IBM Turbonomic Reviews

The most valuable features are the planning tool, the policy engine, workload charts, and the extensive library of dashboards.

We use Turbonomic to fully optimize the use of our infrastructure. We also use it for health checks and assessments we perform for our customers.

The current UI (Adobe Flash) is very clunky and inefficient; however, their new HTML5 UI (in Demo mode) will be GA in late 2017.

I have used it for two years.

We have not encountered any deployment issues. It went very smoothly. You can deploy the OVA/QCOW2 file to multiple hypervisor platforms or use a RHEL distribution instead.

Aside from the Flash-based UI needing to be refreshed, it is very stable.

One Turbonomic instance supports up to 10,000 VMs, so no, scalability was not an issue.

Customer service is great.

Technical support is great.

I have used vRealize Operations Manager a lot for VMware solution monitoring. I changed to Turbonomic because it is a vendor-agnostic platform that can be used for monitoring, but really is an automation and control platform for optimizing your entire environment.

Initial setup was straightforward: deploy OVA, assign IP address, log in as administrator, configure your targets, done. You can be up and going within 60 minutes.

An in-house team implemented it.

I typically see a 30%-40% ROI in the first year.

Try the solution out; it is easy to set up and the first 30 days are free. After that, scope your requirements and talk to Turbonomic about the cost of the solution and then NEGOTIATE a discount.

Before choosing this product, we evaluate d VMware vROps, ManageEngine AppManager, and OpManager.

Try it out for free and see how quickly it can optimize your environment.

The default dashboards give an excellent view of the current health of the virtual infrastructure. But its not just current health, it give sensible recommendations for remediation. Creating custom dashboards is easy and gives quick visibility into specific groups of systems or metrics.

We have been able to get the most out of our hardware investment as its being used more efficiently. Virtual machine resource over and under commitment quickly filters to the top and can be addressed. We are also using the storage integration module which allows us to track storage performance from virtual machine to storage controller.

When trying to view a trend at 4+ day period, the trend lines tend to flatten out and move to a single data point a day.

We have been using this product for about 2 and a half years.

No issues and it can't get any easier. Love the virtual appliance deployment.

None.

None.

I'm in contact with our Customer Experience Manager every month. He is always checking to see how things are going, asking what can be improved, and offering assistance in using the functions of the product.

I've had very few interactions with support but the ones I've had have been very helpful and resolved the issue.

None.

Step 1. Deploy OVA.
Step 2. Connect to vCenter.
Step 3. Complete

Pretty Straightforward.

In-house.

The customizable dashboard lets us get quick insight into our environment. The quick overview of your environment allows you to get to fixing the things that matter most quickly.

It allows us to plan accordingly for any future growth.

There needs to be a way to permanently ignore certain alerts, such as if you have a server where you know the HDD space is low but also know it's never going to grow any to tell it to always ignore that one. Also email alerts for HDD space do not seem to exist, or if they do they aren't working properly or they aren't self explanatory to setup.

About a year.

No, we did not have any deployment issues

No issues with stability

Customer service is top notch, the product demos and trial we got early on were very helpful.

We haven't had to use tech support yet but I'm sure they are fantastic

We did use Virtualization Manager before and it didn't seem near as robust as Turbonomic and it was more expensive so we switched.

Setup was very easy.

We implemented it with the help of VMTurbo team.

This is an overall great and easy to use product and has been very helpful in our organization, definitely recommend it!

We looked to this product to help us to right-size our virtual machines and containers. Most people who request virtual machines tend to request more resources than they need, and most of the time it's hard to prove that they don't.

Our environment is entirely on-premises. We have virtual machines and Kubernetes running on some of those VMs. We also have plans to go to the cloud with some workloads in the future, so it's good to have this tool to help get the sizing just right when the time comes to pull the plug.

Turbonomic has been helping us use our resources more efficiently, the challenge we currently face internally is getting people to allow the servers to be turned off to make the changes recommended.

I also like the planning tool, which is helpful to make sure we have enough capacity for failing over one datacenter to the other in case of disaster, while still maximizing what we already have and helping to keep us from making host purchases we don't need yet. It's nice not having to make all those calculations on my own.

At the moment, I have only really had the opportunity to manage virtual machines with it.

We're starting to let it look at our Kubernetes workloads as well.

The automation and orchestration components are definitely the best part, as you can tell it what it can do and when, and just let it be. However, I haven't reached that point yet. That is the plan for the future though.

I really like the planning tool so I can make sure we have enough resources for upcoming projects that require servers, while still having enough resources for our disaster recovery failover needs.

The reporting feature could be made a little more seamless with the rest of the tool. It would be nice to be able to share and print the reports a little more easily.

Some features are only available via changes to the deployment YAML, and it would be better to have them in the UI.

The upgrade process is a bit tedious, but I know the team is working on that.

The ability to set the scope at the dashboard level and let it flow down to all the widgets you add would be amazing. Having to select the scope per widget is a bit tedious.

We have been using Turbonomic for just under a year.

It is pretty stable, we have not had issues with that.

Turbonomic seems scalable to me.

Technical support is where Turbonomic shines.

Lots of features are still in the works but the company really makes sure you have a lot of attention and support after the sale, which is sometimes hard to get. Most of the time, once a vendor has your money, you never hear from them again. However, I have had a great experience with post-sales support and a lot of hand-holding.

It is really well done on their part to make their customer happy.

We did not use a similar solution prior to this one.

The initial setup is pretty straightforward.

Deployed was completed in-house.

We have no ROI so far.

It's worth the time and money investment if you can afford it.

We evaluated VMware vROps before selecting Turbonomic.

• Improving the overall efficiency of the dashboard.
• Plan View
• Environmental Health Chart

We utilized the Plan View to understand our hardware requirements. When we replaced our old hardware with the new hardware in our datacenters, we were able to more accurately predict our needs, then with the old rule of thumb method.

We have two Turbonomic sites set up and use an aggregator to provide an overview of them. The biggest suggestion that I could make is for the changes in the aggregator to be imported into the Turbonomic sites. Currently, we make the change at one site, then the second site keeps our environment on an equal basis.

We have used Turbonomic for over two and a half years.

No, there have never been any issues in deployment.

Early on in our PoC, we encountered issues, where some of our VMGuests failed to have their information log correctly. That was a number of versions ago and we have not experienced the issue since.

The only issue we have had with scalability is that the sites are not integrated into the aggregator. We need to update each site individually and cannot export or import the changes, and need to do double duty to maintain a level playing field in multiple environments.

Customer Service:

Excellent.

Technical Support:

Excellent.

We did not have a previous solution.

The initial setup was very straightforward.

A vendor team who was excellent.

Turbonomic has provided us an automagic optimization of our environment from an operational point of view. I am not sure if we could have as easily setup the same functionality from vROps or on such a granular level.

We have found the automation for moving VMs optimally to be much better than VMware DRS. We have also rebalanced our storage platform using the recommended storage moves. This has improved performance and capacity use across hosts and storage.

Cluster Capacity Dashboards have been a huge benefit towards capacity planning and scaleout reviews

The planner element of the product is fantastic for host replacement planning and allowing the rightsizing of our disaster recovery (DR) provisioning.

We now have a more robust capacity request process within the department, and over the past 18 months, we have put on hold a scale out of physical hosts at both our primary datacenter and DR. This has saved the trust 1000s in new hosts and more than paid for the solution many times over.

The planner can be complex to complete.

Three years.

No issues.

No issues.

No issues.

Customer Service:

Excellent.

Technical Support:

Excellent.

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager was our previous product. This solution was slow, overly complex and its impact limited in terms of what it was capable of doing.

Very straightforward and the technical team walked us through all we needed to configure.

In-house, as it was very straightforward.

This year, we have probably saved around £24,000 on new host scaleouts.

We pay a subscription model, which more than pays for itself each year.

Yes, we used SolarWinds Virtualization Manager.

As a manager of a large complex critical healthcare infrastructure, this product has been a huge benefit to me and my team. It is the go to solution for troubleshooting and decision-making regarding our VMware-based datacenters.

• Assure service performance
• Policy/automation
• Plan/capacity planning
• Application module
• Network module

Assure Service Performance: This feature is useful, because it gives us insightful information (similar to ESXTOP, but minus all the analysis) about a virtual machine (VM), whether it is over-provisioned or under-provisioned. The recommendations help us maintain a well-balanced virtual environment.

Policy/Automation: We set up a policy of automatically adding more vCPUs to the VMs based on Turbonomic's recommendation and continuous monitoring. This feature serves a dual-purpose for us: alleviate administrative tasks for our sysadmins and help maintain the highest performance in our VMs.

Plan: It is a great tool for capacity planning. It helps to eliminate all the guesses and gives us a good idea of the hardware specs we will need for future expansion.

Application/Network Module: Another great features that we use in our environment to help autoscale our application servers, so they are performing smoothly and fluidly with minimal intervention.

It would be helpful to have the option to display the target(s) by their host name instead of their IP address. Also, hopefully Turbonomic will continue to increase supports for more target types (vendors).

For me, a bit over a year. However, our team has been using it for years.

It has been a while, and I forgot. If there were any issues, they were probably very minimal. Otherwise, it was pretty straightforward.

Nothing so far.

No.

It has been excellent.

It has been excellent.

We were using both Veeam and VMTurbo at one point, but it was management's decision to go with VMTurbo.

It wasn't too complex.

Vendor team. They were knowledgeable and the deployment was pretty smooth.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Veeam.

Automation of leveling out compute power across servers and forecasting.

I would simplify the navigation, this would be a great read-only tool to give to upper management.

One year.

Not a single hiccup.

It eats memory but a simple reboot fixes that.

No.

Nine out of 10.

Nine out of 10.

Only native VMware solutions.

Very simple.

In-house.

Not 100% sure.

I do not.

No, this was provided to me.

The support team is outstanding!