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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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allow using groups based on virtual machines as a scope for volume policies

at the moment, volume policies are only configurable by resource group. we want machines that in lots of different resource groups to be in scope for a policy
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

If I have subscriptions with the same name in different Azure Service Principles, I would like a way to add each subscription separately to the Target Configuration.

When configuring multiple Azure Service Principals as Targets, if the Subscriptions they have have the same name, the configuration will be overwritten by a subsequent win. [1] Azure Service Principals "A" has "Subscription 1", and Azure Service P...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

getting gcp tags information into turbonomic

This is because everyone uses labels and tags differently in google.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

Make the optimization of Turbonomic by Turbonomic available per default when deploying on OpenShift

The Turbonomic OVA always includes the feature that Turbonomic optimizes itself and displays itself as business application. For this purpose the OVA included Prometheus to gather the required metrics, prometurbo to import those to Turbonomic, kub...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future 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...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

Context help on VM Policy Settings would really help customer understanding, and reduce calls to support.

I had to explain Memory Increase recommendations in detail last week - and a lot of the confusion was a lack of understanding of the scaling constraints. It would have been really helpful to drive home concepts with context help. Either the letter...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

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...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

When exporting all Cloud Pending Actions from Actions Center, we would like to have the Resource ID (vendor ID from the entity information widget) included in the Export.

This would be extremely useful when reconciling cost data between Turbonomic and the AWS Billing console. Our FinOps Team and Budget Managers use data from both Turbonomic and AWS Billing Console to show the value of Turbonomic Recommended Actions.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

API Guide Enhancement

In meeting with a customer recently to help them troubleshoot API issues that they were telling us about, we asked if they had our API guide and they said that yes they had it, but it offered very little assistance and us introducing them to Swagg...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration

API request url needs updating

In meeting with a customer recently to troubleshoot API issues he said he was having, we noticed something in Swagger that was failing. We realized that in the request URL, it had an old url string that needs to be updated. It lists /vmturbo/ wher...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 0 Not under consideration