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vm automation policies when vm state is idle - include actions also against any attached volumes

All public cloud scale events require downtime. Downtime involves stopping any services running on these IaaS instances during an action execution activity. If a vm has a park schedule or maintenance window, then this is the ideal time to resize (...
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

enable 'resize when powered off' to work with public cloud vm's

Anyone with public cloud vm's where they want to create an automation policy that executes only when a said vm is idle
4 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Allow percentage parameter for consistent resize fault tolerance (on top of number of nodes)

The current private preview version of Consistent Resize Fault Tolerance support allows for configuration of "number of nodes" a group is capable of losing and supporting from a resize perspective. This idea is to allow configuration by percentage...
about 1 month ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Under review

Filter Parking entities by custom group

At the moment if we want to park a group of VM's using Turbo we can select by Resource Group or Subscription. It would be helpful to be able filter to a group of VM's defined in a custom group or related to a specific application topology
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Not under consideration

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Under review

Enable VMEM and VCPU Minimum Thresholds for Cloud based VMs

When dealing with 3rd party products, support plans, and licensing, there are often constraints placed on systems for preserving a minimum specification. Same would be true for maximums when it comes to things like database licensing that is tied ...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Sort and Group Policy List

When viewing any particular entity or scope, the list of policies on the Policy tab is a randomly sorted randomly named list. Since a majority of these policies are automatically being generated by Turbonomic based on cloud provider constraints, i...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 3 Planned for future release

Exclude entities from licensing based on tags, services etc. so not all entities are discovered for a specific integration.

For a given integration such as AWS, exclude specific services such as EMR that is underpinned by EC2. This allows Organisations flexibility with regards to entities that need to be discovered and optimised for the target account.
5 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Future consideration

Support for parking of Azure Analysis Services

Azure analysis services is used for our reporting data model and not needed during off hours.
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Create an Account level policy entity type

When accounts have many different resource entity types, it's very cumbersome to create a generic policy for half a dozen resource types across dozens of accounts. If there was an Account policy type, high-level settings such as Action Generation:...
8 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration