IBM Turbonomic Reviews

The planner feature is my favourite. It lets you had VMs change host RAM capacity, change IOP and NT throughput requirements, basically any scenario that an infrastructure team may get asked about by management.

The ability to group VMs together to provide service or department picture of their infrastructure is great.

Assurance spread of resources over our cluster and to right size VMs.

Due to the planner features breath of scenarios it can be a little confusing to get the right result for the scenario you need. However their are lots of videos for this and support were most helpful.

An agreement with Pernix would be helpful.

2 years

None.

Never.

None.

Excellent. They have teams dedicated to helping their customers get the most from the product.

Excellent.

Very straightforward.

In house team.

12 months - due to our conservative nature we did not turn on automation at the beginning, and the planning feature was only used during project planning phases.

vCOPS and VKernel - both were traditional monitoring tools, that are reactive, whereas VMTurbo is proactive.

Automation And Planning capabilities are most valuable for our company.

VMTurbo helps us manage our virtual infrastructure with a more automated and hands-off approach, thanks to the way it proactively looks at issues.

Email alerts could be more comprehensive.

I've been using it for almost two years now.

None.

None, we haven't had any issues.

No issues with scalability.

Excellent.

Excellent.

No we did not.

Initial setup was very smooth and easy to execute.

We implemented ourselves, with VMTurbo support.

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

None.

Definitely try this if you have a huge virtual infrastructure, it has become a staple in our environment. Be very clear about what your needs are to ensure you receive proper licensing.

Load balancing VMs across our cluster.

Automation of keeping resources balanced among the cluster.

NA.

Six years.

No.

Occasionally the server does not load balance properly and needs to be restarted.

No.

10.

10.

No.

No.

In-house.

NA

Licensing cost is relatively cost effective.

No.

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.

Reporting is a great feature. Also how it can automate easy tasks so you are not burdened with them.

Gives me more time to spend on real issues.

The GUI could be more user friendly, and more CMD applets should be created or shared with the community.

Two years.

No.

No.

No.

Great. Always very helpful, above and beyond most companies.

Always very knowledgeable the few times I had to call.

No.

Yes, just load the OVA, assign an IP, import your inf.

Vendor team, easy implementation.

Not sure, I do not deal with the money aspect.

After the first year the costs are very reasonable.

No.

This software has helped me ease my morning burden of adding/removing CPU and storage vMotions.