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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add option to DISABLE irreversible Cloud Volume Actions

We have an Urgent business case for Metlife to lower the Storage tier on VDI VMs that have been IDLE/powered off for 7+ days. When we generate the actions, if the VM was having high iops on SSD, we recommend resizing to HDD but also increase size ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Allow target sorting by configuration status

While on with our customer Humana this week, we were going through one of his instances that has hundreds and hundreds of targets with different degrees of statuses. He asked if we could submit a request to be able to sort by status like we can he...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Allow error logs to be viewed on the Turbonomic SaaS UI

When the probe target connection fails, the SaaS version cannot investigate the cause. For example, if the connection to GCP fails, the response from GCP will show the missing privileges. However it is not possible to check the message in Turbonom...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Not under consideration

No tracking of user who executed a failed action

When someone execute some action on Turbonomic and this action fails (for any reason), the field that shows which user executed are not populated, even if we download the csv files. This lead to a security and behaviour track issues.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Is a defect

Queued planning orchestration tied to automation

Would like to be able to create orchestration plans and priorities that drive automation within superclusters. Example: Create a proactive plan that as new hardware is added to a supercluster that older hardware is drained in the specified order a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

"mediation-vcenter" enables the use of a proxy

Currently, "mediation-vcenter" does not have a feature for connecting to vCenter via a proxy as it is intended for on-premise use. However, as the use of VMC increases, accessing via a proxy will become necessary in environments with strict securi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

Automatic policy creation for instance type scale that take Availability Zones into consideration.

Sometimes, we encounter the error 'The requested configuration is currently not supported.' due to the instance scaling action. Example: t3.micro -> t3a.nano Regions where each instance type is supported: t3.micro: ap-northeast-1d, ap-northeast...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

Allow filtration by entity type in Group Management page

We have tons of groups for all sorts of use cases. Currently there's only exact match search, which is not the best especially when there are so many to filter from and having all engineers keep track of all sorts of naming conventions is not simp...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Functionality already exists

Newly created Instance Types not be added automatically added to the existing policies

We have observed that, the polices are being automatically changed such that the newly created instance types by Azure and Google cloud providers are being selected in all the existing policies. This should not be happening in the policies created...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

Export Group and policy settings inside the UI to make it an easy way for the customer to export either 1or all group and policy settings.

Export Group and policy settings inside the UI Use cases: Customers with single instances but no official backup instance Customers with a single Turbo instance whose recovery method may be to rely on a snapshot or network backups. If those are no...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration