IBM Turbonomic Reviews

• Automated move and workload placement.
• Resource planning.

Planning for capacity is much easier now. With this setup we were able to get specific reporting and it allows us to acquire the necessary hardware in time to meet the demand.

• Additional options in data and report views.
• We would also like to see expansion made in the UCS tools that they provide, to allow viewing the entire UCS environment and not just the equipment that hosts a hypervisor.

3+ years.

No, the solution was easy to implement.

Once we were effected with one of the releases to generate the monthly report which was fixed with a post release upgrade.

None.

Excellent.

Excellent.

None.

The setup was simple, with the deployment of a virtual appliance. Updates are similarly easy.

In-house with the help of their Technical Support team.

Our ROI occurred in less than 6 months by allowing us to avoid a costly server upgrade that was planned for parts of our VMware infrastructure.

We have easily saved extra cost after optimizing resources with VMturbo.

Automated resource management.

Notifications on resource congestion.

Turbonomic has allowed us to hold off on turning up additional hypervisors by allowing us to better use existing hardware.

Training was a bit disjointed at first, but the second session was improved.

Turbonomic has been active for six months.

Yes, due to some versioning issues in our hosting environment, but support quickly tracked down the cause and supplied a fix.

We have not experienced any stability issues since install.

Customer service was first rate in helping us determine if Turbonomic would work for us and directing support to our installation issue.

Technical support was able to quickly resolve our installation issue.

No.

Our initial setup was complicated due to specific versioning issues that were resolved once Technical Support became involved.

We implemented through an in-house team.

As I said, Turbonomics has had immediate effect with both the day to day experience of our users by actively controlling resource congestion, and ensuring we could utilize the current resources to the full amount.

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.

Action mode policy which allows us to manage our environments on a more proactive front.

We are a very small staff, and this gives us a peace of mind that our servers will run optimally.

Wish the storage move accounts for possible VMware snapshots that existed on some host.

3 years.

None

None

We have added additional hosts quite easily.

Excellent

Excellent

No, we had just relied on the the build in vCenter server tools.

Although VMTurbo assisted with the install, is was very straightforward. The same goes for the upgrade process.

Yes, we did evaluate other products but to be honest, I cannot recall at this time.

The product has worked great. It has become a set and forget tool for us which is a good thing.

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.

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.

One of the most valuable tools we encountered with Turbonomic was not even the automation tool we bought it for, but the sizing tool.  We used it when we did our hardware refresh and it was able to tell us how many servers we would need based on our environment.  It helped us save a lot of money and not overbuy.

The balancing features on Turbonomic help keep our environment running fast and more efficiently over even DRS and sDRS.  In fact one the best performance features is the rightsizing tool, to either increase or decrease sizes of specific VM's.  Again this can save money, but also allows our clusters to perform much more reliably with little to no CPU Ready.

I would like to see more integration with 3rd parties.  For example, I would like to be able to provision more storage from Turbonomic, not just have it tell me I need more.

I've used this solution for about 3 years now.

Easiest deployment ever, install it, give it an IP, point it to vCenter and you're done.

Automation options for moving and resizing VMs as necessary have been crucial for our environment's performance.

Automating move and resize tasks have allowed our team to spend less time micro-managing VMs and more time completing projects.

Alert emails could be more comprehensive. The name kind of drives me crazy...It's difficult to say "Turbonomic" in conversation and have someone take you seriously.

I have used it for almost a year.

I encountered minimal deployment issues; we were lacking proper licensing for our environment's hardware.

I have not encountered any stability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Technical support is very good.

Initial setup was very smooth and easy to execute.

Be very clear about what your needs are to ensure you receive proper licensing.