IBM Turbonomic Reviews

After configuring the automation it has kept the VMware clusters balanced.

Performance of all hosts have improved.

The GUI is not always user friendly and some settings are not where you would expect.

Approximately three years.

I had full support from the Turbonomics group. They assisted with the install and configuration. Great company to work with.

It's been a very stable product.

It easily handles the environment.

Customer service has always been exceptional.

Technical support has been very quick to respond and very knowledgeable.

No, this was our first monitoring/management tool for the virtualized environment.

Pretty straightforward.

We were assisted by a vendor team; very knowledgeable.

That's difficult to comment on. I know its a very valuable product to us, but can't put a dollar value to that.

It's not the cheapest but it's a very good product for the cost.

Yes we looked at SolarWinds.

They are a great company to work with and have delivered a great product.

The Capacity Planner was invaluable when doing a server consolidation / host migration project. On a daily basis, I tend to use the "To Do List" in order to keep my systems efficient.

I'm able to work in a more proactive manner and now have less issues to deal with. I'm able to avoid major problems.

I'd like to see the creation of custom dashboards become a little more streamlined. I love the concept, but it's the thing I have struggled with the most thus far. I am trying to get dashboards created for application groups, only giving them exposure to certain elements. I can't get as granular as I would like. It also takes several steps in quite a few screens to get things going.

About 10 months.

Deployment and training were both EXCELLENT.

The system has been stable since day one.

Every support engineer I have worked with has been friendly, professional and knowledgeable.

10 of 10

It was very straightforward - deploy the appliance, add my vCenter Servers and wait for data to populate. Doesn't get much easier than that.

I implemented the appliance myself with the help of VMTurbo

The pricing is competitive and the licensing model is flexible. We knew that we would be significantly reducing our host count over the six months following implementation. There were license options available for this exact type of scenario

Dell Foglight and SolarWinds.

We purchased this product because it was the best that we evaluated. I'm very happy with our choice.

Reporting has added tendentious value.

Being able to easily drill-down to find root issues.

I'd like to see the GUI in HTML5 or something similar. I don't like using Adobe Flash.

A year and a half.

Nothing major, only license errors after moving from the product demo phase to the licensed version, which as an easy fix - it did not affect the functionality of the product, just annoying errors.

Nothing. I've rebooted the server once and it turned out to not be a server issue.

No, albeit I haven't scaled out much, there hasn't been any issues with adding some nodes here and there.

Top notch. They have really patient and willing to help in anyway they can. The account teams are responsive and always willing to get you to the right person to help with any issues, big or small.

They're friendly and really know the product inside and out - as well as the technologies that work with the product.

At my current company we only had the free stuff from VMware, but other products were used at previous companies like vCOPS. Pricing and user friendlies. Not feeling like a small fish in a big pond. And the product did exactly what I wanted.

Very simply and fast setup. Customizing can feel daunting at first.

Implemented with Turbonomic.

If you're on a strict budget and the numbers on the quote aren't far-off, let them work with you. I've also had sizable discounts when returning for more licensing and modules.

Foglight and vROps. Each had their strengths, but overall what suited my company's needs best was Turbonomic.

Shopping around is important and depending on what gaps you're trying to fill one product may be better than the other.

The reporting and capacity planning features are the most valuable for me.

The reporting features easily allows me to determine where we are having deficiencies in our virtual environment.

Our Oracle database servers requires a large amount of resources within the virtual server. Turbonomic always thinks these servers are over-provisioned and would move resources if they were configured auto mode. The performance of the Oracle database servers would not optimally run if Turbonomic made the changes it thinks necessary.

About 2 years at this point.

The support we receive from the Turbonomic's staff made the installation a breeze.

Customer Service has been very good and our rep is always reaching out to see how they can make our experience even better.

Technical Support has been good but we have not had the need to use it very often,

Very straightforward.

We implemented directly with Turbonomic and it was one of the easiest implementation we have had.

• Visibility: Prior to using Turbonomic, we had absolutely no insight into which resources our applications were utilizing.
• Automation: I have a small number of IT staff and the automation provides a number of huge benefits. The operational tasks are handled by Turbonomic which dramatically reduces the burden on my team, freeing up their time to concentrate on improving the IT infrastructure as opposed to reactive ‘fire-fighting’. The VMs are correctly spec’d to the workload’s demands (with no user impact and performance degradation) circumventing any chances of human error.
• Plans: We were able to visibly see the future deployments and the impact that it would have on the existing environment.

Due to the VMs being correctly sized, we had an instant increase in the resources and saw an immediate CapEx saving, as we were in the process of purchasing new equipment.

The current Flash user interface is sometimes slow, but the new HTML5 interface is already in development.

I have used this solution for two years.

There were no stability issues.

There were no scal issues.

The setup was very easy. Deployed the OVA, assigned a static IP and linked it to our hypervisors. Saw recommendations to improve our infrastructure within minutes.

The pricing and licensing are fair.

We evaluated CloudPhysics. We experienced issues due to the fact that it is a Cloud SaaS solution and faced bandwidth challenges, which resulted in the product being unusable.

Immediate ROI was seen due to the reduced IT infrastructure CapEx.

I highly recommend deploying Turbonomic prior to purchasing any hardware.

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.

Easy to use central management of resources and report capabilities.

Ongoing process. Overview, scaleability and resource usage.

Better hardware utilization and point VM and apps on demand to better working places.

We are in implementation phase.

No.

No.

No.

Eight out of 10.

Not necessary so far.

No.

Ongoing.

In-house.

No comment.

No comment.

No.

Not yet.