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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Enable granular automation for databases

At current version, a Turbonomic admin can't choose the direction that a Database action can be executed. Even at Group creation, we don't have filters to pick just performance or Savings or if the Cost Impact is positive or negative (because some...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 Future consideration

Add Support for AlwaysOn Clusters in addition to FCI Clusters

many organization utilize AlwaysOn instead of FCI because AlwaysOn does not require shared storage.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Under review

VM Family upgrade to newer version even in case of no underutilization

We were looking if Turbo can provide any recommendation of VM Family upgrade even if there was no underutilization. For e.g when we compared the F series VM family, we could see the V2 version providing faster and cheaper VM of the same core. Whil...
16 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted

kubeturbo CLI support

To make Turbonomic utilization in a high rates, specially by developers and operators, we should have a kubeturbo CLI, so at the k8s terminal we can get pending actions that affect performance or indicate savings, like: kubeturbo get action -perfo...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Not under consideration

Within Turbo I should be able to select a group of items based on a larger group.

In my example I have created a group of accounts within our cloud environment, i should then be able to either apply a policy to the VM's that are in that group, or created a group of VM's that are in those accounts rather than having to duplicate...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Multiple Actions for GCP.

Hi friends. Today there is a limitation in IBM Turbonomic for any GCP actions that multiple actions belonging to the same VM cannot be executed simultaneously and we need to execute them one at a time. However, it is allowed by the Turbonomic UI r...
18 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Submitted

Having real names against usernames

Minor thing .. when creating a user on the appliance, any chance extra fields for that users real name, department and contact details ?
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Add a description field of at least 256 characters to Groups and Policies to allow for annotation of when and why they were created for and what other objects they correspond to.

Just as this description field is used in this idea submission, a description field in the Groups and Policies will allow us to tag them with metadata that will be useful in remembering when and why we created them.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Implement Custom Roles & RBAC Control via Entity/Tag

This would benefit all users of Turbonomic by allowing administrators to define custom roles, as well as the permissions applied to these roles either globally or by entity/tag and their respective child objects. This would enable application owne...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 9 Future consideration

Disable All Actions Switch under Global Default Policies must include Parking Actions. Currently does not.

People might assume that the Global Defaults Disable All Actions switch might work on Parking actions. And then during a cutover, machines would be turned off by accident causing massive disruption. EITHER this switch should INCLUDE parking action...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration