IBM Turbonomic Reviews

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 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.

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.

• Very easy installation.
• Reports back with recommendations and system health within hours of deployment.

Better than DRS to load balance VMs across hosts, allowing us to release 30% more computing resources.

Had issues trying to get Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts attached to Turbonomic. This required more effort as there are some changes to be made on WMI configurations. No way near as straightforward as VMware vSphere.

2 years +

VMware - just make sure your infrastructure allows the Turbonomic application to see all your vCenters.

Hyper-V - I tried to test Turbonomic on Hyper-V in a test environment. This was not at straightforward as attaching to a vCenter. It needs various Windows settings changed. Not sure if this has been fixed/made easier in new versions.

None.

None. We deployed the appliance two years ago and since then have added four more vCenters (200+ VMs) for it to manage and we have not had to change any settings to do this.

The support is very good. Very quick responses if you have a support issue.

By using the Green Circle community, you can get answers to real life questions about customised reports, etc.

Very good.

I used vFoglight previously, but this was mainly a reporting tool. Turbonomic manages your infrastructure for you and assists with future planning/provisioning.

Very simple to deploy the appliance, give it an IP address and then after logging in, attached it to your vCenters....simple!

In-house.

Reasonable costs based on a per socket license model.

vFoglight, Solarwinds Virtual Manager, Cibra.

Easier integration with Hyper-V hosts/clusters would be nice. Not sure if newer versions have been able to improve this.

Automatic Equilibrium using real-world metrics and dynamically balancing workloads while adding new applications into the environment.

It has allowed me to manage over 19 sites with one person after losing two supporting staff members without a negative impact on operations.

I would love more training and certification opportunities.

Over 2 years without issue.

Best deployment of an application I have seen yet. Import OVA, assign basic network resources and use an admin account to find balance in the datacenter.

The OVA provides great tools for backup and import but in operation I have not had a unit fail on me and reboots have resolved most of my operational issues.

None

Excellent. Very involved and positive experience with all members at Turbonomics!

Excellent. Super humble, very helpful.

I felt like a tourist talking to NASA engineers in terms of skill level.

Cost and recurring license costs did not make sense with other solutions when I POC'd solutions in the real-world. Everything else required more people, expertise, or money for less function.

Unit was up and running in 5 minutes. All I needed was basic networking information and admin accounts

In-house.

Compare it to other solutions and you will find that the equilibrium equation is not available with other solutions. I feel this tool is the equivalent of two engineers under me .

- Cluster Projections, Capacity and Planning

- Impact Summary

- VM Maintenance Automation

Getting a better understanding on host utilization, providing better planning on infrastructure upgrades.

vCenter integration. Would love to have the ability to manager the infrastructure within one window.

3-4 years

None.

None.

None.

On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest -> 10

On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest -> 10

No.

Straightforward.

In-house.

None.

Automation in the form of virtual machine migrations in VMware vCenter.

Automation, policies, and reports have made a lot of previously manual work now either more efficient or completely automated.

I would like to see the new HTML5 web interface released soon. In using the preview, it looks very promising.

Three years.

No issues.

We did have an issue certain build causing the database to fill up however technical support was very helpful in getting updated to a newer version to correct this issue.

No issues.

Excellent. All my interactions have been timely and efficient.

Excellent. All my interactions have been timely and efficient.

It was very straightforward. The OVA file was simply imported into vSphere and turned. Following that it was just a matter of a few simple networking configurations.

In-house.

I do not have access to specific figures however I do see a definite return in the form of administrator time.

None.

Turbonomic is very unique and lends many strengths to further augment my virtual infrastructure.