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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Support new families at GCP target - C4 and N4

Customers and Magazine Luiza started to question when we are supporting actions considering the new GCP families: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/compute-and-infrastructure-enhancements-at-next24 N4 and C4, also AMD VMs.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

Option to export audit logs using mTLS

To integrate Turbonomic audit logs to customer telemetry logging system, we need audit log export using mTLS. Even all the Turbo audit logs are syslog formatted, without mTLS log export, it would be very difficult to integrate with inhouse managed...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Not under consideration

Azure Savings Plans Utilization Tracking

I want to be able to 1) list Azure Savings Plan commitments, followed by 2) tracking the utilization of the specific Azure Savings Plan such as 100%, 95%, etc. and 3) display the workloads that are consuming from the savings plan.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Expand Azure reservation planning to additional Azure resource types supporting Azure reserved instances

Currently Turbonomic only supports planning reservation instances for VMs in Azure. Microsoft provides numerous resource types to purchase reserved instances. I want to make purchases driven on analytics provided by Turbonomic to drive ROI, howeve...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

Capture Restarts for PODs across time

To give a customer a visibility over how their PODs are performing, if there was any restart happening due to lack of Memory which could help the customer how application pods are performing and also can be used in the POV as how we are helping th...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Turbo should not recommend Disk Size changes for Azure HyperScale DBs - they autoscale.

bad actions reduce faith in the product and waste time. This is distracting the customer for really good actions - like HyperScale scaling.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

Please add support for Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage

Using Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/disks-enable-performance?tabs=azure-cli ) an Azure customer can opt-in for this IOPS and thoughput for Azure disks. Please add support for ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Horizontal scaling for CPU

As a user, I’d like to use resource metrics such as CPU and Memory that is captured from Kubeturbo to leverage for a Horizontal Scaling policy on a horizontally scalable k8s service. Note today, the user does have a workaround for CPU. Use Prometu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Planned for future release

CPU pinning workloads

As a user, I’d like to express a tolerance for CPU and memory for whole-core increments, like what we did for throttling. I'd like to set equal CPU request and limit (for OCR). PM update to requirement: We will implement support for rightsizing CP...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Planned for future release

Option to apply resize policies on groups of namespaces

When trying to "cleanup" the whole cluster it is pretty tedious to keep filtering by namespaces. So my workflow using Turbonomic is usually that I check the recommendations on the Turbo homepage to see where the needs for resizing are. I then crea...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 5 Future consideration