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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Visualize realized savings for actions taken in a specific timeframe

The realized savings widget shows savings for all actions taken historically, even when a specific timeframe is scoped. In order to properly report on the realized savings from a specific date, we only want to see the savings that start to accrue ...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Future consideration

Realized Savings Details - Add column - Date

In the Realized Savings Details does not have a date column both in the UI as well the Excel report. The suggestion is to add to add a new column to add the Date Information in this view
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Better Overview of Hybrid environment managed by Turbonomic

Better breakdown of larger supply chain and easy to get VMware, Cloud, Containers segregated information
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Bulk Create IAM Roles and add as Targets when adding a Master Billing account

Turbonomic supports ingesting AWS data from already created IAM Role/Users for specific AWS Accounts. This is great for 1 or 2 AWS accounts, but for customers who have 100s of AWS accounts, this can be very tedious. I am aware AWS allows their use...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Future consideration

Allow execute actions on the disk attached to an instance that is in an unmanaged instance group

There are large potential savings to update the disk type per the Turbonomic suggestions. However, turbonomic UI states "the volume is attached to an instance in an instance group. Scale actions for this volume can only be executed in Google Cloud...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 5

Kubeturbo automatically updates so that it is in sync with the Turbonomic service instance version that is deployed on GKE

There are thousands of K8s clusters cross all major public clouds being monitored by the Turbonomic instance deployed on GKE. Whenever Turbonomic instance is upgraded to a new version, manaully updating the kubeturbo agent is very tedious. Request...

It would be desirable if multiple currencies could be handled by one Turbonomic

Currently, only one currency symbol can be set, so if AWS (USD) and Azure (Yen) are mixed, it will be confusing. Each time, we create a group just for AWS and refer to that dashboard, which is cumbersome.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time.

Showing P90, P95, P99 actions all at the same time. If showing for all VM is too hard due to resource perspective, it is ok to run as "Plan" basis and show the result in a screen.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 2 Future consideration

Option to evaluate Cost Impact without considering commitments (only based on-demand rate)

When scaling VM, Cost Impact is impacted by discount coverages. They may vary, especially Savings Plan allocation are unpredictible and Reservations behavior are also very complex to predict.Then it makes sense to determine the Cost Impact only us...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration

Change vm uptime over more than a week

When someone is working with Turbonomic, inside action > Buy > Reserved instance we are only able to see the widget "VM UPTIME OVER A TYPICAL WEEK". That seems like all the buy reservations actions were based on a week study. We would like t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration