /vmturbo/ wher...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Not under consideration

No tracking of user who executed a failed action

When someone execute some action on Turbonomic and this action fails (for any reason), the field that shows which user executed are not populated, even if we download the csv files. This lead to a security and behaviour track issues.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Is a defect

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Functionality already exists

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...
over 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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Is a defect

For HA workloads (consistent resize), allow Match Cores

Today Turbonomic matches utilization based on MHz. There are use cases for when teams would want to have all their vms have matching core counts. Please add functionality to match by core count for Consistent Resize capability.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

allow using groups based on virtual machines as a scope for volume policies

at the moment, volume policies are only configurable by resource group. we want machines that in lots of different resource groups to be in scope for a policy
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration