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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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ITSM: Service Now change request integration for databases

Useful for the ability to allow Turbonomic even more automation within a SNOW environment, Furthering the investment in both products for the customer
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 3 Delivered

Allow configuration of Turbonomic to only discover specified license types from Flexera

As a user I would like the ability to only discover specified license types from Flexera, in order to reduce the impact on my Flexera and reduce the scope of licenses managed by Turbonomic.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Delivered

Need support for Azure ebdsv5 and ebsv5 series

Turbonomic currently does not support Azure ebdsv5 and ebsv5 series. Customer is starting to request and use these as well as purchase RI's related to them. Here is Azure link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/ebdsv5-ebsv5-s...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Delivered

Support for Custom VMs

GCP have a great feature that enable customers to change instance size for different types than regular family published size. This is considered as a custom VMs and can be used for IaaS and GKE clusters. Turbonomic still don't support this type, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Delivered

Allow use of VLAN ID for network matching for segmentation

Today, to verify a VM can live on another vCenter, Turbonomic checks the port group name to ensure match and that the same network is available at the destination. This idea is to match on the VLAN ID instead of the port group name string.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Delivered

Hot-Plugging Memory and CPUs on Virtual Machines (AHV)

Currently a reboot is required on virtual machines running on AHV to hot add resources. Nutanix allows hot add capabilities for CPU and Memory without a reboot natively. Turbonomic should be able to leverage the API and do the same without requiri...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Delivered

current documentation implies that VCPU Resize Min threshold works in all cases

this caused consternation at the client - where several hours were wasted because of a lack of clarity about how this policy setting works. Current documentation is here,. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.12.2?topic=infrastructure-virtual-machin...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Delivered

MySQL 8.0.29 version support for Turbonomic

Turbonomic deployment at Infosys is not progressing due to no visibility on support for latest version of MySQL, while the supported MySQL version is having its EOL in 6 months. Customer is very upset with the lack of DB choice beyond MySQL and Ma...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Delivered

Scaling powered off VMs

There are numerous scenarios where a VM is powered off and can/should be scaled. Once a workload is powered off though, the action goes away. I think it's important to allow these resources to be resized before they're powered on and requiring ano...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Delivered

Native ActionScript Container

Having an optional integrated ActionScript container provided in the Turbonomic appliance, akin to the Grafana container, would ease the implementation of ActionScripts if the environment Turbonomic managing is locked down. Additionally, allowing ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 3 Delivered