IBM Turbonomic Reviews

Workload Placement and Capacity Planning.

We have used Turbonomic to help correct performance issues with applications in our business.

A more interactive dashboard with integrated features.

Two years.

No issues with deployment or upgrades.

No stability issues at all.

None.

Customer service is excellent.

Excellent.

We used vCOPS. Turbonomic is a more user friendly and informative product.

Setup was very straightforward and tons easier than the other products we have used in the past.

In-house team only.

We have saved money on licensing and availability of our applications.

This will help you realize where your money is spent.

vCOPS.

I would definitely recommend evaluating this product before making a purchase. It was well worth the purchase.

Load balancing, reporting, dashboards, and capacity planning.

We no longer have to worry about cluster management, even in an environment with multiple hypervisor vendors.

Not quite used to the new UI.

Four years.

None. And support has assisted over the years, as our infrastructure has grown and evolved from one hypervisor vendor to another.

None.

None.

Nine out of 10 (because no one is perfect).

Nine out of 10 (because no one is perfect).

Nagios.

Simple.

Me, myself, and I.

It is hard to count the amount of time it has saved over the years.

Simple per processor, typical of a hypervisor based product.

eG Innovations, Nagios, Cacti, openstack, vRealize SCVMM.

As a MSP, a hidden gem is the planning guide. I use it for sales guys to determine if they need to purchase any new CPU nodes, for quotes they are preparing for potential clients.

Reporting and planning.

Capacity planning.

More reporting flexibility

2 years

No

No

No

Excellent

Great

No

Complex to get reports we wanted.

Vendor

Good

Complicated

Yes VMware.

Nice product.

Provides automation of cluster resource management.

This has saved us a great deal of expenses by better balancing workloads across ESXi hosts. This allowed for higher VM densities.

Reports: Have a wider variety of canned reports ready to go.

We have been using this for three years.

We had a couple of minor version bugs, but support was excellent and quick to address these.

There were no issues with stability.

There were no issues with scalability.

Customer service is excellent and very proactive.

Technical support is excellent and very proactive.

The setup was straightforward and quick.

The implementation was done in-house with assistance from Turbonomic's engineers.

We achieved an ROI in less than three months.

The pricing was very reasonable.

We considered VMware Operations Manager.

It is an excellent product backed by a fantastic team of technical and customer service staff.

Great product! We were able to correctly size our VMs giving back CPU, memory, and storage capacity to be used in other projects. We can now reclaim license costs and forecast future resource needs.

• For report scheduling, lacks the ability to define the time of day when the report was run.
• Needs to be easier ways to define N+1 capacity when looking at cluster statistics.
• Can't wait for the HTML 5 version. The flash sometimes has response issues. 

We have been using this product for over a year.

We had issues when trying to deploy the solution on a Linux VM. We ended up abandoning it. Instead, we used the Turbonomic packaged SUSE instance. We had no issues with that deployment.

Occasionally after changes in our environment, we often needed to restart the Tomcat service on the instance.

There were no issues with scalability.

Customer service was great. They were always responsive.

We did not use a previous solution.

The installation was very straightforward.

We implemented this solution in-house.

We evaluated vRealize Operations.

Ease of navigation throughout the interface.  It is smooth and seamless with very little to no latency when moving between screens and objects.

As a small organization I am solely responsible for the server/storage environment. With running as lean as we do, this product has simplified the decision making process for maintaining and managing the environment.  Decisions can be made much faster as data is in front of us that is up to date and on demand.

The only areas that I believe could be improved are more built in reporting for monthly/yearly benchmarking from an executive standpoint.  For example, a report that can be used as a metric to show the overall stability of the environment from a weekly/monthly/yearly perspective such as utilization index to verify that we are using resources as efficiently as possible.

I have been using this solutions for around 9 months.

No, with the virtual appliance that can be deployed from an OVF template.  I think I was looking at the interface within a few minutes of deployment.  Just beware it does take some time to gather data that can be analyzed.

We haven't had any issues with stability.  It has thus far been very stable.

The customer service is fantastic.  I needed a custom report template built and it wasn't available on their GreenCircle support page, so they custom built a query and had it back to me within a few hours.

I evaluated a slew of solutions and Turbonomic (then VMTurbo) was heads and tails above the competition.

In-house.

Well worth the investment!

- Balancing workloads across my environment.

- Planning for additional workloads and purchases.

Turbonomic has made more time available for me to pursue other projects.

I would like to see the interface move to HTML5, but I am told that is in the works.

2 years.

None at all, it was very easy.

None.

None.

Probably the best customer service I have ever encountered.

Excellent.

No.

It was very simple, deploying a VM template with a few settings is a breeze, and integration to vCenter is seamless.

I implemented this myself.

Trending on capacity and overall workload for multiple clusters and hypervisors.

UI can be clunky at times, they have a new UI just not fully released.

4 years

Keep your branding file handy. After updates you will need to rebrand the interface.

None.

None.

Excellent.

Excellent.

vRealize, Nagios, SCVMM.

Easy VM deployment - set an IP, set a password, give login credentials to clusters. Boom, done.

The team of me, myself and I.

I have not calculated the time saved but would guess its roughly 5-7 hours a week.

Simple, straightforward, inline with others.

eG, SCVMM, Nagios.