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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Reduce the size of the OVA required for offline upgrade

The current size of the OVA is insanely large. If we were pushed to require an offline upgrade, the initial download itself takes about 9 hours. Please find a way to reduce the size of the OVA to minimize the pain for those who require offline upg...

User Import/Export Functionality in Turbonomic (Parity with Legacy ParkMyCloud)

In Legacy ParkMyCloud, administrators can import and export users directly from the UI in Excel format. This capability is very useful for bulk user management, audits, and migrations. Request: Please add equivalent user import/export functionalit...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Kerberos Auth for vcenter targets

Need to use higher level of security for authenticating to esxi/vcenter using Kerberos, for security project that is currently underway.
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Under review

Turbonomic's parking functionality issue for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot)

We are working with the ITAU customer who is experiencing performance issues with the parking functionality in Turbonomic for Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) running Windows instances (non-Spot).The issue is that Turbonomic's current parking behavior t...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0

Helm Chart for Turbonomic depolyment

Current IBM supported deployment option for Turbonomic components is via manifest yaml. For platform teams that has an automated process (like Argo CD) in place for maintaining the softwares installed in a fleet of kubernetes clusters , current op...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Azure DB Non-Disruptive notice

Azure DBs scale actions states that the change is "Non-Disruptive", technically there is no downtime in that the database doesn't go down during the change, though there could be a connection drop and re-connect during the change. Following the Az...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Provide optimization for RDS Aurora Serverless type

Now, Turbonomic support for Aurora, Only Standard type. Customer needs Aurora, Serverless type, AWS say Aurora, Serverless provide resource oprtimization automatically. But, this algorithm is not clear, performance analysis is black box, and cost ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Future consideration

Expend role based control as an example for Parking Automator in Turbonomic

The PARKER_AUTOMATOR role lets users park workloads manually or automatically and view all Turbonomic charts and data. However, they cannot manage parking schedules, create policies or templates, place workloads, run plans, or execute other action...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking 0 Submitted

If the license is exceeded, please do not automatically add new managed entities.

Even if a user adds a virtual machine and that causes the number of licenses to be exceeded, there is currently no way to restrict this on the Turbonomic product side. (As an admin, this can lead to unintended overage.) To prevent this, we would l...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Optimize Target configuration

In Settings Target configuration it has become very difficult to filter fast for categories. In the new bad UI I have to click 7 times to filter for Hypervisor. In the great old UI I had to click once. Please bring back the great functionalities o...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration