IBM Turbonomic vs VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth comparison

IBM and Broadcom are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. IBM is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.1, while Broadcom is ranked #24 with an average rating of 7.0. IBM holds a 4.0% mindshare in CM, compared to Broadcom’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

IBM Turbonomic

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

IBM Turbonomic and VMware Tanzu CloudHealth are leading products competing in the cloud resource management category. Based on the features provided, IBM Turbonomic seems to have the upper hand in automation and resource management efficiency, whereas VMware Tanzu CloudHealth excels in multi-cloud management and integration.

Features: IBM Turbonomic automates workload optimization with Smart Analytics, Automation, and VM Rightsizing Recommendations, which offer significant resource management and cost-saving benefits. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth provides excellent multi-cloud management and offers functionalities like cloud cost management, strong integration with VMWare products, and resource utilization insights.

Room for Improvement: IBM Turbonomic users seek enhancements in dashboard navigation, report customization, and third-party tool integration. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth could improve server-level visibility and expand beyond cost management to include detailed performance monitoring, as well as better integration with enterprise tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Turbonomic is favored for on-premises and hybrid cloud deployments, offering responsive and knowledgeable technical support. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is preferred for public cloud environments and also receives positive reviews for customer service, though some users desire faster response times. Both solutions ensure strong user support post-deployment.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Turbonomic offers a flexible and competitively priced licensing model, providing ROI within a year due to reduced hardware needs and increased efficiencies. In contrast, VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth adopts a subscription-based model, initially perceived as costly, but ultimately delivers significant cost savings in multi-cloud management, offering meaningful ROI through effective resource utilization.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Turbonomic

Ranking in Cloud Management

4th

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

205

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (3rd), Virtualization Management Tools (4th), IT Financial Management (1st), IT Operations Analytics (5th), Cloud Analytics (1st), AIOps (11th)

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth

Ranking in Cloud Management

24th

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

6th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 4.0%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 1.8%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM Turbonomic	4.0%
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth	1.8%
Other	94.2%

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reviewer1446966

Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution reduced our operational expenditures and is able to identify points before we even noticed them

The management interface seems to be designed for high-resolution screens. Somebody with a smaller-resolution screen might not like the web interface. I run a 4K monitor on it, so everything fits on the screen. With a lower resolution like 1080, you need to scroll a lot. Everything is in smaller windows. It doesn't seem to be designed for smaller screens. When I change the resolution to 1080, I only see half of what I would on my big 4K monitor. It would be annoying to have to scroll to see the flow chart. They have a flow chart that goes top to bottom like a tree. On a lower resolution, it might be nice if that scrolls horizontally because it's long, narrow, and tall. It's only three icons wide, but it's 15 icons tall. I think it would be helpful to have the ability to change that for a smaller screen and customize the widget.

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Cláudio Braga

AI Software Developer Engineer at IBM

Improves cloud cost control and accountability but could explore further enhancements

The most valuable features of this solution include the drive for accountability because we can allocate cloud costs back to specific business units or teams through showback and chargeback. Additionally, reduced waste is achieved because we can identify unused or underutilized resources and receive recommendations for resizing instances. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers. All of this in just one dashboard is very helpful to improve agility and resolve issues, especially for the workloads. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth helps manage compliance risks by preventing threats, stopping attacks, detecting threats, and securing workloads or endpoints where customers will be using the endpoints. The positive impact on my organization is substantial because we can reduce waste, optimize expenses, drive accountability, and secure the budget from unnecessary cloud costs.

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Pros

"The notifications saying, "This is a corrective action," even though some of them can be automated, are always welcome to see. They summarize your entire infrastructure and how you can better utilize it. That is the biggest feature."

"It became obvious to us that there was a lot more being offered in the product that we could leverage to ensure our VMware environment was running efficiently."

"We can manage multiple environments using a single pane of glass, which is something that I really like."

"Turbonomic can show us if we're not using some of our storage volumes efficiently in AWS. For example, if we've over-provisioned one of our virtual machines to have dedicated IOPs that it doesn't need, Turbonomic will detect that and tell us."

"I like Turbonomic's automation and AI machine learning features. It shows you what it can do, but it can also act on recommendations automatically. Integration with an APM system makes the AI/ML features truly effective. Understanding what the application is doing and the trends of application behavior can help you make real-world decisions and act on that information."

"The system automatically sizes and moves resources based on the needs of the applications."

"The proactive monitoring of all our open enrollment applications has improved our organization. We have used it to size applications that we are moving to the cloud. Therefore, when we move them out there, we have them appropriately sized. We use it for reporting to current application owners, showing them where they are wasting money. There are easy things to find for an application, e.g., they decommissioned the server, but they never took care of the storage. Without a tool like this, that storage would just sit there forever, with us getting billed for it."

"We've saved hundreds of hours. Most of the time those hours would have to be after hours as well, which are more valuable to me as that's my personal time."

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"The solution is good for cloud cost management."

"The product is easy to use in terms of monitoring all the environments. It works for multiple clouds."

"The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards."

"We are able to create an internal price of the product that we can then sell to clients. We get the cost plan at a good discount and then resell it with a mark up to our enterprise-level clients. This flexibility in pricing is one of the solution's best features."

"This solution is fast and very easy to understand, even if you are not a technician."

"VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's unified dashboard helps streamline cloud management practices by unifying everything needed in one dashboard, such as metrics, instance workings, machines, and servers."

"The most valuable thing I have found is the cost saving recommendations"

"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations."

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Cons

"There are a few things that we did notice. It does kind of seem to run away from itself a little bit. It does seem to have a mind of its own sometimes. It goes out there and just kind of goes crazy. There needs to be something that kind of throttles things back a little bit. I have personally seen where we've been working on things, then pulled servers out of the VMware cluster and found that Turbonomic was still trying to ship resources to and from that node. So, there has to be some kind of throttling or ability for it to not be so buggy in that area. Because we've pulled nodes out of a cluster into maintenance mode, then brought it back up, and it tried to put workloads on that outside of a cluster. There may be something that is available for this, but it seems very kludgy to me."

"Before IBM bought it, the support was fantastic. After IBM bought it, the support became very disappointing."

"Remove the need for special in-house knowledge and development."

"It can be more agnostic in terms of the solutions that it provides. It can include some other cost-saving methods for the public cloud and SaaS applications as well."

"The management interface seems to be designed for high-resolution screens. Somebody with a smaller-resolution screen might not like the web interface. I run a 4K monitor on it, so everything fits on the screen. With a lower resolution like 1080, you need to scroll a lot. Everything is in smaller windows. It doesn't seem to be designed for smaller screens."

"Enhanced executive reporting standard with the tool beyond the reports that can be created today. Something that can easily be used with upper management on a monthly or quarterly basis to show the impact to our environment."

"They could add a few more reports. They could also be a bit more granular. While they have reports, sometimes it is hard to figure out what you are looking for just by looking at the date."

"The issue for us with the automation is we are considering starting to do the hot adds, but there are some problems with Windows Server 2019 and hot adds. It is a little buggy. So, if we turn that on with a cluster that has a lot of Windows 2019 Servers, then we would see a blue screen along with a lot of applications as well. Depending on what you are adding, cores or memory, it doesn't necessarily even take advantage of that at that moment. A reboot may be required, and we can't do that until later. So, that decreases the benefit of the real-time. For us, there is a lot of risk with real-time."

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"The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones."

"I would like to see better integration from CloudHealth to create easier setup and implementation."

"If you are working with the OS you need help and other connectors to get more information."

"They should provide information or tools to tune the cloud resources according to the environment size."

"The export features regarding CSV files and specifically around identifying savings plans have room for improvement, as well as the drill-down features for reservation utilization."

"CloudHealth needs to start building out Turbonomics-types of features that help the customers who are using CloudHealth really understand everything down to the server level, the virtual machine level."

"It would be helpful to have a mobile version or a tablet version, especially for people who are outside of the office."

"Some companies may not be capable of affording this product."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced."

"In the last year, Turbonomic has reduced our cloud costs by $94,000."

"It's worth the time and money investment if you can afford it."

"I know there have been some issues with the billing, when the numbers were first proposed, as to how much we would save. There was a huge miscommunication on our part. Turbonomic was led to believe that we could optimize our AWS footprint, because we didn't know we couldn't. So, we were promised savings of $750,000. Then, when we came to implement Turbonomic, the developers in AWS said, "Absolutely not. You're not putting that in our environment. We can't scale down anything because they coded it." Our AWS environment is a legacy environment. It has all these old applications, where all the developers who have made it are no longer with the company. Those applications generate a ton of money for us. So, if one breaks, we are really in trouble and they didn't want to have to deal with an environment that was changing and couldn't be supported. That number went from $750,000 to about $450,000. However, that wasn't Turbonomic's fault."

"What I can advise is to trial the product, taking advantage of the Turbonomic pre-sales implemention support and kickstart training."

"IBM Turbonomic is an investment that we believe will deliver positive returns."

"If you're a super-small business, it may be a little bit pricey for you... But in large, enterprise companies where money is, maybe, less of an issue, Turbonomic is not that expensive. I can't imagine why any big company would not buy it, for what it does."

"I don't know the current prices, but I like how the licensing is based on the number of instances instead of sockets, clusters, or cores. We have some VMs that are so heavy I can only fit four on one server. It's not cost-effective if we have to pay more for those. When I move around a VM SQL box with 30 cores and a half-terabyte of RAM, I'm not paying for an entire socket and cores where people assume you have at least 10 or 20 VMs on that socket for that pricing."

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"I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."

"The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."

"There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."

"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."

"The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Performing Arts

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	41
Midsize Enterprise	57
Large Enterprise	147

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?

It offers different scenarios. It provides more capabilities than many other tools available. Typically, its price is set as a percentage of the consumption of some of our customers' services. The ...

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What needs improvement with Turbonomic?

The implementation could be enhanced.

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What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?

We use IBM Turbonomic to automate our cloud operations, including monitoring, consolidating dashboards, and reporting. This helps us get a consolidated view of all customer spending into a single d...

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What needs improvement with CloudHealth?

I do not see any flaws in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. Everything is fine for me. The performance is acceptable, and the layout is acceptable. It is very user-friendly, and there is nothing that needs...

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What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?

This product was used for financial management in my company because I was working for a FinTech. VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's use case is related to financial control and resource governance across ...

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What advice do you have for others considering CloudHealth?

VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth's analytics in understanding cloud usage trends and expense forecasts is normally more for marketing staff and analyzing production servers in my case, so I am not very exp...

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Also Known As

Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager

Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, CloudHealth

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Overview

IBM Turbonomic enhances IT efficiency with automation, capacity planning, and reporting features, enabling organizations to optimize resource utilization and improve performance through advanced workload management and scenario analysis.

IBM Turbonomic equips organizations with robust capabilities for dynamic resource allocation and informed decision-making. Its planning module provides scenario analysis, right-sizing recommendations, and a customizable dashboard for tailored insights. Automation features improve workload placements and resource efficiency, while forecasting capabilities enhance performance. Simulation of environments helps in decision-making, leading to significant savings in cloud and hardware management. There is a need for a more intuitive interface, enhanced navigation, and improved customization in reporting with integration potential with third-party applications. Transition to the HTML5 interface and stronger training resources are among anticipated improvements.

What are the key features of IBM Turbonomic?

Automation: Automates workload placement and dynamic resource allocation to boost efficiency.
Capacity Planning: Provides scenario analysis and right-sizing for optimal resource use.
Customizable Dashboard: Offers tailored insights for organization needs.
Forecasting: Enhances decision-making through resource-use predictions.
Simulation Capabilities: Aids in assessing savings and performance gains.

What benefits and ROI should be evaluated?

Cost Optimization: Reduces spending on cloud and hardware resources.
Enhanced Performance: Promotes consistent application performance and resource efficiency.
Improved Decision-Making: Supports informed choices with scenario simulation.
Flexibility and Scalability: Assists with workload migrations and resource management across environments.

IBMTurbonomic is implemented across industries such as cloud management and virtualization, helping organizations balance clusters, optimize virtual machine performance, and manage Azure configurations. In resource-monitored environments like VMware and XenServer, its features facilitate load balancing, VM rightsizing, and automation shutoffs. Industries can rely on its insights for cost-saving measures, ensuring efficient resource allocation for hybrid and cloud environments.

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VMware Tanzu CloudHealth, formerly known as VMware Aria Cost Powered by CloudHealth, is a specialized cloud management platform tailored for Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization. It offers comprehensive visibility into cloud spending across various providers, enabling users to identify areas for optimization and make informed resource allocation decisions. With features like reserved instance management, resource rightsizing, and automated cost governance policies, it facilitates financial management for optimal cost efficiency. Beyond cost optimization, Tanzu CloudHealth enhances cloud operations through workload optimization and governance automation, catering to multi-cloud environments encompassing public, private, and hybrid clouds. Its primary focus remains on enabling organizations to effectively manage and reduce cloud expenditures while supporting operations across diverse cloud platforms.

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Sample Customers

IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.

Pinterest, Dow Jones, RhythmOne, Ziff Davis, Acquia, Mentor Graphics, Lookout, Veracode, SwiftKey, Amtrak, Shi, Imgur, SumoLogic, NewsUK, Cloudera, Canvas

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