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IBM Turbonomic ARM

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Add target support to IBM PowerVM

I received from Turbonomic & SevONE Sales Director, Technology Business Unit Data,AI&Automation Div. IBM Japan, Ltd. that IBM does not support IBM AIX and Oracle VM on Turbonomic. My client TOHOKU EPC's subisidiary TOiNX requested us to su...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2 Delivered

RightSize vCPU and vMem at the Same Time

For on-prem VMs, I’d like Turbo to be able to RightSize a VM’s vMem and vCPU at the same time instead of requiring a reboot for each action - which further requires 2 separate outage windows because the recommendations go away for ~4 hours when a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Delivered

Displaying Discounted Rates in Turbonomic Dashboard

From customer perspective, the savings that are presented in Turbonomic Dashboard do not reflect the actual savings as these savings are compared against the advertised rates. However, typically, customer has savings plans and discounted rates and...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 0 Delivered

Allow to delete wasted files from Turbonomic UI

Turbonomic recommends actions to delete wasted storage files on datastores. I want the ability to manually accept these and have the files be deleted on the vCenter datastore.

Turbonomic VLAN ID Merge and Mapping for vCenter portgroups with different names but same VLAN IDs

Our superclusters are spread between two VDS within vCenter, 1 for our legacy 10gbe network and the other for our 25gbe ACI network. vCenter requires the port group names to be unique and the unique naming is preventing Turbonomic from merging the...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 4 Delivered

Ability to select local region to deploy ARM SaaS

Many customers in Japan are required to keep their data locally for security and data sovereignty reasons. Several prospects have already asked if ARM SaaS can be deployed in the local region. This is probably the same case for some of the EMEA co...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 5 Delivered

enable the ingestion of Azure SQL Managed Instances

Turbonomic currently ingests some Azure SQL PaaS, but not all. SQL Managed Instances are a class that should be included.

current documentation implies that VCPU Resize Min threshold works in all cases

this caused consternation at the client - where several hours were wasted because of a lack of clarity about how this policy setting works. Current documentation is here,. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.12.2?topic=infrastructure-virtual-machin...
7 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Delivered

Adding GPU capability in Turbonomic

Currenlty GPU resources are not recognized in Turbonomic and we are going big with GPU enabled VMs. Due to wihich GPU enabled clusters are managed manually for VM Motion. This ineeds to be prioritized. Lack of GPU resource understandng in Turbonom...

Add resourceId to the actions api endpoint

Adding the resourceId to the actions api endpoint would be useful for users so that actions can be easily linked back to the azure resources that they are being taken on. This will also allow users to create savings reports where they can easily i...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / APIs / Public Cloud IaaS / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Delivered