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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Configure Turbonomic through Terrafrom

Our credit card client intends to configure their all resources through IaC approach (Terraform ) . They want to configure terraform settings through Terraform such as Parking policy etc. Now Terraform provider supports some resource scaling throu...
2 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Snapshots Optimization - Detect orphaned snapshots not actively tied to production workloads

Problem Statement: Cloud environments often accumulate orphaned or long‑running snapshots that exceed their intended retention periods. These snapshots are frequently forgotten, unmanaged, and continue to incur storage costs. Today, detecting and ...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Support for Power Enterprise Pool (PEP) on PowerVM Targets

PEP on IBM Power systems, is a technological solution that allows you to flexibly manage computing resources (processors, memory) on multiple Power servers within the same farm, aggregating the capabilities of multiple machines into a single share...
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration

Support GCP AlloyDB

Please support GCP AlloyDB, which is a competitor to AWS RDS.
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration
123 VOTE

In GCP there are Flex CUDs that are used to reduce Ondemand costs on compute Resources. Turbonomic should discover and take Flex CUDs in consideration when rightsizing

This is useful as more clients on GCP are moving towards flex cuds and Turbonomic's rightsizing decisions need to take those into consideration to have trustworthy decisions on GCP compute resources.

Extending Sustainability Metrics in IBM Turbonomic for Kubernetes and Workload Controllers

Idea: Currently, IBM Turbonomic provides comprehensive sustainability information for virtual machines, including energy and carbon footprint data, as well as the impact of optimization actions on these metrics. However, to fully achieve our susta...
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Sustainability 0 Submitted

Turbonomic and Karpenter Integration

With the new InPlace Pod Resize from 1.33+ versions, Turbonomic can change resources without trigger a pod restart. When customers are using Karpenter they can leverage cluster management to Karpenter and use consolidation, which restore back the ...

Add Action Execution Markers to Line Chart Widgets

Across Turbonomic, line chart widgets allow users to review historical trends for various resource metrics. However, it is currently not possible to visually identify when a specific Turbonomic action was executed on the timeline. To make it easie...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Add optimization support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters(NC2) on AWS

Hi, Please add optimization support for Nutanix Cloud Clusters(NC2) on AWS. https://www.nutanixbible.com/10a-book-of-nutanix-clusters-aws.html
12 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Submitted

Daily extract of Scheduled parking and Script to start VMs on predefined schedule during failure of turbo

Over the past 5–6 months, we have faced multiple issues with the Turbonomic UI, including connectivity problems, target failures, discovery failures, and instances where, after upgrades, Turbonomic did not provide details about VMs that are part o...
13 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Parking 0 Under review