IBM Turbonomic Reviews

The automation piece is one of the most valuable features. It has allowed us to focus less on optimizing VM workloads. Custom dashboard has also been helpful with upper-level management.

Turbonomics is DRS on steroids. Our clusters have been perfectly balanced.

VM level granularity on some of the automation actions such as adding memory/CPU. That would allow an admin to schedule the exact time for the specific action for any given VM.

We have had this solution running since mid 2016.

No.

No.

No.

Customer service is fantastic.

Five stars.

Nothing else in the market can compare.

Initial setup was very simple. Deploy a simple OVA, give it an IP and sufficient rights, and voila.

We implemented in-house.

TBD.

Not sure.

N/A

I like the dashboard. I don't have to search around or create reports for issues or items I should be looking at it. It all just comes to the front.

It continually gives me a solid look at my virtualization environment. It gives me a second set of eyes on our VMs.

The UI is a little dated. I'm not a huge fan of the fact it runs on flash. Something HTML5 based would be nice.

About one year.

A little. We run AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor by Nutanix) as our hypervisor, and it took a little tweaking to get it to recognize everything. However, support was great, and we quickly figured it out.

None.

None.

Support has been great, both technical and sales.

Tech support has been great.

No, we did not. Previously, on vSphere, we just used what we could get out of vCenter.

Straightforward. It was just a virtual appliance.

It was just in-house combined with support from sales/tech support.

We haven't calculated it, but I can tell you that it's something we've relied on and must have saved us money, if only in time not having to go look for the information this tool provides.

It was reasonable. Also, they've been very forgiving on the trail end of things, as we only bought licensing for our "new" infrastructure, but monitored the whole (old and new) throughout our transition.

None.

For our organization, the key feature/benefit is allowing us to better utilize available resources. Prior to Turbonomic, rightsizing a VM could be tricky. Often the software vendors or application owners overestimated specs. This left us with wasted resources.

It allows us to rightsize VMs. While scaling down is critical, it is also important to scale up when needed. Turnbonomic monitors your environment and reacts automatically. If a VM needs more vCPU or memory, it gets it automatically. No need for manual intervention. When Turbonomic observes a downward trend and it appears that your VM no longer needs those resources, they can be taken away automatically.

We would like to see more integration with storage platforms. Our vendor of choice is not supported.

Six-plus months.

None.

None.

None.

They're great. We haven't had many issues, but when we do they have been very responsive.

Excellent.

Not at this level. We evaluated other solutions and chose Turbonomic.

We opted to have trainers come onsite. They first worked with us remotely to set it up.

We worked with the vendor's staff. They helped with training and setup. They are really top notch.

TBD.

Pricing is a bit high IMHO. Our hope is that this solution will delay some planned hardware purchases by allowing us to resize according to true demand.

SolarWinds and Veeam One.

The automation, of course.

This toolkit has some hooks that allows us to upsize VMs on the fly based on the user's current utilization.

Decrease the cost.

Three years.

Needed to upsize the DB shortly after deployment. Also, configuring for a highly secure environment required a lot of file tweaks in the Linux subsystem.

No.

No.

Excellent. They've always been quick to support any issues/queries we have.

Excellent.

DRS - Built-in tool didn't provide adequate migrations and no reporting about overall health.

Complex - highly secured environment. Had to change many of the system configs to make it more secure.

We implemented this ourselves.

Not tracked.

No.

The automation of balancing VMware cluster workloads. This feature insures that my VMware clusters are always running in an optimal state. The streamlined automation is what sold me on this product.

I like the reporting system along with the ability to export reports to PDF format.

HTML 5.

Six years.

None.

I did have a few issues but support quickly resolved the issue.

None.

Top-rated.

Top-rated.

None.

Straightforward and easy to setup.

In-house

This software enabled me to avoid buying more servers until I really need to buy more.

None.

Yes, VMware Operations Manager which was really more expensive with no automation, and their reporting is not what I wanted.

Great product!!

The planning is great to see how much capacity I have in my VMware infrastructure.

We allow it to do all our VMotion migrations, ensuring our systems are running at their peak performance.

I would like it to auto-update itself rather than me having to check upgrade then apply on a monthly basis.

We have used the solution about five years now.

No, installation was straightforward.

No, we've had no issues todate.

We've continued to expand our VMware environment and the application has scaled with it.

Excellent, about once a month my account team checks in with me and makes sure my needs are being met with the product.

Great.

No.

Was straightforward, we had no issues installing the appliance.

We implemented in-house with no issues.

At this time we have not evaluated that.

Reasonable with other products on the market.

Looked at VMware product but was not impressed, Turnonomic was easier to operate.

We continue to support this product and find value in what it does for us.

Automating VM moves.

Previously we had no automated VM moves, which meant some of our VM hosts would be overloaded and others would be under utilized.

Finding help can be difficult if needed. Most times we will just call Turbonomic rather than search through the user guides and forums for help on an issue. Better alerting features would be helpful as well.

Two years.

No issues with deployment. With upgrades, we have always had assistance from Turbonomic to make sure everything is smooth.

None.

None.

Excellent. My rep always stays in touch and keeps us in the loop when changes are coming.

Excellent. They seem to be very responsive to any issues that have come up. They stay engaged until there is a solution in place.

No previous solution.

I didn't handle the initial setup of this product. I inherited it. For upgrades they seem fairly straightforward, but we have always had Turbonomic assist in upgrades.

Not in initial implementation, but for upgrades we use Turbonomic support to help us and have great results.

Automated sizing and moves for VMs based on real-time usage statistics.

Capacity planning for purchasing new hardware.

It has freed up space on our VMware hosts to allow optimized utilization of our resources.

The only area of improvement that I can think of is re-sizing recommendations are not able to be based upon working hours of a day or typical load times. So you have a VM that gets pounded from 7am - 4pm, but then pretty much goes dormant. Turbonomic makes its recommendation over a 24-hour period, not during time windows you can specify. You do, however, have the option to restrict automated resizing actions within a certain window (so Turbonomic doesn't resize during peak times). I just wish there was a way to base resizing recommendations during a snapshot window instead of a 24-hour period.

Two years and just renewed for a third.

No issues at all, was pretty straightforward to get up and running. Plus the support team was nothing short of excellent!

No issues at all.

None.

10-plus. Everyone at Turbonomic we've worked with has been top-notch and extremely knowledgeable about their product.

10-plus, same as above!

No we did not. Found Turbonomic at a conference and was impressed with their solution and ran with it.

Straightforward, extremely user friendly.

In-house.

I don't have a dollar number handily available, but as mentioned before it has definitely freed up server resources, giving us space back on our hosts.

Reach out to the Turbonomic team directly and work with your local rep so that you can get the best solution/pricing available to you.

We didn't evaluate any other vendors.

If you're looking for a solution to give you a deeper dive into how your VM environment is being utilized and to provide some optimization; then you can't go wrong with Turbonomic!