IBM Turbonomic Reviews

Reporting, Dashboards & DRS.

Helped us right size a number of VMs and helped reduce CPU ready time.

Maybe a cleaner backend. HTML5?

Over 1 year.

No issues. Simple to deploy. The team helped set up the appliance and were quick to help with any custom requests.

No issues yet.

No.

Very good. Very quick response times.

Very good. Knowledgeable staff.

No.

It was fairly straightforward to set up and anything we could not figure out ourselves the team had a solution for us very quickly.

In house/directly with VMTurbo.

It is an expensive product so we have only licenced the critical hosts in production. Some of the features may not work if your VMware hosts are not licenced. Features such as DRS will not work unless you have a cluster licenced for DRS in VMware. Therefore the workload placement VMTurbo tries to carry out will not work as the VMs will not migrate.

Yes, vROPS.

Best feature is the ability to move my virtual machines around automatically to balance out loads on each of our hosts.

This keeps our hosts optimized at all times and helps us in predicting when a new host will be needed soon.

One issue I have is just not knowing how to get some information I believe is there. I have not found any detailed walkthrough of the software and all of its features. I could call and have someone walk me through it, but would rather do this on my own time.

3 years.

No issues with deployment.

No stability issues.

None.

Any time we have talked to tech support we have had no issues. Seem to get us the answer we are looking for quickly.

No previous solution.

We have really loved having VMTurbo. It keeps out workloads spread evenly across multiple hosts and has good analytics.

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.

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.

The most valuable feature for us is the feature which allows Forecasting. Forecasting allows you to forecast and simulate new environments so you can decide what to add to your environment and what won't work. Looking to add Cisco nodes, for example, I can add new hardware and test and predict how our investment will impact our performance.

The direct impact is that we decided to expand our platform and I needed specific numbers to see how a specific node would impact our environment, we were able to get specific reporting. That’s direct ROI. The feature that allows you to optimize and distribute your loads according to the balance of your “sweet point,” balancing your load against your compute is very valuable for decision making.

I think that the interface can use some modernizing and less abrupt transitions. There has already been a good attempt but need to dig deeper.

We have been using the solution for one year.

No, it was great.

No issues with stability.

They are very responsive.

They are great - very responsive.

We have tried other solution, VCOPS as well as Virtual Instruments. VMTurbo was unique – other products were not as complete a match.

Initial setup was straightforward.

Price is a little bit steep – if you have a targeted project, then its worth it, otherwise ongoing costs can be a little steep.

Understand the product and what it does, it falls into a little bit of a luxury tool, know how they approach the problem and you have to know your platform. This is not the kind of thing you buy off the shelf.

Automation and planning. Turbonomic's ability to automatically load balance my storage and hosts has saved a lot of time. Planning for a future VDI deployment has allowed us to eliminate the need to scramble for resources during the deploy.

It has balanced the load on the hosts during the day to eliminate bottlenecks.

The user interface has room for improvement, but it is well on its way with the new UI that is being developed.

We have had it for over two years now.

Deployment was easy. It was done over an hour long conference call. Had tangible data in place several hours after that.

Had one issue on an early release (first several months of owning Turbonomic), when Turbonomic made a suggestion to resize itself and it changed a few other settings upon a reboot. Since then, no issues.

No. Have yet to have a need to change the number of hosts in our environment. We have had to replace some older hosts per Turbonomic's suggestion.

Excellent. We talk to our account rep on a regular basis and he walks through our environment and offers other areas for automation as well as new features being added.

Excellent. For the very few issues we have had, they have been quick to respond and solve the issue.

We did not have a previous solution that monitored everything. It was all done manually via the vCenter Server. When we purchased Turbonomic (VMturbo at the time), vRealize Operations was just getting going and it was outrageous. Turbonomic offered everything we thought we needed, and even things we didn't know we needed, at a great price.

Very easy. Deploy an OVF template, some minor out-of-the-box configuration, and it is up and going.

We purchased direct, and implementation was done via a WebEx.

Hard to put an exact dollar amount on it, but it did eliminate the need for us to add an additional person in our department as it automated most of the work in our VMware environment.

Just license what you want to monitor. We have a DR environment which we chose not to monitor.

We checked out vROPs and a Veeam solution, but they just didn't cut it.

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.

The dashboards are fantastic. The Improve Overall Efficiency view is great in getting resources in check when the build out was over estimated.

Having Turbonomic as a resource is like having a few extra engineers dedicated to performance monitoring, getting that time back from diagnosing resource issues is a huge plus.

We wish Nimble was available as a storage provider.

We have been using Turbo for about three months.

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

None.

Customer service is exceptional, any minor issues we had were addressed as we would bring them up.

Technical support is very responsive and thorough. When initially using Turbo, technical replies would include not just recommended fixes, but also where to refer to in the documentation for the issue in question. Very helpful early on.

We were using SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. We switched because the features and ease of use were more accurate and responsive.

NA - I did not participate in the initial setup.

We used a vendor as well as Turbonomic support to get going initially.

The ROI is still to be measured, but the resources to be recouped are impressive so far.

I was not personally involved with the purchase, but I feel it was a wise decision.

We were using SolarWinds Virtualization Manager.