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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM Turbonomic ARM
Categories Documentation
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 6, 2023

Context help on VM Policy Settings would really help customer understanding, and reduce calls to support.

I had to explain Memory Increase recommendations in detail last week - and a lot of the confusion was a lack of understanding of the scaling constraints. It would have been really helpful to drive home concepts with context help. Either the letter  i with a short help description or a link to the relevant area in the documentation.

E.g.  Rate of Resize: 2.0. 

When resizing resources for a VM, Turbonomic calculates the optimal values for VMem, VCPU and VStorage. But it does not necessarily make a change to that value in one action. Turbonomic uses the Rate of Resize setting to determine how to make the change in a single action. Read More here - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.7.6?topic=prem-vm-policies 

I spend a LOT of time explaining these setting to customers so please prioritize these. 

Max Observation Period

Min Observation Period

Desired State

Scaling Target vCPU Utilization.  ( i do like the i which explains this is only for public cloud - extend this to VM Settings)

Scaling Target vMem Utilization ( i do like the i which explains this is only for public cloud - extend this to VM Settings)

Idea priority Medium