IBM Turbonomic Reviews

We leverage Turbonomic for all of our planning activities. It provides us the tools we need to plan the scaling of our virtual desktop infrastructure.

In the past, we would try to manually capture resource utilization, and then use raw math to extrapolate growth requirements. With Turbonomic, we can scale a production (or proposed) use case based on normalized real data, and know exactly the horsepower it will need.

I think that our only limitation to date is that we have yet to tap in to its full potential.

18 months.

None.

None.

None.

Customer service around our user related "how to" questions has been outstanding.

Customer service around our user related "how to" questions has been outstanding.

N/a

Initial was straightforward and followed documentation cleanly.

In-house.

Compared to other competitors, Turbonomic is reasonable priced.

We attempted to leverage a built-in VMware solution, but it lacked depth.

Automatic resource use optimization

We spend much less time trying to figure out how best to distribute VMs, and how much horsepower to give each one.

Better alerting and reporting.

Two years.

No.

No.

No.

Very good.

Very good.

No, unless you count VMware's built in DRS functionality.

It was straightforward.

In-house.

Hard to put a number on it, but I'd say we use our resources much more efficiently now.

I find their economics-based algorithms fascinating. It works brilliantly.

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.

Automation of improvements and the planning module.

We can use the planner to support a business case. Improvements for performance or growth can be executed without human interference. You only have to think about it once then its fire and forget.

I overheard that the report granularity could be improved.

The only issue I had in the past is the fact that the manager was equipped with only one hard disk so excessive logging could cause an issue. But that was solved in a new version.

We use the product for about 2 years now.

No issues encountered and the deployment took us about 15 minutes. That is basic default setup. Without policies defined.

In the latest version we had no issues. In an earlier version we had a disk space issue due to logging.

No, we have a steady growing Global environment and we didn't have issues so far.

Excellent.

Same as Customer service. Quick, professional and always prepared to follow up.

We first used VeemOne but the added value because of the automation feature pulled us in.

Initial set up was very easy. Support helped us with some additional steps to take for the creation of policies.

Implementation was done in-house.

For final tuning and automation features we got help from technical support.

Pricing is very competitive.

Yes, Veeam One.

Great added value to our business.

- The fact that I can monitor all my environments resources from one central console.

- I can provide a report on each individual machine if requested.

- I can trust Turbonomics to streamline my environment by allowing it to perform certain actions.

It is like we hired a junior system admin that works 24 hours a day to keep our environment in top form.

The Graph and Report outputs could be improved.

We have been using Turbonomics (VMTurbo) for about 1.5 years now.

No.

No.

No.

Excellent. Rob and a few other guys from Turbonomics are always willing to help. Because I have taken over from a senior resource that has left the company, I have a standing WebEx every month to review my Turbonomics environment. They are always willing to assist.

Excellent. Almost all issues are resolved a few hours after a service call has been logged.

This is our first performance capacitor tool.

Straightforward.

Installation took place a little before my time. But as far as what I can gather, it was a hybrid of in-house and vendor. The installation was performed via a RD session.

No.

There are a few we can't live without. Rightsizing (Optimization), Monthly Summary & Cluster Capacity along with the Planning.

There are no more arguments between departments anymore. We add and remove resources based off our optimization report. And we no longer have to allocate absurd amounts of resources to cover for crappy code.

Every once in a while when we perform an upgrade, it wipes out our setting. We need to go in and set it back up again. This is mildly annoying.

5 years

No - Very easy.

No

Customer Service is excellent. I have yet to open a ticket and not have my problem looked at right away. 99% of the time, the issues were resolved right away.

Excellent - Very knowledgeable

It was straightforward.

This was in-house.

You always get what you pay for.... but in this case - I feel like I get a lot more. Completely worth it.

SolarWinds - Vops (or whatever it's called now)

Turbonomics is a GREAT Product - Worth every $$..

The software has truly improved the performance of our VM environment.  The software has made noticeable improvements in DRS.  Turbonomics has made numerous upsizing and downsizing recommendations of virtual machines which allowed us to reclaim and redistribute valuable HW resources.

We had CPU issues with one of our SQL servers.  The software was able to provide us with recommendations on correctly sizing the platform eliminating many of the performance problems.

The software functions as advertised. There are charts and graphs in the dashboard that are confusing to read and understand.  It would be nice to have a detailed explanation of what the graph is showing directly accessible from the UI.

We've been using the software for just over 6 months.

The deployment and onsite implementation with the instructor was very helpful.

The initial setup was easy and straight forward.  The company provides you with an OVA template to get you going within an hour.

Storage Analysis and Automated Datastore migration.

Allowed us to concentrate less on the day to day optimization and more on the big picture of utilization.

Interface needs to loose Flash completely and switch to HTML5.

1.5 years

No, the product ran just fine, though on a couple of occasions performing a version upgrade did not complete and required several attempts.

No, we scaled our ESXi hosts and VMTurbo scaled accordingly.

Excellent! Both pre-service and post-service were world class. The company has a vested interest in ensuring their customers know what they are buying and are supported with great care.

Excellent as well. Minor issues with version updates were quickly corrected/addressed and questions about configuration and optimization were handled very promptly.

No.

Very straightforward and simple. Adding monitored components was a bit cumbersome and required some help from support but in the end everything was successfully identified and properly connected.

In-House!

Hard to put in exact numbers, however many hours have been saved each week in optimization and monitoring.

Ensure to order the correct/complete modules for your environment and equipment.

No.

Great solution, great future.