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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Allow resizing of a VM when the VM is not running

Scale actions to resize or change the instance type of a VM in Azure do not function on a VM that is stopped/deallocated. Many of our VMs are scheduled to be stopped outside of normal business hours. We also have a schedule policy to have "execute...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 2 Delivered

Implement capacity adjustability for active-active consistent resize groups

If we have a group of 2 active-active vms that are running at 80% capacity and one fails over all traffic to the other, we would exceed utilization capacity. We need to be able to configure this capacity limit for scaling purposes in these scenari...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Delivered

Allow for the creation of Turbonomic groups based on VMware Virtual Machine Hardware Versions

As a user with a large VMware environment who is automating action execution through ServiceNow I would like the ability to create groups based on VM Hardware version. Turbonomic is currently recommending to increase the number of vCPU's outside t...

Change the Memory Setting in "Host Templates" to Gigabytes rather than Megabytes

Due to the size of memory in all hardware now having the memory setting in megabytes takes some additional time to work out as have to calculate the exact MB amount when converting from GB in machine. Would be easier to have the memory amount sett...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Delivered

Tags and cmdb reporting

The ability to easily customize the reports and utilize tags and the CMDB without having to engage Turbonomic and/or manually combine the data with Excel.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Delivered

Have a way export the Action Detail screen into a PDF document

It is good that we now have direct URL that can lead to individual Action Detail page. I will suggest we add a function to allow user to download/export the Action Detail page into a PDF document. This can be implement by ... 1. add an export butt...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Delivered

Regarding the price display for "Aurora Standard" and "Aurora I/O-Optimized"

Aurora has multiple prices even for the same instance type. However, in the current Turbonomic UI, it's unclear which price is being displayed. Is it possible to make this clear? ------------------------------------------------------------ https:/...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Delivered

Add Cloud Provider Filtering on Target Configurations

Please provide the option to filter the target configurations by Cloud Provider. Currently the only filter option is account/subscription status and I would really like to be able to search on AWS/Azure/GCP.
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Delivered

User defined Business App (ATD) should have more application components: Namespace, Workload Controllers, Clusters

AppDev personas want to interact with Turbo from their perspective: their application. The definition of this application is a hybrid set of services that come together to form a composite app. This application is frequently made up of hybrid set ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Delivered

Allow staggering of high impact changes

Problem: App teams: "we cannot have these X number of vms down at the same time" Infra engineers: "we cannot support manual policy creation for each execution schedule for each set of X VMs to reboot in the same CHG window" Description: We have ma...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Delivered