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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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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

if a client has a special RI Discount % with Microsoft on top of the regular RI savings - that discount should be included under the effective cost column in the Discount Inventory Widget

If Turbo can't see this special RI Discount % , then the cost of the RIs are wrong. This causes issues in reporting and also affects the decision of whether the RI should be purchased or not. If this special RI Discount is NOT visible through any ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

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

regular expression filter on different attributes in group creation

Currently we have regular expression filter for the VM name while creating a group for VMs which makes job easy for bulk selection at a time. It would also be good to have similar regular expression filter for creating group of VMs based on accoun...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Planned for future release

If I have subscriptions with the same name in different Azure Service Principles, I would like a way to add each subscription separately to the Target Configuration.

When configuring multiple Azure Service Principals as Targets, if the Subscriptions they have have the same name, the configuration will be overwritten by a subsequent win. [1] Azure Service Principals "A" has "Subscription 1", and Azure Service P...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

It will be good to know the licence consumption in Turbonomic ie windows, linux, dbs etc

It will be good to know the licence consumption in Turbonomic ie windows, linux, dbs etc for better analysis
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 3 Not under consideration

To be able to change Scaling Target VMEM Utilization for On-Premises

Currently, almost all of my SQL Servers are considered to not have enough memory according to Turbonomic as it appears to want 70% free memory. This was told to me by support. This threshold is way above what VMware and Microsoft consider to be be...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

getting gcp tags information into turbonomic

This is because everyone uses labels and tags differently in google.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

Customer wants to be informed which Azure Reserved Instances are not visible to the Turbo Azure Service Principal. This leads to improved cost information on savings.

See IBM Case TS011934194. In the discount inventory report available under Cloud, the column cost savings is wrongly indicated. Instead of calculating the savings by subtracting the PAYGO rate minus the 3 year RI reserved rate, the report is showi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2 Functionality already exists

Turbonomic - Add support for Postgres databases (via APM targets, maybe as direct target)

Postgres is the no. 4 in the database market following Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL and one of the fasted growing db engines Turbonomic currently does not support Postgres yet neither as target nor via APM tools. Please add support for Postgres databas...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 1 Future consideration