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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add support for a self-hosted appliance on public cloud IaaS

A number of customers are for a self-hosted deployment of a virtual appliance hosted on Public Cloud IaaS as they cannot use SaaS due to data privacy consideration and do not want to go for an OVA deployment as they either have outsourced the on-p...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Add list of Policies to the bottom of the Details Action page on volume actions. Currently it is inconsistent with other entity types like EC2, RDS, etc.

When viewing a virtual machine or database server the Action details page has a list of policies at the bottom of the proposed changes, so you can quickly see what's applied to it that is driving that recommendation. It would be handy to also see ...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

To be able to change Scaling Target VMEM Utilization for On-Premises

Currently, almost all of my SQL Servers are considered to not have enough memory according to Turbonomic as it appears to want 70% free memory. This was told to me by support. This threshold is way above what VMware and Microsoft consider to be be...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

The capacity values are different from temporarily created groups (by Turbonomic) VS groups created by users

This Idea is being raised from the bug ticket opened in Turbonomic JIRA- https://jsw.ibm.com/browse/TRB-52963. This bug came up from JPMC. For example, there are a total of 8 hosts in the entire environment, the capacity of memory is only 3 TB/hos...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Cisco Intersight Managed Mode

Moving from Cisco UCS Manager to Intersight Managed Mode is resulting in a loss of feature functionality in data to enhance marketplace decisions. Please add support for Intersight Managed Mode to retain equivalent data as we add more and more IMM...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

vVol datastore support for storage moves

Allow storage move actions from VMFS datastore clusters to vVol datastores to provide a way to automate migration to vVols
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 3 Planned for future release

Lower the size of the .ova hard drive

When importing the .ova the machine disk is 1,75Tib. Even if all this space is not used up thanks to thin provisioning, it is still a bad practice to over-provision that much storage. In our case the thinning of the space is done on the storage ba...
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Provide a means of selecting all items on all pages

As a user, I would like the ability to select all items in a list/collection, so that I don't have to click 'show more' for each 20 items in each page to select all items on all pages.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Planned for future release

"Select All" doesn't select All

While working with Wells Fargo on their new Turbo deployment, we were going through and running plans and after running through many plans, we realized that there were not near as many vm's in the plans as their should be. We went back and went th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 Planned for future release

Have a ThoughtSpot report to show historical growth trend by entity type

We'd like to see a historical growth trend by entity type (e.g., how many VMs, DBs, etc. each day/week/month for the past <time period>)
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release