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From a VM object at VM level, see all groups it's a part of

I have a VM that I'm trying to test policies on. It is also part of another policy that has a very large subset of scoped vms, named with a sequence of letters and numbers. It's not easy to determine which group it is in, and remove it from that g...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Planned for future release

Cloudability integration with Gen AI agents

Gen AI agents, combined with a Multi-Cloud Platform (MCP) server, are incredibly useful for FinOps because they enable proactive, automated, and intelligent cost management across complex cloud environments. Multiple personas will benefit from it ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / AI/ML in Cloudability 2 Planned for future release

Improvement on Totals

Opened Ticket#TS018957744 and was told the ability to have BI Reports give Total for Jan-Dec (with months showing) wasn't available currently. Not having this feature leads to a download into Excel. Option should be a basic feature.
7 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 3 Planned for future release

Plan tab does not factor in cost sharing rules

It'll be helpful to use the cost views defined with the sharing rules in the Plan tab (Forecast, budget,...). Many companies don't split the budget split for IT department, but rathet by main lines of business. Also, a single resource may be used ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Planned for future release

Targeting Oracle Connections - since Turbonomics requires Oracle Service Name and could be multiple Service names per VM server

creating 1 group for each Oracle VM and having 1 target connection for each Oracle DB service Name - get very cumbersome and quite manual and hard to maintain
11 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APM & Applications & Databases 0 Planned for future release

Import Latency Sensitivity VM setting for vmotion cost calculation

We have some workloads that are latency sensitive and suffer when vMotioned in short sequence. vCenter has VM settings called "latency sensitivity" and "vMotion stun time limit" that would be incredibly beneficial for these types of workloads for ...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Planned for future release

Ability to color-code calculated metrics

Customer would like the ability to replicate 'Budget Variance Details' from Plans. Currently, we can use a calculated metric to recreate the Variance, however, customer likes that Plans color codes the variance based on increase/decrease. Ability ...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Planned for future release

Automatic Snapshot Removal

Snapshots are often taken and forgotten in the environment. They cause both unwanted storage use and performance issue to VMs if left around too long. Would like to be able to create an automation to remove\consolidate snapshots for groups based o...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Planned for future release

have some kind of warning or pop up if a vendor credential -any - failing

We are facing multiple times issues of vendor credential failing and not noticing it immediately. please have a pop up warning saying or some other obvious way on the page without the need to be clicking in the Settings then Vendor to see the vend...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 3 Planned for future release

ORACLE TARGET SUPPORT

CLIENT: "I’d like the Oracle targets to be enhanced so a target can connect to multiple servers like the SQL targets can"
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Planned for future release