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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Azure HyperScale DBs have read-only replicas which are very expensive. Can Turbo provide recommendations for the number of these?

Azure HyperScale Databases have the option for read-only replicas. These can cost $1000+/mo in addition to the cost of the main db. Is there a way that Turbo can recommend how many of these read-only replicas are needed to maintain performance but...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Future consideration

PowerVM - LPAR HA support

LPAR HA setup, when one LPAR from group scales so does also the other for consistency
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Create alternative container rightsizing action execution to directly update pod resource

The idea is mimc vertical pod autoscaler (VPA https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/tree/master/vertical-pod-autoscaler) initial mode. "Initial": VPA only assigns resource requests on pod creation and never changes them later. This is just anot...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

The ability to configure a schedule in our policy CR

For resizing operations (vertical scaling) our users are going to want to control when automatic actions are applied. Via the UI I do see an option to create a policy schedule.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Provide a means of formatting time properties in Webhook workflows

As a user I would like the ability to format time properties for webhooks as Unix epoch milliseconds rather than iso8601, so I can store the action times in an external systems and plot them on a timeline, allowing me to correlate when the Turbono...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 1 Future consideration

Follow VM start & stop order on vSphere policy

After vSphere v6.7,  https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-7A132146-2779-4F4B-B39D-EE4F129DB79C.html There is a feature that allows administrators to control the order in which VMs are started and stopp...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Improve stitching where multiple services are backed by the same workload

Turbo should be able to handle multiple services that are front-ending the same workload PM update: Will convert this to an improvement on how Turbonomic stitches Services to Containerized Workload to be handled under 2 master epics: Multiple Serv...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

Getting container IP from extractor

Netskope would like the ability to get container IP from the extractor. PM comment: this is not functionality related to Turbonomic, rather an issue related to choice of or configuration of the Prometheus exporter used.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Working with Prometheus in container environment

Today we don’t manage exporter, and metric has to be in Turbo namespace, but Netskope would like it to be available in all namespaces.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Not under consideration

Cloud scaling actions in AWS should also include instance-level network performance metrics to assure performance after being executed

The following link (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/amazon-ec2-instance-level-network-performance-metrics-uncover-new-insights/) was provided by our cloud ops team when discussions were held regarding the validity of T...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration