IBM Turbonomic Reviews

Turbonomics ability to present suggested improvements, and enact those changes upon approval, have been very helpful in our environment. We are able to right-size VMs and host resources to save money and provide services to the business.

We have saved money by not having to purchase Enterprise (including DRS) and no longer having to manually balance VMs in a cluster.

The interface has so much to offer, it is a bit complex and there is a learning curve. However, they are more than happy to spend time teaching you to use the product.

Over one year

None

None

None

Excellent

Excellent

No

No

We set it up with Tubonomic's help.

We are saving money and time, so it is good.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Capacity Planning

It allowed us to plan and scale our capacity based on our sales pipeline.

The UI, existing plan modification and the reports layout.

Yes, after every major update a new bug would cause an issue requiring another update.

4/5

3/5