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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add an UNDO button for actions

Many times, users approve rightsizing of application VMs based on Turbo recommendations and realize as soon as it is completed that the change causes problems. The immediately request we "put it back" and we need to research the original configura...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 6 Not under consideration

Allow a method to report on cost savings (lost/hidden) by policy

Allow a way to look at actions that would be generated by policy but that are excluded. Example: If I create a policy to generate no actions on a specific subscription, I would like to be able to see what the "potential" savings are that are hidde...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Add support for IBM PowerVS

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support Power VS now. They hope Turbonomic will support it. The customer is considerin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Azure Savings Plan commitment planning

I would like to have the ability to create plans for Azure Savings Plan commitments based on my current workloads not covered by reserved instances that are running hourly pay go rates.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Not under consideration

Add list of Policies to bottom of Volume details page for consistency

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the details page has a list of policies at the bottom of it, so you can see what's applicable. It would be handy to also see this list on volumes.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Improved Policy Management - Tagging, Folders & Filters

As an administrator, I would like the ability to organize my automation & placement policies as I define them - either by folder or tag. This would allow me to quickly navigate to specific types of policies built for my environment by cluster,...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

RHEL OVA Template Option

With the recent announcement of CentOS going EoL, the Turbonomic OVA Template is being delivered on Rocky Linux beginning with 8.12.02. Unlike CentOS, Rocky is not approved for US Federal and will require extensive testing. RHEL is already adopted...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Combine Azure volume scaling with VM scaling based on VM tags

What is the desired customer use case?: The customer would like from a policy to trigger the actions and execute the n actions at the same time (automatically/programmatically using API calls based on VM tags to select all the action related to o...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Turbonomic Integration with Splunk and Signal FX

Many clients and Accenture Internal Teams are using Splunk for AIOps. Hence there have been multiple requests for Turbonomic SPlunk Integration
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's

Auto-create groups for VM's with and without memory metrics for AWS and GCP VM's as this is currently done for Azure VM's as per attached screen shot. This will make it easier to track and report on what VM's have memory metrics enabled for all cl...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration