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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Allowing Scheduling of a Parking Schedule Pause

We have a need to plan/schedule Parking Schedule Pauses to allow developers/engineers to plan maintain windows into existing Parking Schedules. So currently we have parking schedules in place and our sysadmins can pause a parking schedule for a pe...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

If license usage is about to exceed the limit, for example, over 80%. it should trigger an alert.

With the current licensing system, users won’t notice if the license limit has been exceeded until they try to register a new target. It would be helpful to have a feature that automatically sends a notification—via email, Slack, etc.—when license...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Under review

Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...

Retain the ResourceName/ID for entities deleted/no longer in Turbo so they are available when looking at Executed Actions/Realized Savings

There is a need to correlate the specific action(s) taken on a resource to the savings/investments resulting from said action. This is done by downloading info from the Savings widget to get the resource name, then searching for same resource name...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

SecureClient available for Self-managed Turbonomic.

The customer would like to set up a Self-managed Turbonomic instance in thier own data center, and they want it to manage vCenters located in other remote data centers as well. However, switching between multiple Turbonomic instances would be inco...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Under review

Import Latency Sensitivity VM setting for vmotion cost calculation

We have some workloads that are latency sensitive and suffer when vMotioned in short sequence. vCenter has VM settings called "latency sensitivity" and "vMotion stun time limit" that would be incredibly beneficial for these types of workloads for ...

Provide a means for high availability of the Turbonomic platform

As a user I would like the ability to run Turbonomic in an active/active or active/passive model, so if my primary (or any) Turbonomic instance in my environment fails, I can continue operations without putting my infrastructure and business appli...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

vm automation policies when vm state is idle - include actions also against any attached volumes

All public cloud scale events require downtime. Downtime involves stopping any services running on these IaaS instances during an action execution activity. If a vm has a park schedule or maintenance window, then this is the ideal time to resize (...
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

enable 'resize when powered off' to work with public cloud vm's

Anyone with public cloud vm's where they want to create an automation policy that executes only when a said vm is idle
15 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Allow execute actions on the disk attached to an instance that is in an unmanaged instance group

There are large potential savings to update the disk type per the Turbonomic suggestions. However, turbonomic UI states "the volume is attached to an instance in an instance group. Scale actions for this volume can only be executed in Google Cloud...
29 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 3 Under review