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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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New Role to delegate administration at a logical grouping of targets ( SubTenant)

For Enterprises that has multiple departments, with each having their own requirements, it will be difficult to manage the administration centrally. I will be very helpful to have a subtenant (logical) and have an administrator role at that level,...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Supported migration path to new OVA deployment

Allow configuration data and historical data to be migrated from one XL deployment to a new XL OVA deployment. This would benefit all users who wish to deploy a newer version of the OVA for security or other reasons and remove the need for a lot o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Display the actual state of a resource in an "Unavailable" state

In legacy PMC, today, we would mark a resource in an "Unavailable" state because the actual state of this resource is not explicitly mapped. This is an issue for the user because it is unclear what error state this resource is in and so there is n...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Add Citrix Hypervisor support to the main stream hypervisor support in Turbonomic

Citrix targets and support for its targets are not prime time at the moment in Turbonomic.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Not under consideration

allow non-admins to view policies and how they are configured

When a user looks at a recommendation, they can see that certain policies are being used, but they are unable to see the policies themselves or what the policy is composed of. A user can see hyperlinks to the policies but they get re-directed to t...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Utilization of GCP committed discounts.

Discount Inventory of Azure RIs have the information of percent utilization and the VMs which are using that RI for each RI which is good to analyze. The similar information of percent utilization and and VMs which are utilizing the GCP committed ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Not under consideration

Add grouping filter to filter VMs by Storage Used/Prov

VM grouping has filters for groups by CPU or Memory sizing, would like the same filtering capability using Storage Used and Storage Provisioned metrics.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Future consideration

Support for Open Policy Agent

While it is great to have automation and placement policies in Turbonomic, it would be important to execute the actions recommended by Turbonomic in accordance with policies defined by organisations. These policies could be related to security, au...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 1 Not under consideration

Reserved Instance Coverage Graph should ALSO be about % of costs not just % of machine hours.

Management at this company are more interested in what % of VM costs are covered by RIs than the % of machine hours. While RI Coverage % by machine hours is useful - can we have a radio button to switch it to costs.
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Increase the max observation period for VM Default policy to 120 days rather than the current maximum of 90 days

It would be useful so that we can track more 1 quarter's worth of performance & capacity metrics data. We have application customers with VM's that run hot only once per quarter and would like to see their capacity and performance data coverin...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration