IBM Turbonomic Reviews

Other than the core feature set, the planning tool has been invaluable to us.

VMTurbo Operations Manager has given myself and my staff more time to focus on other projects and tasks as well as improved overall performance of the virtual environment.

The UI could be improved.

We have been using this product for the past 11 months.

None at all, very smooth deployment and pretty easy to tune so far.

None at all.

None at all.

10/10, everyone has been very helpful and even my pre-sales guys are very easy to reach and check up on my from time to time.

10/10.

We evaluated vCOPS but decided we received way more functionality and automation with VMTurbo.

Very, straightforward setup by deploying the OVA template. You can slowly automate tasks once you’re comfortable with what its recommending.

We implemented in-house.

Within 6 months to 1 year… (helped avoid the immediate need to replace some older test storage).

We evaluated vCOPS but decided we received way more functionality and automation with VMTurbo.

Do the 30 day demo, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Assure Service Performance.

Right-sizing and right-balancing VMs and hosts used to be an ongoing, tedious, and time consuming effort. With Turbonomic, it does that work for me so I can focus my attention on other priorities.

Interface and navigation can be a challenge if you do not spend a lot of time with it. Creating policies is a bit intimidating and clunky, but that may be on me, because I have not spent much time in the deep end. To Turbonomic's credit, it does what I need it to do with minimal involvement or attention on my part. I am aware that its capabilities are much greater than what I am taking advantage of.

Since April 2013.

Deployment could not have be easier.

There were a couple issues with some upgrades, but support is excellent, and any issues were resolved by very skilled techs. Because of the nature of the appliance, there was no effect on my production environment.

No.

Excellent. I am noticing quality support seems to be getting harder to come by. Turbonomic's support quality is what all support organizations should aspire to achieve.

The previous "solution" was mostly just guess-work in evaluating vCenter metrics.

Initial setup was very straightforward. At least getting the appliance up and running and connected to vCenter. Fortunately, support was excellent and provided some hand-holding in the initial configuration, and it has been pretty much set-it-and-forget-it since.

In-house, with the help of support for configuration.

Not quantified.

VMware Operations Manager. Like most things VMware, it is too pricey.

The resource monitoring and usage reporting have helped keep the VMware clusters balanced and running smoothly. It also helps rightsizing over-provisioned virtual machines (VMs) for resource reclamation.

We are over 75% virtual, so the importance of our virtual environment stability and performance are vital. Turbonomic has been excellent in keeping us running smoothly.

Maybe a few more canned reports. In addition, the ability to create custom views to get to VMs that may require more babysitting for resource usage instead of having to drill down every time.

Five years.

None.

No problems.

None.

Excellent, they are always willing to help.

Excellent and ready to train.

vCOPs, for only 30 days. We thought Turbonomic was much easier to get to important, useful data.

Yes, it was a simple setup.

Over the phone assistance with internal staff. It was great. There were no problems.

It helps us keep resources balanced, available, and plan for future purchases.

It is fair.

vCOPS.

It works great. I definitely recommend it.

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 dashboards are amazing. They give me the ability to show our line of business how their application servers are performing. We also like the automation tool for managing our clusters so they are fully optimized.

The optimization has allowed us to focus our efforts on other areas of our virtual environment.

To be able to drill down into RDMs and get all of the information about each RDM attached to a server.

Four years.

We have never had any issues with deployment or upgrades.

None.

None.

Customer service and support are one of the tops in the industry.

One of the best I have ever dealt with.

None.

Easy and straightforward.

Through a vendor. They took the time to explain everything and show us how to get the ball rolling.

Not sure.

Great value for the money.

VMware Ops Manager.

The top level view of my overall infrastructure's health has been a great tool. Also the ability to view where we can benefit from additional purchases of equipment and such has been a big help.

Overall, Turbonomic has helped us be more efficient with the equipment we have.

I am not a giant fan of the new interface. I still use the older interface.

No.

None at all.

No.

10/10

10/10

No. We researched several solutions and in the end chose VMTurbo, now Turbonomic.

Initial install was extremely simple.

In-house.

Very fair for what you get.

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.

Planning a projection and right sizing capabilities

Used it during a ESX host refresh project to calculate how many hosts we would need to accommodate our growing production environment over the next 2 years. We reduced from 20 ESX hosts to 8 large hosts saving on VMware licensing costs as well as server hardware maintenance

Reports could be more versatile.

Since Dec 2016

No

No

No

Fantastic! 10/10. Engineers are responsive and very knowledgeable

No

Straightforward

Through our Business Partners. They learnt as they went but did a good job overall

N/A

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Great product and we use it extensively, from setting up VMturbo to load balance our VM's across a cluster, implementing right sizing recommendations, policy rules, memory/storage and CPU trends and plans for future projections in order to determine how we can reduce our hardware and licensing footprints.