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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Automatically enable CPU and Memory hotadd

I would like to see a policy option for enabling hot-add as part of a pre or post action. this would simply adoption and onboarding of Virtual machines.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 5 Planned for future release

Import DRS Virtual Machine Options settings

Today, Turbo imports DRS affinity and anti-affinity rules. These rules help customers keep VMs together, apart, or only on certain hosts. Some customers (Facebook, NBC) use DRS's Virtual Machine Options to override DRS automation. This settings ar...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Planned for future release

Provide user notification of unsupported cloud instance type

As CSPs release new instance types and the customer deploys them to their environment before Turbo has implemented support, notify the user of the unsupported instance types. This will ensure that the user knows that action generation is suppresse...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 4 Future consideration

Combine Azure volume scaling with VM scaling based on VM tags

What is the desired customer use case?: The customer would like from a policy to trigger the actions and execute the n actions at the same time (automatically/programmatically using API calls based on VM tags to select all the action related to o...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Not under consideration

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings to avoid customer confusion

Clearly identify Cloud vs On-prem specific policy settings Turbonomic is showing both cloud and on-prem policy settings when cloud VMs settings are ignored (cloud VMs settings should not appear to avoid customer confusion) For customers that have ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 1 Future consideration

Support rightsizing and mangling AWS Lambda functions

As clients are maturing in the cloud, we are noticing more services and application moving towards a server-less architecture. Identifying which configuration on Lambda is suitable based on the demand is challenging to customers, and each configur...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 3 Future consideration

NewRelic Alerts suppression when PMC stop virtual machines

We have configured virtual machines with NewRelic alerts and integrated with SNOW. So whenever the VM powered off, a NewRelic alert will be triggered and a SNOW incident also created. So we want PMC talk to NewRelic to suppress the alerts before P...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Planned for future release

NameSpace, Node Label Group Tag & AppCat Tags: Reports

Need to have Tag columns in the NameSpace widget view and downloaded spreadsheet view to be able to sort capacity by Node Label Group tag & by AppCat tag. Otherwise this is a tedious process to show the total AppCat's NameSpace Usage by Node L...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 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...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 10 Future consideration

Support for Custom VMs

GCP have a great feature that enable customers to change instance size for different types than regular family published size. This is considered as a custom VMs and can be used for IaaS and GKE clusters. Turbonomic still don't support this type, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Planned for future release