IBM Turbonomic Reviews

Advanced load balancing capabilities, also across clusters. The storage load balancing has helped us avoid LUNs going full. Also, the ability to show historic peak values for guest metrics is a wonderful tool for rightsizing guests.

Turbonomic has helped mitigating the risks of LUNs filling up and resource congestion on individual hosts.

An option to remove unlicensed features from the dashboard would be welcome. We're licensed for the "Workload Edition", so any features that are available only to the "Application Edition" or "Cloud Native Edition" could be hidden from the GUI to avoid misunderstandings, and getting less clutter.

Besides having to manually set "no access" on clusters we did not want to license, it was a breeze.

None yet.

None.

They have been very helpful every time we've been in contact.

Automation and planning capabilities have become a valuable asset for us.

VMTurbo helps us manage our virtual infrastructure with a more automated and hands off approach thanks to the way it proactively looks at issues. Automated v-motioning, for example, has been a great and reliable feature.

While old dashboard view is good, keep improving on the new Dashboard as I feel it is much better. Improve reporting capabilities, perhaps an export to Tableau.

Approximately 17 months.

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Previously we did not use any real virtual infrastructure insight tools aside from SolarWinds. VMTurbo is a different animal however because it provides automation and a proactive approach to monitoring.

Straightforward.

We implemented ourselves with minimal VMTurbo support.

Definitely try this if you have a huge virtual infrastructure, it has become a staple in our environment.

Automated move and workload placement.

Resource planning.

Planning for capacity is much easier now. It is relatively simple to model growth based upon expected company growth for a given cycle, allowing us to acquire the necessary hardware in time to meet the demand.

The interface could use an update. Additional options in data views and dashboards would be welcome. 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.

We have used Turbonomic (VMTurbo) for about 3 years. It replaced VCOps at the time.

None. The solution was easy to implement although we did wait a while to allow it to perform changes on its own.

We were affected by a bug in a release. This did result in unplanned downtime for us. We have modified our policies on updates/patches as a result.

None. The software was been able to keep pace with our environment as it has grown and the licensing model allows us to true up yearly.

Excellent. Both the sales and support staff have been very accommodating but not suffocating.

Excellent. We have been aligned with the proper resources to analyze and provide solutions to the problems we have encountered. The responses from tech support have been transparent and they have provided as much information as possible to be sure we are satisfied.

VMware vCenter Operations - prior to the VRealize operations incarnation.VCOps provided additional metric data and heat maps to gain additional insight into our VMware installation, but we were still left to decide what this data meant and how to improve our performance. Turbonomic makes plain English suggestions on how to optimize our install base.

The setup was simple, with the deployment of a virtual appliance. Updates are similarly easy. The only issue is the time necessary for Turbonomic to observe the environment before it can provide actionable data.

In house. The solution did not seem intimidating enough to require engagement of an outside resource. That being said, we have not implemented all of the features of Turbonomic either. Perhaps with a Vendor would would have had a greater feature set in place.

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.

Turbonomic was able to accommodate our perhaps unique needs in purchasing. Capital expenditures are easier for our team to make versus subscriptions Operating expenditures. Turbonomic offered both models and made it easy for us to even switch between them.

We had a prior installation of VCOperations. We did not feel we were getting real value from that installation - or at least that the release of vCOPS that we were on was not providing value.

Turbonomic was positioned perfectly to take advantage of a lack of metrics and tooling that was available for VMware at the time. Their tools were superior to even those provided by VMware. The market has since caught up, and there are many more competitors in this space. Turbonomic will need to continue to innovate and compound upon what makes them unique to stand out.

Auto Load balancing via the homegrown engine that Turbonomic uses.

Limits the amount of time I have to spend staring at a screen to find bottlenecks and slowdowns in my virtual environment. The ability at one glance to see what machines are over provisioned or under provisioned and the ability to adjust that with just a click.

User interface could use a bit of tweaking.

None whatsoever.

No.

No.

Exceptional, customer service and support is amazing!

Very high, I have had numerous training and question calls with tech support and everyone on the team knows exactly what they are talking about.

We have run earlier version of vROPS, and Foglight.

The install was clean and simple, tailoring it to our environment didn't take much but does take some thought.

We implemented in-house with the use of Turbonimics legendary support.

I've found that the automation of moving VMs for resource allocation is second to none. Excellent feature that makes my life a lot easier.

This product allows me to do other things while it takes care of all the "grunt" work. It also allows me to pull up reports in PDF format as needed, with ease.

This is a very powerful tool that we don't use to its fullest, mostly due to the GUI. If it can be a bit more user friendly and easier to manipulate, I may be able to use the other powerful features it provides.

We've been using Turbonomics for about a year now.

Deployment was smooth and easy.

No issues. Very stable product.

Only because of licensing, since the model we have is per Core.

Excellent.

Excellent.

None.

Straightforward and easy.

In-house team.

Make sure you account for future cores, if this is still the licensing model.

No.

The most valuable features to our organization is the automation of the VM’s to prevent performance issues and to balance the resources of our ESX host. The capacity planning reports are also helpful when requesting for additional hardware.

I never have to worry about the ESX host CPU and memory utilization anymore and allow VMTurbo to do its job.

The dashboard is too basic, could use more details.

3 years

No issues with deployment.

Had issues with the product in the past, where it wasn't reporting correctly. I don't recall the fix, but the support was able to resolve the issue.

No issues have been encountered with scalability

Customer server is always great and respond to my tickets quick.

The technical team are very knowledgeable of the product and knows when to ask for senior assistant when needed.

Never use any previous solutions.

The initial setup was straightforward. Download the appliance and deploy it to our vCenter, configure the network settings and that was pretty much it.

The vendor team assisted with the implementation and we didn't encounter any issues, so they knew what they were doing.

Management dealt with the licensing and pricing.

We looked at vCenter operations manager, but at the time VMTurbo offered more features.

This is a great product, once it's set up, you hardly need to login to the interface.

Removes the need to monitor our virtual environment and I receive daily reports on actions taken for that given day.

We see increased speed in our environment as VM's are moved based on needs and requirements.

Could be more user friendly, but the provided training provided the needed clarity.

The product comes with a ton of features and options, which without training seemed overwhelming.

6 months.

No.

No.

No.

Very good.

Very good.

Install is very simple - used the free version at first.

Call the sales team and ensure you get the solution that fits your needs.

• Visibility of all workloads, whether on-premises or Azure environments

• Control of workloads to assure performance and deliver service levels

• Enforcement of compliance policies across a hybrid cloud

Have the best practices recommendations to optimize our VM environment.

The arithmetic for optimizing the resource of VMs based on the workload.

Some of workload are by a monthly basis. Need to consider the month-end or Q-end workload.

More than three years.

No.

No.

No.

Very cool.

Very cool. We got online demo from the technical support and much assistance in operations.

Veeam MP for VMware, with SCOM 2012 R2.

Now we are still using this solution as our major monitoring system.

It was simple.

Not sure.

No advice.

As I said, Veeam MP for VMware.