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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Prevent merge policies to be automatically deleted when one scoped member of the policy (host, network, storage, etc) is deleted or removed.

When creating merge policies, if for example, a cluster merge policy contains hostCluster1, hostCluster2 and hostCluster3, and one of those hostCluster is removed from vCenter or from Turbo, the merge police gets automatically deleted, so the cust...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0

Turbonomic must provide the consistent logic as key summary(text explanation) to Admins for the recommendation action.

The image of "Turbonomic recommendation action" as attached is just an example. Turbonomic is recommending that the current AWS EC2 VM be changed from A type to B type for better resource utilization. However, we can not know why the recommendatio...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 5 Future consideration

Support for HCI Fusion

Hi Team, Customers are interested to integrate HCI Fusion with Turbonomic. As of now Target is not supported. Thank you.
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Submitted

Direct Access to a Complete List of Successful and Failed Actions

To enhance transparency and accountability, Turbonomic should implement a comprehensive audit trail capturing all actions (including successful and failed attempts) and configuration changes within the platform. This will enable clients to easily ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Retroactive proposals (before 90 days)

I want you to make recommendations using any 90 days of data from the past.Not the last 90 days.The goal is to provide recommendations that take into account past load peaks so that users can perform optimizations in a planned manner. Attach a ref...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 2 Future consideration

Capture utilization history for frequently redeployed workloads

As a user of Turbonomic I would like my workloads that I redeploy every 30 days, to have their utilization captured historically so that i can use more than 30 days of utilization data in scaling analysis.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Add an "at least" option to go up to maximum when scaling up and down to minimum when scaling down

Today, Turbonomic calculates the desired sizing of a VM and then generates an action to go there. Currently if there's a minimum set in a policy, Turbonomic could just discard the action if the Desired State is below the minimum and then not resiz...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 0 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

Park ASG's or VMSS from EKS/AKS clusters

As now, it's only supported park ASG's and VMSS's that is not related to k8s clusters. The demand is to shutdown and turn on an entire k8s clusters for cost savings. They are doing today using scripts and it's welcome bring this feature inside Tur...
22 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Future consideration

Deletion Action for Long-Unused Virtual Machines (with unused volume deletion)

I believe that generating a deletion action for virtual machines that haven't been used for a long time could lead to more effective cost reduction. Do we have any plans to implement this? While the instances themselves are shut down using the PAR...
23 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Not under consideration