IBM Turbonomic Reviews

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.

We have fully automated resource scheduling with our VMware clusters. We have taken recommendations on sizing that have saved hundred of gigabytes of RAM throughout our clusters.

Without having to worry about a host becoming over-utilized, we have been able to work on more important projects. We are able to be more efficient with our host resources, saving the business money.

A more robust reporting engine would be a huge boon to us. A bit better error messaging with Application Control Module would help during troubleshooting adding a new target.

We've been a Turbo customer since 2014.

No, and their support was very quick and helpful to assist with major upgrades. In the end, it was easy enough that with a little Linux knowledge and the Turbo documentation, even major upgrades could be performed without having to contact support.

Turbo is very powerful, and does exactly what you tell it to do. If you configure it to be too aggressive to either efficiency or performance, your cluster might become unbalanced. We have had great stability keeping it slightly skewed towards efficiency vs performance.

No, we have one Turbo instance controlling multiple datacenters.

10/10 on customer support, as well as account management, could not be happier.

10/10 on technical support. If I encounter a complex issue, they escalate me to a developer resource who dives deeply to find a root cause.

VMware's DRS didn't seem to balance our clusters very evenly. vROps made sizing recommendations that were just not correct. We tested Turbo and the recommendations were all on point and we are able to trust them.

Very easy setup. OVA template, adding vCenters, making some groups, allowing our firewalls to let Turbo access everything and we were set.

In-house team was easily able to install.

We've saved an entire ESXi host worth of RAM with Turbo.

This product is very competitively priced for all the automation it brings.

We actually purchased vROps but it wasn't enough.

We really love Turbo and the time it saves us.

Migration planning, VM rightsIzing reports, performance assurance dashboards, workload placement rules and planning.

Helps us rightsize workloads, highlight bottlenecks and effectively plan for capacity.

Can't wait for the new GUI (which is due soon) as the old interface can be difficult to navigate.

Two years.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Really good, all the account management I've spoken to understand their product and how we can improve and progress our environment.

Also really good. All the support staff I've spoken to understand their product and what we're trying to achieve.

No.

Very striaghtforward.

In-house.

No exact figure, but the aim is to extend the lifespan of our hypervisor host before adding capacity.

In order to get the most out of the product cost, you need to drive the rightsizing of workloads. Trust in what it recommends.

No.

Nope.

The most valuable features are automation and the single console to manage my virtual environment. Another good feature is that the alerts are in English, so my management team can address issues when I am out of the office.

The biggest improvement for us has been we have been more proactive when dealing with issues. We can even head things off before they cause any outages.

The biggest issue that I ever had was that the old interface was buggy sometimes. It doesn't always refresh without me logging off and on.

We have been using this solution for two years.

There were no issues during deployment. We had it up and running within five minutes.

I had issues once with the MySQL database. It was dealt with immediately.

We have not added any additional hosts.

Customer service has been great and anytime that I needed anything, they responded within a few minutes.

Technical support has been great. They have fixed any little bugs that I ran across.

We evaluated several different products and decided on Turbonomic for the ease of use and the amount of data we have been able to get out of the software.

The setup was straightforward. We were up and running within five minutes and pulling data.

The setup was done in-house.

The return on investment for us has not been on the monetary side. It has been helpful in being able to report better to the executives on the hardware and servers. They are able to see where we need to make improvements.

Licensing is pretty straightforward. It is similar to the VM model pricing per socket.

We looked at SolarWinds and vCOps. They were not has easy to use compared to Turbonomic.

I have used tons of software that has had a huge learning curve. Turbonomic is easy to use, but has the ability to provide much more complex data and planning for projects and growth.

We have always used Turbonomic as a true DRS solution over the provided VMware vCenter service.

Turbonomic has allowed us to achieve greater density with optimal performance to our hosted consumers. The ability to extend Dynamic Resource Allocation across clusters has been our new endeavor with VMTurbo that has optimized our capacity, performance and allowed us to scale outside the limitations of vCenter.

We are able to balance loads across clusters automatically, versus the very manual calculation and migration process without VMTurbo.

I would like to see the UI become a little more clean but have no suggestion on how to make it better.

I have used it for two years but the company has been using VMTurbo for around four.

We like the option to create our own dashboards for each team member. Also the availability for Turbonomic to migrate my machines around in my environment makes my job easier.

I no longer have to keep my vSphere Client open to monitor constantly. I let the product move machines to new hosts and change datastores as needed for best overall performance. And all of this is based on best practice from Turbonomic and a few tweaks on our end.

The product needs tighter integration points with storage vendors, the mainstream top 5-6 are added but it would be nice to see more.

Additional reporting and alerting would be great additions as well.

A little over a year, solution works great!

We had this software up and running within a few minutes. We got followup help from the Turbonomic team and everything went smooth.

At first we ran into some workload issues where the software managed items we didn't want included; we were able to make adjustments to correct this issue. At times the VM-OVA has to be restarted due to changes within product.

None at all, we have a lot of hosts and VMs and the OVA file we deployed scaled perfectly.

Top notch customer service. They follow up with you as needed to make sure the product works as expected, send emails when new updates are available and support has resolved any issues we ran into immediately.

As stated above, support has always been quick to assist and resolve any issues we ran into.

No previous solution. At the time no other vendors offered a similar product, other than Veeam.

Straightforward, took less than an hour to completely install and configure baselines. Within a couple days all tweaks were in place and it ran great.

In-house with assistance from Turbonmic support team. Smooth process.

At this time our largest ROI is not having to spend constant hours watching our VM environment.

Cost effective solution that works.

We did not.

Keep up the great work and keep the new features coming. We are excited to see what happens in the next 12 months with advancements.

Reporting, Dashboards & DRS.

Helped us right size a number of VMs and helped reduce CPU ready time.

Maybe a cleaner backend. HTML5?

Over 1 year.

No issues. Simple to deploy. The team helped set up the appliance and were quick to help with any custom requests.

No issues yet.

No.

Very good. Very quick response times.

Very good. Knowledgeable staff.

No.

It was fairly straightforward to set up and anything we could not figure out ourselves the team had a solution for us very quickly.

In house/directly with VMTurbo.

It is an expensive product so we have only licenced the critical hosts in production. Some of the features may not work if your VMware hosts are not licenced. Features such as DRS will not work unless you have a cluster licenced for DRS in VMware. Therefore the workload placement VMTurbo tries to carry out will not work as the VMs will not migrate.

Yes, vROPS.

Turbonomic (VMTurbo), once it is set up and running, works behind the scenes to run the VMs as efficiently as possible based on the available resources.

Turbonomic, per its design, finds bottlenecks and, depending on how it is configured, recommends actions and takes action to resolve the bottlenecks. Bottlenecks could be related to RAM, CPU, disk IO, etc.

Instead of buying more RAM for ESX hosts, Turbonomic managed the VMs in a more efficient way than DRS. The software makes recommendations of increasing the number of ESX hosts.

After our ESX lease was up and we purchased new hardware with more RAM, we continue to use Turbonomic in our development and UAT lane. I expect to use this product when using the cloud as the cost of CPU and RAM in the cloud will be prohibitive.

Turbonomic is not easy to use out of the box. It took a two-day session with an on-site tech to get up to speed.

The product's economics terminology is initially foreign to a system administrator.

There are many options in this application and if the admin is not using the app frequently it is easy to forget.

Six months.

Customer service was pretty responsive.

Technical support was pretty responsive. Issues that could not be immediately resolved were escalated to Engineering/development.

We got help from an on-site tech to perform the install.