Turbonomic Previews

Previews

The Turbonomic preview program provides an opportunity for customers to deliver feedback on upcoming features before they are publicly available. These previews help Turbonomic build customer feedback into the product much earlier in the process and affirm its customer-centric design focus. To apply to participate in the program, you must first log in to IBM Community with your IBM ID.

Please contact the PM directly to add your customer to the Preview Program.

Azure SQL MI RI Aware Actions:

By enabling SQL MI Reservation support, Turbonomic will empower customers to maximize their Azure SQL MI investments, reduce waste, and align with FinOps best practices.

  • Preview Dates: Through 3Q 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.20.6
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Action Execution Agent via Turbonomic Assistant:

New user experience to review and execute Turbonomic actions via AI Assistant chat.

  • Preview Dates: Through 4Q 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.20.5
  • Pre-requisites: For SaaS instance only and must have Turbonomic assistant available.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

VMware to GCP Plan support:

As customers are migrating off of VMware, Turbonomic will deliver new functionality extending the migration plan functionality to support migration from VMware to GCP scenario.

  • Preview Dates: Through 3Q 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.20.5
  • Pre-requisites: Customer should have VMware and GCP target.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

AI Target Failure Remediation:

Target Failure Remediation AI functionality leverages customer logs and official IBM documentation to provide root cause analysis and remediation steps to help customers fix target failures with clear resolution steps.

  • Preview Dates: Through 3Q 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.20.2
  • Pre-requisites: For SaaS deployments only. Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

In-Memory Entities Store for Stats Resolution:

Move entities-type resolution from the entities DB table to an in-memory store backed by recent topology data, optimising stats queries for live entities and reducing DB retention Overhead.

  • Preview Dates: Through 3Q 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.20.1
  • Pre-requisites: Customers must have kafka enabled for topology broadcast and sufficient memory allocation for in-memory entity store.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Maintenance Component:

Early Access database optimization capability for Turbonomic component MYSQL/MariaDB databases, enabling controlled identification and optimization of fragmented tables to improve database efficiency and query performance.

  • Preview Dates: Through 3Q 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.20.1
  • Pre-requisites: Maintenance component enabled in the target environment. Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

AI Action Summary Agent:

AI Action Summary clarifies Turbonomic actions into clear, business focused insights - explaining what to do, why it matters, and the expected impact so users can act with confidence.

  • Preview Dates: Through 3Q 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.20.2
  • Pre-requisites: For SaaS deployments only and must have preview flags enabled.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

IBM cloud support for VM's and Volumes

IBM Turbonomic is soon to release a Preview that provides intelligent automation for optimizing IBM Cloud infrastructure, specifically focusing on virtual machines (VSI) and volume.

  • Preview Dates: Through 2H 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.21.1
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Azure SQL MI Reservations (RIs) support

By enabling SQL MI Reservation support, Turbonomic will empower customers to maximize their Azure SQL MI investments, reduce waste, and align with FinOps best practices.

  • Preview Dates: Through Q3 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.20.1
  • Pre-requisites: Customer must have SQL MI Instances and SQL MI Reservations.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

VMware to IBM Cloud Migration Plan support

As customers are migrating off of VMware on IBM Cloud to native IBM Cloud, Turbonomic will deliver new functionality extending the migration plan functionality to support this new scenario.

  • Preview Dates: Through Q3 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.19.6
  • Pre-requisites: Customer must have VMware target and IBM Cloud target.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Tracking externally executed workload controllers and on-prem VM resize actions

Turbonomic now provides visibility into recommended actions that were executed outside the platform, enabling comprehensive tracking of the value derived from Turbonomic.

  • Preview Dates: Through 1H 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.19.1
  • Pre-requisites: Customer executes Turbonomic recommended resize actions on workload controllers or virtual machines outside of Turbonomic and must have Telemetry enabled. Contact PM for enabling feature flag.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

GCP Flex CUD Support

Adding discovery and visualization of GCP Flex CUDs gives customers a complete view of their Google Cloud discount portfolio directly in Turbonomic.

  • Preview Dates: Through 1H 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.19.2
  • Pre-requisites: Customer must have GCP Targeted and Flex CUDs purchased.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Sustainability - Projected Energy usage and Carbon footprint in cloud VM Scale actions

New Sustainability section is available in VM Scale action details in Turbo UI and in SaaS reporting to show the impact of these actions on Energy usage and Carbon emissions.

  • Preview Dates: Through 1H 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.18.3
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Improved RBAC (RBACv2)

Fine tune your Turbonomic permissions, empowering users to manage their own workloads in a true self-service fashion.

  • Preview Dates: Throughout 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.18.5
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag and enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

SLO Guard

Intelligently scale every interconnected service in lockstep to keep applications performing flawlessly — no tuning, no firefighting, just continuous SLO assurance.

  • Preview Dates: Through Q2 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.18.3
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag and enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Azure Scale Set optimization support

Turbonomic will now ingest and discover pricing and utilization metrics at the VMSpec level and provide rightsizing opportunities.

  • Preview Dates: Through Q1 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.18.3
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Oracle cloud support for VM's and Volumes

IBM Turbonomic is soon to release a Preview that provides intelligent automation for optimizing Oracle Cloud infrastructure, specifically focusing on virtual machines (VMs) and volume.

  • Preview Dates: End of Q1 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.18.5
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Compound Delete Actions on Azure VMs

Turbonomic will allow you to review compound delete recommendations for Azure VMs in the same pane where these actions are generated.

  • Preview Dates: Through Q2 2026
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.18.5
  • Pre-requisites: Customers should be interested in reviewing generated Delete VM actions (with suggested Delete Volume actions) and understanding potential cost savings during Early Access.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly