IBM Turbonomic Reviews

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.

• 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.

The real time resource usage and capacity planning have been essential to my work.

As a one man IT department, keeping track of resource use across multiple sites has been complicated at best. With Operations Manager, I can see my entire infrastructure in one view, in real time.

Personally, I find the interface, especially for a new user, to be less than user friendly. I don't think this is an issue due to a poor product, but more because the product can do so much, finding the simple tasks can be difficult. After using for a while, it makes sense, and navigating becomes easier.

Less than 1 year.

None, deployment was smooth and easy.

No.

Top Notch. The one time I need to contact support, they were responsive and courteous.

I have only needed support once, and the technician was knowledgeable and helpful in resolving my issue.

No.

Very straightforward. It took me longer to identify a free IP address on my network than to get the software running.

Direct from Turbonomic.

The pricing is quite fair, especially compared to VMware Operation Manager.

My review is unbiased and true to my use, however I was promised compensation for my review.

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.

• After implementation and turning on the VMTurbo DRS in automated mode we recognized better and balanced performance on hosts and VM's.
• We use the reports and reclaimed a lot of wasted storage.

There are fewer tickets about VM performance problems.

3 Years

No. It comes as a virtual appliance which is installed and configured quickly. The update process to a newer version or patch level is simple.

No, very stable.

No issues with scalability.

Excellent

The support team at VMTurbo is so quick in responding. I always get an answer to my questions and they always get me the support I need when I need it. I’ve been very impressed.

We use other Monitoring Tools but not with these automation features.

It comes as a virtual appliance which is installed and configured (IP Settings / vCenter connection) quickly. Around half an hour and you are ready to use it. Some hours later the first recommendations come up.

In-house

Another aspect of being a VMTurbo customer is being a member of the Green Circle Community, an online community for innovators, virtualization experts and forward thinking IT professionals who engage with one another and share their experiences.

I’ve been involved since the beginning of the Green Circle,and it’s been such a great platform to engage with and help others.

The community is so diverse, and you know that what you read is true.

Turbonomic does a great job of handling things like:

• Load balancing in VMware clusters
• Giving insights into how VMs are being utilized resource-wise
• Giving insights into how virtualized applications are running inside of VMs
• Offering suggestions (and that can be automated) to adjust clusters, host hypervisors, and VMs for the best performance

It has saved us a lot of time in keeping our vSphere clusters running smoothly.

We have used this solution for four to five years.

This is one of the areas that Turbonomic shines. Any issues we have with the product are handled quickly. Turbonomic has a great and knowledgeable support staff. There are no first-tier database reading techs here. (You know what I'm talking about!)

Technical support is very professional, efficient, and knowledgeable.

The setup was straightforward. Understanding how the application works in our environment and how to set up rules for different clusters, however, took a little longer. Turbonomic has great training materials on their web site and a really good user forum. They have a top-notch support and engineering team.

We are using Turbonomic as a capacity management and optimization tool.

We are able to optimize our resources in the infrastructure while gatekeeping the oversized resource requests.

Need to improve the report presentation. (Colors, graphs, fonts).

Over a year.

No major issues encountered.

No stability issues encountered.

No scalability issues encountered.

Excellent.

Excellent.

It's a very straightforward setup, anyone can simply deploy.

We tried both ways.

Can be satisfied.

Reasonable as a bundle product.

Yes we used VMware vRealize and Log Insight.

We are happy with Turbonomic. It has a very supportive technical team and a sales team. And let's not forget the training team for their dedication and contribution in educating us.

Starting from the reporting and recommendations, every feature has been very helpful. Even when we decided to not fully automate it, now we have a lot more visibility into what is happening, on a single pane of glass.

We use the tool to properly size the virtual servers and get a lot of resources back, while reducing the Ready time, so that was like winning twice.

I would like to have a report to see all the snapshots.

About a year now.

No issues at all. That was the goal since the first call: please don't bring me something else to manage that will take forever to be in place. Thirty minutes on the phone and the tool was working.

No.

No.

Excellent.

Great too. Didn't go to anybody who didn't knew what was doing. Sometimes when you call to support, you get that feeling that the guy is not following you or does not have a clue what you're asking for. That never happens with their support.

No tool before.

Very straightforward. Thirty minutes on the phone and the tool was working.

In-house.

Not calculated yet, but definitively positive, since we recoup a lot of resources.

They are very flexible on how to make it happen.

No.

Great tool, easy to recommend.