IBM Turbonomic Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

• Visibility of all workloads, whether on-premise or Azure environments.
• Control of workloads to assure performance and deliver service levels.
• Enforcement of compliance policies across a hybrid cloud.

We have the best practices recommendations to optimize our virtual machine (VM) environment.

• The arithmetic of optimizing the resources of VMs based on the workload.
• Some of workload are by a monthly basis. Need to consider the month-end or quarterly-end workload.

More than three years.

No.

No.

No.

Very cool.

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

Veeam MP for VMware with SCOM 2012 R2.

We are still using this solution as our major monitoring system.

It was simple.

Not sure.

No advice.

Veeam MP for VMware.

It is a performance-based application that provides automatic planning on every type of infrastructure, i.e., the on-premise or cloud.

When you have a congestion in your infrastructure, you don’t have to resolve these kinds of problems, the solution is proactive and automatic to take the better for your application when they need it.

I have used this solution for two years.

We never experienced any stability issues.

We never experienced any scalability issues.

I would give the technical support a 10 out of 10 rating.

Previously, we were using vRealize Operations IT Manager (vROps) but it wasn't as granular as Turbonomic.

It is very easy to setup, i.e., one VM to deploy with one week to audit your infrastructure, then add the first recommendation.

It is easy for licensing the physical core CPU.

This is the best solution.

With this product, the admin IT takes time to do other kind of jobs and not to resolve problems.

Resource balancing

Use it over the built-in VMware tools for distributing VMs to hosts.

The way dashboards are accessed with a pop-up can sometimes get in the way.

6+ years

No implementation was easy.

No issues.

No issues scaling we add a new host every 1-2 years.

Very good.

The built-in VMWare tools.

Straightforward.

I don't recall it was a while ago.

The cost was low and we are using it for management not analysis so hard to determine an ROI.

It is a good product for the money.

There were not a many virtualization management software options available in our price range. VMTurbo (at the time) was the only product recommended to us.

It is a solid product that does what it says.