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Stop count licenses for unsupported workloads

We have some workloads in Turbonomic that is not supported, like AWS Spot Instances and GCP Custom VMs. We still read and bring those workloads, but count them as a license consumption. We should not count them until fully GA of the feature and pr...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Not under consideration

Add support for IBM PowerVS

A certain customer in Japan has finished Turbonomic's PoC and they found some Turbonomic's issues. I would like to describe one of them here. Turbonomic doesn't support Power VS now. They hope Turbonomic will support it. The customer is considerin...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

It will be greate if turbo resizing action has custom actions like updating other k8s deployment config

When turbo adjust the cpu/memory resource and limits size the container deployments readiness/liveliness probe will be set for the initial values user set when cpu/memory gets resized the container might not be ready in that given time and it will...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Not under consideration

BMO's "WAS ND - Turbo scale out" requirement

One of the teams at BMO is exploring how Turbonomic can help adjust memory for workloads running on WebSphere ND, with the goal of enabling scale-out (add new server instances). This is part of a larger rightsizing effort led by their Infrastructu...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Not under consideration

The Cost Savings Per Month field which is available in downloads - add it to the API

Large customers use the API to blend this data with Portfolio Management Data - the cost savings is a KEY prioritization parameter to get actions taken.
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs 1 Not under consideration

Add an UNDO button for actions

Many times, users approve rightsizing of application VMs based on Turbo recommendations and realize as soon as it is completed that the change causes problems. The immediately request we "put it back" and we need to research the original configura...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 6 Not under consideration

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Allow a user to set min/max number of nodes per any node pool in k8s

Long term: have a definition of a machineset/node group/node pool configuration that a user can define min/max number in terms of action generation and execution - A MachineSet (or any Node Group) could have a policy to control horizontal scaling ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 1 Not under consideration

Oracle ExaData Integration

Customer is using Oracle ExaData - x9m-2 & x8m-2 versions and interested to integrate with Turbonomic.
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 1 Not under consideration

Improved Policy Management - Tagging, Folders & Filters

As an administrator, I would like the ability to organize my automation & placement policies as I define them - either by folder or tag. This would allow me to quickly navigate to specific types of policies built for my environment by cluster,...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration