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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Have the possibility to set up minimum number of hosts AND a odd/even constraint for suspension/provision hosts in cluster

Many customers have "streched" VMware clusters (I'm not talking about VSAN clusters, but regular clusters, being just spread in two rooms or two DCs). Turbonomic might recommend suspend actions in the live market and in "optimize on-prem" plans bu...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Add more info for the display of "No Data Available" to distinguish whether data is unavailable or there is no data.

For example, with"Nesessary Investment" widget, if there is none of Investment related actions, it shows "No Data Available"....but it should be showing as "No proposal" ... I would like to be able to distinguish between them. (Data should be avai...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Target health check “TEST button”

Hi Team :-) In Legacy PMC product we have a TEST button which can check the health of the Target. I think it would be amazing to have the same in Turbonomic Here below how it works: After you run TEST, and let's say, there is any issue with List r...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 3 Future consideration

Dynamically identify root volumes

Dynamically identify root volumes in order for us to exclude root volumes from policies This will allow us to filter out root volumes from some volume scaling actions. We want to be able to use the filter option in the group creation wizard to sco...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review

Turbonomic Parking Schedules - missing time zone offset

Can the time zone in turbonomic parking schedules also show the law text difference, or offset, of the local time from UTC. This is currently displayed in PMC and administrators use this infomation to accurately set schedules to meet strict busine...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Workloads at Kirkland being seasonal, max observation period is needed to be 180 days

Kirkland would like to set the max observation period to 180 days from current max allowable 90 days.
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release

Allow execute actions on the disk attached to an instance that is in an unmanaged instance group

There are large potential savings to update the disk type per the Turbonomic suggestions. However, turbonomic UI states "the volume is attached to an instance in an instance group. Scale actions for this volume can only be executed in Google Cloud...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 5

Kubeturbo automatically updates so that it is in sync with the Turbonomic service instance version that is deployed on GKE

There are thousands of K8s clusters cross all major public clouds being monitored by the Turbonomic instance deployed on GKE. Whenever Turbonomic instance is upgraded to a new version, manaully updating the kubeturbo agent is very tedious. Request...

IBM Cloud Rightsizing Support for VPC and Classic in Turbonomic

This proposal introduces advanced IBM Cloud-specific capabilities within Apptio Cloudability to enable automated rightsizing recommendations for both VPC-based and Classic infrastructure environments. Key Capabilities: - Full IBM Cloud Integration...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Turbonomic - Develop Official Support for AWS Outposts

Customers are increasingly using AWS Outposts within their IT infrastructure. Despite being unsupported, customers who are able to target these instances via VPC subnetting are required to add to their MVS count for licensing. We have a current IB...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 5 Future consideration