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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Plan results shall include all commodities (e.g. IOPS) relevant for the resulting sizing

When running a plan, especially a hardware refresh plan, you cannot see the reasoning for the resulting number of hosts if the reason is a commodity like IOPS not displayed in the plan results. Therefore, please display all commodities (e.g. IOPS)...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

In overlay windows such as action center the link to the entity on which homepage the overlay was opened does not work

In overlay windows such as action center the link to the entity on which homepage the overlay was opened does not work as it refers to the same URL. This is the case in all Turbo installations self-hosted and SaaS. Find attached a video outlining ...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Add support for vSAN Witness host

Implementing vSAN Stretched Clusters in a VMware vSphere environment requires setting up a witness host storing all meta data but hosting no VMs and acting as a quorum in a split brain situation (see https://core.vmware.com/resource/vsan-stretched...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Support kubeturbo communication flowing to a Secure Client

Kubeturbo communication need to be stablished directly to the SaaS Server, including On Prem Cloud Native clusters (in Hybrid environments). In a High secure environments with dozens (and even hundreds) of clusters, customers need to open firewall...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Functionality already exists

Track new IaaS and DBaaS families releases and support them faster

Vendors are updating their instance families almost a year ago and we are not supporting yet in Turbonomic. As example: Standard_B8als_v2, Standard_B16ls_v2, Standard_B8ls_v2 from Azure.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0

Allow choose direction of action for Container Platform Plans

If you plan a Container Platform Cluster optimization, it only permit choose scale or not. If it's possible to pick just resize down container spec and/or resize up, users will know the difference between actions. This is aligned with: https://ide...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Future consideration

automated & time-bound exclusion of certain VMs from downsizing due to CTO mandate

Customer story. The CTO mandates certain VMs are excluded for a certain time from the standard downsizing policies which run at each month end. Current process is a bore - manually pulling these machines into a RECOMMEND ONLY OVERRIDE group (leavi...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Support new families at GCP target - C4 and N4

Customers and Magazine Luiza started to question when we are supporting actions considering the new GCP families: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/compute-and-infrastructure-enhancements-at-next24 N4 and C4, also AMD VMs.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release

Azure Savings Plans Utilization Tracking

I want to be able to 1) list Azure Savings Plan commitments, followed by 2) tracking the utilization of the specific Azure Savings Plan such as 100%, 95%, etc. and 3) display the workloads that are consuming from the savings plan.
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Expand Azure reservation planning to additional Azure resource types supporting Azure reserved instances

Currently Turbonomic only supports planning reservation instances for VMs in Azure. Microsoft provides numerous resource types to purchase reserved instances. I want to make purchases driven on analytics provided by Turbonomic to drive ROI, howeve...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration