Turbonomic Private Previews

Private Previews

The Turbonomic private 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 Private Preview.

Kubeturbo/Prometurbo Auto-Update

A secure and reliable mechanism to ensure Kubeturbo and Prometurbo agents are updated automatically or prevented from connecting with outdated versions to the Turbo server, addressing security risks and maintaining compatibility without compromising cluster integrity.

  • Preview Dates: End of Q3 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: TBD
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

New Containers Tab

A dedicated containers tab is being introduced alongside on-prem and cloud views to help users quickly identify optimization opportunities and take action, featuring an early design of the top actions widget for containers.

  • Preview Dates: Early Q3 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.16.4
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Parking Azure Kubernetes Service (Cluster only)

Allowing the discovery of AKS Clusters as Container platform clusters entity, enabling manual and policy driven Parking schedules to realize cost savings and increase operational efficiency

  • Preview Dates: Through Q2 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.16.4
  • Pre-requisites: Azure Target & Kubeturbo Target enabled with right permissions and execute Parking actions on AKS Clusters.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Terminate Actions on Cloud Resources

Turbonomic would allow you to delete these resources from the same pane where these actions are generated.

  • Preview Dates: Through Q2 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.16.4
  • Pre-requisites:Customer must be willing to execute actions and interested in savings.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Top Actions Widget + Top Actions View in Action Center (Cloud Environment)

Users will be able to quickly and easily identify most valuable actions in their environment that can be executed fast. By categorizing and ranking actions based on low risk and high value will help execute more actions.

  • Preview Dates: Through end of May 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.15.5
  • Pre-requisites: Customers having Cloud targets connected
  • Key contact:  Contact the PM directly

Azure Savings Plans

Turbonomic will now factor in Azure Savings Plans in addition to Reservations, generating more accurate VM scaling actions and potential savings.

  • Preview Dates: Through Q2 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.15.5
  • Pre-requisites: The customer has purchased Azure Savings plans.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Support for Resource Group Scoped Reservations

Turbonomic now manages Azure VM reservations at a granular level. It scales VMs within the resource group (RG) scope to optimize utilization of RG-scoped reservations.

  • Preview Dates: Through Q2 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.15.4
  • Pre-requisites: The customer has purchased reservations scoped to RGs.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Github (Terraform) Integration 1.0

  • Preview Dates: Through February 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.14.6
  • Pre-requisites: Has Terraform resource definitions in Github repos and can provide read-only access to 1 or more repos.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Multiple ServiceNow Target Support

  • Preview Dates: Through February 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.14.4
  • Pre-requisites: Two or more instances of ServiceNow (eg: Dev/UAT & Prod) looking to connect to one instance of Turbonomic
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

On-Premises VM Parking

Reduce your energy and carbon footprint by shutting down VMs and hosts in your on-prem datacenter when not in use.

  • Preview Dates: through Q1 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.12.6
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly

Scaled Powered off VMs

Reduce impact to workloads by taking advantage of planned and expected downtime.

  • Preview Dates: Through January 2025
  • Turbonomic Minimum Version: 8.12.3
  • Pre-requisites: Contact PM for feature flag details and enablement.
  • Key contact: Contact the PM directly