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IBM Turbonomic ARM

Group creation for Volumes , when selecting account, need to have regex filter capability added

when you try to create a group of volumes based on accounts, you have to manually select each account rather than use a regex. This is challenging for AT&T as they have over 3k accounts
5 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Sort the list of Policies into alphabetical order

As a Turbo admin, I'd like to be able to quickly scan the list of Policies (especially the Default & User defined policies) to find the one I'm looking for. The list of Policies is currently not sorted, which makes it difficult to find the Pol...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Submitted

Enable a default policy setting for Virtual Volume detached number of days for deletion

As a Turbo admin, I want to be able to set a global policy that says: "Do not generate volume delete actions if the volume has not been in an unattached state for at least 'N' days". Currently, the scope of the Unattached for 'N' days is controlle...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

When attaching an Execution Schedule to a Policy, give precedence to the Policy name column in the select list

As a Turbo policy admin, I'd like to be able to attach a schedule (Policy schedule or Execution schedule) without having to manually expand the Name column of the Attach schedule panel. Currently, when I attach a schedule, the list of schedules (s...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Allow the use of Groups when adding an Account (or other) filter to a policy

This idea is similar to the following ideas: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TURBO-I-1532 https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TURBO-I-1539 When adding an Account criterion to a Policy filter, you must use an enumerated checkbox list (or manually type the acco...
3 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Submitted

Change JVM Heap values inside containers

We already have other technologies doing this: https://scaleops.com/product/java-resource-management/ I spoke with Java and Integration SE here to get some ideas what is going on there. Here are the findings: From Java 10 and beyond, enables autom...

Enforce Resource Configuration as Multiples of Increment Values in Container Specs Policies

I would like to submit an enhancement request for Turbonomic regarding policy settings for Container Specs. Currently, Turbonomic policies allow us to define: minimum configuration, maximum configuration, and increment steps. However, it would be ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 1 Submitted
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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.

Account for hosts in maintenance mode in Plan function

I have a group of VMs spread out across multiple racks-- let's say 100 providers. During host consolidation efforts, we've placed several of the hosts across the racks in maintenance mode --let's say we put 20 in maintenance mode. When you scope t...
14 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 1 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...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 0 Future consideration