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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Consider "Billable transactions" for action on Azure Managed Disks

If you resize a Azure disk from Premium SSD (P) to Standard SSD (E), initially, lower costs, but at Standard family (E) you are charged for operations too ( https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurestorageblog/cost-saving-with-standard-ssd-bi...
19 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Turbonomic: Add support to install OVA on Nutanix Acropolis (not just target support)

As a customer, we need Turbonomic to support installations of on-prem Turbonomic servers, including SaaS components on Nutanix.Nutanix publishes a how-to for importing an OVA and running it. However this needs to be tested and supported by the pro...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 17 Future consideration

Correctly Calculate Parking Realized Savings

In the Executed Actions widget, the savings realized by suspend actions (as a consequence of a parking schedule) are incorrectly calculated. We downloaded the exported file and validated multiple cases. In the first place, it calculates the saving...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Future consideration

Calculate Realized Savings using Effective Cost Basis

When we set the configuration of Cost Basis to use the Effective Cost (instead of on-demand), the Potential Savings are calculated based on Effective Cost, while the Realized Savings are calculated based on On-demand Cost. The consequence is that ...

Create a parking policy for PMC users not to start any VM more than 7 days in park my cloud

To avoid more uptime of the VM which is underutilization. If need user can revisit and extend the pause of the VM after 7 days.
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1

To allow Kubeturbo to send data to more than one Turbonomic backend server

When migrating Turbonomic, customers often run both the new and old instances in parallel to validate that the new server is functioning correctly. This allows them to compare results side by side. However, the current Kubeturbo implementation onl...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 0 Needs more information

Provide a means for high availability of the Turbonomic platform

As a user I would like the ability to run Turbonomic in an active/active or active/passive model, so if my primary (or any) Turbonomic instance in my environment fails, I can continue operations without putting my infrastructure and business appli...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Future consideration

VMem Request recommendation mode - resize ABOVE max

Select the bottom to enable/disable recommendation's generation below and ABOVE the VMem Request value. Adding a screenshot of the tool with the below option already available. Would be possible to add the resize ABOVE, too?
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Functionality already exists

Please make the Price adjustment tab cloud agnostic and allow users to enter in a static discount for a resource type

Currently, the Price adjustment tab is only valid for AWS subscriptions, despite there already being a separate AWS discounts tab. This is very confusing. Intutively, I would think the price adjustment tab should be used without without a billing ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Integration of Groups with Cloudability business mappings

Currently there are little to no apparent integrations of Turbonomic with Cloudability. One feature that would be of high priority is to integrate "business mappings" that are leveraged in cloudability to "groups" used to group resources in Turbon...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Submitted