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Commitment Support for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Only the compute costs are included with a reservation. A reservation doesn't cover software, networking, or storage charges associated with the PostgreSQL Database servers. Azure offer 30 different RI types across services, many of our customers ...
12 months ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization (Commitments) 0 Delivered

Alert on New CSP Instance Creation for Early Cost Risk Detection

The customer has requested to be able to setup anomaly alerts that trigger when a new instance is created within a CSP. Since new instances lack historical cost data to detect deviations from the mean they would not alert by default, but they coul...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Delivered

Displaying Discounted Rates in Turbonomic Dashboard

From customer perspective, the savings that are presented in Turbonomic Dashboard do not reflect the actual savings as these savings are compared against the advertised rates. However, typically, customer has savings plans and discounted rates and...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Delivered

Views - Can't see who is using

CLOUDY-I-156 was closed as delivered, but only part of request was delivered, the who created part. I had also requested insight into who is using View. As an Admin, if I want to delete a View, I need to understand who is using it as a default Vie...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Views 2 Delivered

Allow for managing VM-to-VM anti/affinity rules directly in Turbonomic

As a user I would like the ability to create/modify/delete VM-to-VM affinity/anti-affinity placement policies, so that I do not have to create/modify/delete these rules in vCenter.

Make regionMap available through target addition page

Today when adding an AWS target, is the customer's SCP policies do not allow access to all regions (which is the case for 75%+ customers), they need to edit the regionMap to specify which regions they support. This has to be done through swagger a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Delivered

Finalized Data or N-1 Filter for Report Components

Most reporting elements in Cloudability by default include the current day which under most circumstances is not representative of a full day of data. As a result, with graphs you typically see a decreased costs on the current day or current week ...
5 months ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 2 Delivered

Azure Savings Plans for compute (VMs)

Earlier this year Azure came up with Savings plans support for compute. Similar in concept to AWS Savings plans. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/offers/savings-plan-compute/#benefits-and-features Product does not currently support this. ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Delivered

Disable All Actions Switch under Global Default Policies must include Parking Actions. Currently does not.

People might assume that the Global Defaults Disable All Actions switch might work on Parking actions. And then during a cutover, machines would be turned off by accident causing massive disruption. EITHER this switch should INCLUDE parking action...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Delivered

Allow resizing of a VM when the VM is not running

Scale actions to resize or change the instance type of a VM in Azure do not function on a VM that is stopped/deallocated. Many of our VMs are scheduled to be stopped outside of normal business hours. We also have a schedule policy to have "execute...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Delivered