IBM Turbonomic Reviews

Smart Analytics to determine environment efficiency.

Helped to “right size” productions server environment. We now can do more with less.

Dashboard view could be improved.

3 years.

No issues with deployment.

Had 1 issue during a service pack that required me to redeploy and lose all previous history.

No issues with scalability.

On a scale of 1-10 I would say 8.

On a scale of 1-10 I would say 8.

VCOPS by vmware. Switched because Vmturbo was able to give us the reporting, planning, and migrations more easily and at a huge savings.

The initial setup was straightforward. You deploy an appliance, give it the normal basic configs (IP, Subnet, Name) then wait a few hours and you start having data to act on.

In-house.

ROI was 3 months. Could have been less if we would have acted on the recommendations earlier.

VCOPS, Veeam, Solarwinds.

Test the product give it a few days try it. You will see that it is well worth the investment.

Turbonomic provides insight and recommendations into our Azure cloud configurations designed to allow optimum efficiency and cost. By analyzing the load on demand, the product can sense when more resources are needed as well as when resources are being wasted. 

In the first month, we ran this as a POC. It saved us over 5k a month in costs by implementing its recommendations. The product continues to save us money but constantly updating its pricing files from Azure with current promotions and regional costs.

Its ability to scale up and down on demand allows for maximum cost efficiency. By dynamically analyzing our loads, the product can sense if resources need to be adjusted. It can also tell if another configuration of the same power would be cheaper in another region. 

• More Azure features are needed. They started with AWS and are now ramping up Azure features. 
• We would like to see more visibility into reserved instances in Azure.

Yes, Azure Advisor. It did not do a good job as regards memory utilization but concentrated more on processor consumption.

Make sure you do a POC first so you can see the benefit this product will bring.

Wonderful account team and support. Training is exceptionally thorough. 

• Automating migrations and implementing storage recommendations
• Reporting
• Planning tool

It has increased the utilization of our hosts without sacrificing performance. We can run more VMs over a longer period of time without needing to purchase additional hardware. The Plan tool is great as you can create a plan and save it for the future. It allows you to configure the plan however you need it to determine what is needed. For example, I use the Plan tool for capacity planning throughout the year, where it used to be a manual process. I now have plans that I can run and within minutes; the report will let me know what we need and where.

I no longer need to keep a watchful eye on the environment. Turbonomic provides assured performance. Anything that we don't yet have automated, it will make a recommendation to improve the performance of that particular server.

There is a lot of information and to get a plan or report correct is a little trial and error. Once you get used to the interface and how it works, it does get easier.

For about four years

None. It's very easy to implement. Deploy the OVA, connect to your environment(s), configure your custom settings particular to your company, and your done.

I've never encountered issues with stability. We did need to increase the memory on the appliance because we have a very large environment.

None.

Their customer service is second to none. Any time I've had to contact support, they've answered it immediately and correctly.

Excellent!

At a previous place of employment we used vFoglight which was just a terrible product. Turbonomic doesn't even compare because it doesn't monitor your environment and send alerts. It prevents alerts from ever happening.

Very straightforward.

I implemented it myself.

It was within 12 months of deployment. It would have been sooner had we been able to enable all recommendations.

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We love the custom dashboards. We use them on the TV above our desks and it helps us keep an eye on the environment.

We no longer have to worry about our hosts being over/under provisioned. Turbonomic just evaluates the VMs and moves them for us. It's one less thing that we have to worry about.

Continued development for Hyper-V and additional storage vendor integration too.

We have had the solution for about a year.

We didn't have any issues with deployment.

We did see a few issues on a previous version with reporting. However, their support team was great and had a solution from the developers quickly.

We have not had any issues with scalability.

Customer service has been excellent. We did a very lengthy PoC and they were always willing to answer questions quickly and to offer up ideas about how to tackle issues in our environment.

Technical support has also been excellent. Any time we have a question or concern, we always get a quick and thorough response. We don't dread calling for help like with other solutions we have.

We didn't have a previous solution in place.

The install was very straightforward. I don't think it took more than an hour to implement.

The implementation was in-house.

I don't have numbers at this time for ROI, but I do know that we have been able to utilize our hosts more efficiently, and that's huge.

The solution was well worth the cost for us. It allows our admins to function on the other pieces of our environment.

We didn't evaluate any other options.

If you want to keep a detailed eye on your environment, and also pass off some of the administration to automation, Turbonomic is a great reliable platform for you.

Originally we looked at Turbonomic as a replacement for our existing virtual management tool as it offered us a real-time view of our environment, which is something we never had before. But 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.

The VM rightsizing tools and the intelligent placing of workloads have helped us to not only streamline what we have but, in conjunction with the sizing tools, has allowed us to look at future scenarios and potentially reduce our spend on physical kit in the DC.

The old interface was not the clearest UI in some areas, and could be quite intimidating when first using the tool. Subsequent releases have had the option of an updated UI which is not only much cleaner in its look but is also much more intuitive in its operation.

We have been a customer for over two and a half years now.

None, deployment was extremely quick and simple, well within the time quoted on the documentation.

None, we have rarely rebooted or had to spend any time on the appliances or the tool. Apart from upgrades, it's been running constantly since the initial install.

No, but our environment has been pretty stable for the past 18 months.

Very good, the issues we have had were dealt with in a timely fashion.

Very good. Feedback and support were both very good.

We used another tool to give us insights into our VM environment but due to the way it gathered data it was always at least 24 hours out of date. Turbonomic gave us the ability to look at near real-time data coming directly from out VMware environment.

Initial setup was very straightforward with very simple steps to follow.

All implementation was done in-house with no initial input from Turbonomic.

The tool has demonstrated that considerable savings could be had by reducing the amount of physical hardware and, therefore, licenses that are needed.

We felt the pricing was very fair for the product. It is in no way prohibitive for larger deployments, unlike other similar product on the market.

We looked at numerous solutions including SCOM, Veeam, and custom solutions.

The ability to connect to many different environments along with the integration with partner systems make this an essential tool in our IS VM management strategy.

The ability to monitor and automate both the right-sizing of VMs as well as to automate the vMotion of VMs across ESXi hosts to insure that all resources are being utilized at peak efficiency.

We no longer have to continuously monitor our virtual environment through multiple interfaces (WhatsUp Gold, Veeam ONE, vSphere, etc.) to discover issues impairing performance. We now receive three separate reports every morning, one showing any actions that Turbonomic attempted to make which failed that lets us know what we need to look at; one showing recommended actions which we have designated within Turbonomic to be manually performed; and one showing all datastore utilization over 85%. All from a single product and all visible from a single pane of glass. With the capacity planning feature, it allows us to accurately determine the proper sizing for our replacement hosts while projecting for a rate of growth specified by us.

Mostly the dashboard. While the product is fairly intuitive and easy to use once you learn it, it can be quite daunting until you have undergone a bit of training. With the newest version, the dashboard has gotten even more "intimidating", at least to me.

Approximately one year.

Deployment was extremely easy and straightforward. When setting up custom automation rules, a member of Turbonomic's support team initiated a WebEx and reviewed all of the rules looking for any errors as well as suggesting some additional custom rules based on how we wanted Turbonomic to operate. That's one of the great things about Turbonomic, it is almost endlessly customizable so you can configure it to work in your environment as opposed having to tailor your environment to work with the tool.

No issues at all.

None.

The customer service of Turbonomic has been excellent.

Technical support have been very good.

We previously used a combination of Veeam ONE and WhatsUp Gold to monitor our virtual environment. We switched due to Turbonomic's automation ability. Its ability to monitor and manage practically all virtualization technologies (Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenServer, and with the release of version 5.9, most public cloud platforms as well), and the ability to see everything from a single pane of glass.

Initial setup was pretty straightforward.

Implementation was performed through an in-house team with Turbonomic staff available for WebEx for assistance.

In precise dollar amounts, unknown. Having said that, Turbonomic has freed up our staff to devote more time to project implementation and expansion, as opposed to manually monitoring our environment.

Contact the Turbonomic sales team, explain your needs and what you're looking to monitor. They will get a pre-sales SE on the phone and together work up a very accurate quote.

We didn't evaluate other options. We were already using other monitoring tools and switched from them to Turbonomic.

Better vMotions decisions than DRS.

Showed us how to merge clusters to increase density.

Waiting for the HTML5 GUI since flash has refresh issues.

2 years.

No.

No.

No.

Perfect. Attention to details on every open ticket.

Top notch effort put into each support request.

Painless.

Better algo (looks at more metrics) than VMware's DRS.

We utilize the Turbonomics product to increase our VM density on our VDI clusters.

This product has extended the life of our HW and allowed us to get more utilization out of the existing HW before needing to add hosts to the cluster.

Would like some better canned reports allowing for average utilization of VMs in the environment during a defined range of hours.

2 years.

No.

Some minor issues once in a while with versions - remediated quickly with an update.

No.

Fantastic - any time we've had a problem or needed to get a specific set of information out of the tool, they've helped.

10 out of 10

No.

Both, you can do a lot with it out of the box, but you can also get quite advanced with managing the environment.

In House.