IBM Turbonomic Reviews

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.

• Load Balancing
• Resource reclamation

With Turbonomic we are using our hardware resources more efficiently.

Turbonomic needs to find how to have the appliance OS up to date. Per our security tool, it has missing patches.

A real central management console to manage all the instances from one place.

Three months.

No, if you use the VMturbo appliance, you can have the tool running in a couple of hours.

No.

No.

The customer service is very good. They fixed all our issues and they are always ready to help.

Very good.

No.

Easy to deploy.

In-house, with Turbonomic's assistance

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.

• Automatic placement of workload in multi-node VMware cluster.
• Recommend/perform memory and vCPU configuration to match work load.

Everyone's sizing guess is wrong.

Turbonomics resolves the issue with continuous workload placement and sizing recommendations/actions.

Licensing for clusters with few VMs (i.e. HA focus over consolidation focus).

One year.

No, the integration was cake.

No. Very stable.

No. We use if for seven hosts at two sites.

Excellent. We were able to evaluate and implement with full support.

High.

No. We just guessed and tried to use PerfMon and VMware performance and user feelings to size and place the workload. Bad.

Just install and hook into vCenter and then understand what it is saying.

We did initially work with pinning workloads between types of VMs but now let all swim in the same pool with a Turbonomic lifeguard.

In-house with input from application vendor.

Continuous as the workload placement is automatic as things change.

There was no other solution that actually allowed the execution of its recommendations.

The sophistication of the algorithm is sufficient to not cause imbalance by the execution of balancing. Totally sweet.

It is most applicable with clusters that host large numbers of VMs.

VMware vRealize Operations was reviewed but did not sufficiently automate the process and did not seem to be as sophisticated in its analysis.

This has been a set-it-and-forget-it solution that does a great job but is behind the scenes.

I really like the capacity dashboard, that allows us to plan our upcoming projects to ensure we have enough resources to support the project.

Our VMWare servers run a lot smoother with this product as it continues to look at resources and ensures our servers are on the best host at that point in time.

I think the web interface could be better, I know they are working on a new one so I'm looking forward to seeing the final product when its released.

We have been using this product for about 4 years now and I continue to promote the use of this tool to my peers.

No, deployment was very straight forward and easy to do, if we had an issue support was right there for us.

No.

No.

Customer support has been excellent, as I encounter an issue support is responding in a very timely manner and has been very easy to work with to solve the issue.

We implemented ourselves with remote support from Turbonomic.

We will continue to use the product because it works and is easy to monitor and train others in my team to use.

Turbonomic's realtime environmental monitoring and aggregated dashboard have been instrumental in expansion decision making for our infrastructure.

Based off it's metrics, we were not only able to expand our storage environment but fine tune our environment further in order to achieve maximum performance.

Performance tuning and storage replacement.

Going on 2 years now.

Super easy to deploy, was up and running in 20 minutes.

Stability has never been an issue with Turbonomic.

Additional licensing purchases were the only issues for scalability.

Customer service has been amazing as well as their community base.

I would rate them a 10/10.

Yes, there were a few different solutions in place before Turbonomic. After implementation of Turbonomic the switch was easy as it had every metric and report I needed from a director's standpoint and didn't need to jump systems to make it work.

It was very straightforward. It's own ISO made it super simple.

In-house deployment was our method.

Today we have found the forecasting of the environment and optimization the most beneficial. 

The automation of VMotion allows us to avoid over utilized memory and CPU on our Hosts.  Turbonomic also addresses the issue of I/O on our network something that has been a concern at times in the past.

The graphical interface could be better.

We began looking at this solution about a year ago and after Proof of Concept finally implemented a few months back.

Yes

The automated moving of VM's to hosts that provide the best performance is awesome along with the right-sizing of the VM automatically save a tremendous amount of time.

Our CPU ready used to be off the charts, after just a day or two, Turbonomic had it all fixed and users were very happy.

Automatic upgrades that are hands off would be great, however the upgrades are pretty easy and take only a few minutes.

5+ years

Deployment is dead simple, point it to vCenter, give it credentials and you're done.

None, very stable product.

Nope.

10/10. Anytime you call for support, they know exactly what the issue is.

Great - 10/10

Dead simple.

I did it by myself

The product paid for itself within 30 days.

Speak with a rep.

No.

If you don't at least try it, you'll never know how much better things could be.