IBM Turbonomic Reviews

We were not able to pay for a version higher than vCenter Standard licenses for our virtual environment. Turbonomic stepped in and helped manage all the things that we needed to do to increase responsiveness and lower costs.

I no longer have to pour over the VM's and hosts statistics to figure out if my environment is running at it best.

It does take a while to figure out their way of doing things. From forecasting and a lingo perspective.

Over one year.

When we purchased the product they were super helpful to make sure we had all of the communication that was necessary to make sure this product was installed successfully.

They are very responsive. In addition when we purchased the product they trained us on all of the features and let us know if we needed any assistance in more detail to not hesitate to give them a call.

I have found the reporting and management functions of Turbonomic second to none. I got introduced to vSphere about two years ago with a running instance of vCOPS and I found it clunky and unclear. Turbonomic gives you a simple yet very detailed overview of your virtual data centre.

The only areas of improvement that I could think of at this moment in time is to just give it a fresh look, their new UI is currently in Beta but it looks very promising.

Approximately 6 months.

No issues with the deployment, probably one of the simplest ones with their provided OVA template.

Turbonomics customer service I found pleasant and a pleasure to work with. Any issue raised will get you a fix in a very short turnaround.

Too early to say, but the planning feature with Turbonomic gives you a fantastic insight on requirements.

Go for perpetual licensing where possible you will get a return on investment just on the features alone.

One of the most valuable features for us was the automation aspect. Defining policies to automate the recommendation process helped us in saving valuable time and reducing manual workload. Going one step further we will be implementing the automatic deployment of hosts based on the desired state information coming from Turbonomic. This way we can have hosts dynamically installed and booted based on our workload.

We have been able to reduce manual labor in keeping our environment healthy performance wise.

One of the areas of improvement are the UI. The current UI feels a bit out dated. Although all information is readily available and easily accessible. From what I have heard and seen at VMworld 2016, a new UI is in development and will be released shortly.

1 year.

Deployment is very simple and straightforward.

None.

Due to the ability to link multiple instance to each other, it can easily be scaled and segmented.

The contacts we had with customer service have been top notch. Very friendly, always willing to help and quick response.

Same as the customer service.

Very simple and straightforward.

In-house.

Less load.

The balancing of clusters has been huge for us. With a high memory contention environment Turbonomic has been invaluable in maintaining excellent performance across all of our clusters. Our DevOps team is working closely with automatic reclamation of resources that will save us tens of thousands of dollars in hardware costs.

The TVs in our offices display custom dashboards that display the health of clusters and the actions taken by Turbonomic. It has helped us justify hardware and software purchases by easily showing our budget-makers where improvements can be felt.

We are looking forward to the HTML5 interface. As it stands now the interface, although easy to navigate, would be very helpful if I could view it on my phone.

9 months.

No.

No.

No.

Fantastic. Their pre and post sales support has been fantastic.

10/10

vCOPs/vROPs. We switched because of the "engineer friendly" interface of that solution. Turbonomic's solution is much more approachable and hands off.

Very simple. OVA/OVF file and point right to our vCenter.

The automation in Turbonomic is priceless, and all the dashboards, native or custom build, give a complete virtual and physical hardware performance view.

Our servers are now correctly utilized, and I am now able to test a complete disaster recovery procedure, or plan a new VM or host implementation.

Since Turbonomic can do so much, it can be a complex system to look at for one that haven’t laid eyes on it before. But there is a possibility to test out the new design, and that looks to improve on this issue.

About 8 months.

None.

None.

Excellent!

Excellent!

Most valuable features were Capacity management and hardware planning.

Provides a level of automation beyond VMware provided DRS.

Reporting is improving. GUI is ugly.

About a year.

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

Great customer service.

Technical support was great.

Yes, used vKernel. Product was not being updated after multiple acquisitions.

Setup was straightforward.

Through an in-house team.

Yes. vKernel, vCOPs.

Easy virtual appliance based implementation. No advise needed.

The automation has been great. We had some VMs running slow due to high IO on their LUNs, and Turbonomic automatically moved them to correct the problem. Our server performance has been much improved. As the environment changes, Turbonomic adjusts and keeps everything running smooth.

Response times have been improved on many of our servers.

We've had the solution a few months.

We allowed our DRS rules to be used for Turbonomic, but didn't have one of the rules selected as active in VMware. All we had to do was click a check box to fix the issue.

No

No

Customer service is excellent.

Technical support was very helpful.

No

It was a straightforward setup.

We implemented it in-house.

We're still working on allowing more automation. Our ROI is constantly improving.

No

The extra training we purchased was worth it. We learned a lot about how to use the product and get the most out of it.

DRS Scheduling/automation. Reporting.

Allowing Turbonomic to take over for vCenter DRS has shown a marked decrease in vMotion of virtual machines to keep our cluster resources balanced.

The interface could use some work to improve overall usability.

Three years.

No.

No.

No.

Excellent!

Excellent!

No.

Very straightforward.

In-house team.

No.

Yes.

I would like to see support for VMware NSX included.