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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Replication support for External MySQL DB -

Currently External MYSQL DB where the Turbo is installed doesnt support replication. though we are configuring the replication in MysQL , the sync is getting break every day once the file roll over happens.

Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending capabilities to on-premises VMs

Extend Turbo's parking/suspending functionality to VMs in vmware/hyper-v enviornments. For all the same reasons Turbo supports parking VMs in the cloud, Turbo should extend this functionality to on-prem workloads. By turning off idle resources, Tu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

No tags for empty vm specs

When we export App service plan Delete actions, We noticed that tags not appear, they're not there and would love to see them included. They only appear to be missing in Delete actions for VM spec.
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add Notification Center notifications to your workflow

I would like to be able to automatically post on Slack etc. when there is a Notification Center notification in the workflow. There may be situations where you cannot find a target on holidays or when you are not watching Turbonomic, so we would a...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Custom Workflows 0 Under review

Dollar value for on-prem scaling - just like Cloud. Each action has a saving/cost to it.

The customer would like Turbo to put a price tag on each action. They want to be able to tell how much adding vMem or vCPU or a combo. to a VMware VM costs. The customer is aware that it depends on a bunch of things (cost/hr of host, cost/hr of da...
10 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Planned for future release

Report on Amortized Cost Per AWS Account

We need Turbonomic to report amortized costs per AWS to match what is being reported in CloudHealth (and ultimately what is being charged-back to Application owners).
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Future consideration

Ability to set a Maximum Utilization Constraint for nodes in OCP/K8s clusters

As a customer, I need to be able to set a maximum utilization I don't want to pass for nodes, regarding the sum of all requests of all pods running there. Use case is: for production environment, I want to be sure to have enough capacity to retrie...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Future consideration

Support logical groups of resources to allow actions to be sequenced

Add support for “Logical group names” function that Park My Cloud had. logically group resources together that allow me to then sequence the order that groups of resources are stopped and started.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Planned for future release

Add support for GCP SQL database

looking for Stop, Start and Scale a GCP SQL instance.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review