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Status Delivered
Workspace Watson Studio
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 14, 2020

Allow Admin to set limit on "Reserve CPU cores" UI

Currently Watson Studio Local users can setup a runtime environment and define resources (CPU, Memory, GPU) as much as they want. This could affecting system performance if available CPU and RAM on the servers become over-committed.

For that reason we are strongly request functionality to allow admin to set the limit on the runtime environment setting.

Needed by Date Apr 30, 2020
  • Guest
    May 26, 2021

    specify the maximum amount of memory and vCPU you want a specific service to use on the Cloud Pak for Data. Details - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/3.5.0?topic=platform-managing#platform_management__set-quotas

  • Guest
    Apr 15, 2020

    Can we have a hotFix rolled out for the proposed idea ASAP as our cluster can go down any moment as still users can choose they desire requested CPU's to the maximum limit

  • Guest
    Apr 14, 2020

    Thanks Hatif for opening AHA request.

    I would like to see this feature rollout to watson as soon as possible. I vote for this idea. Thanks again.