Foglight for Virtualization vs IBM Turbonomic comparison

Quest Software and IBM are both solutions in the Virtualization Management Tools category. Quest Software is ranked #9 with an average rating of 9.0, while IBM is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.0. Quest Software holds a 2.0% mindshare in VM, compared to IBM’s 13.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Quest Software users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 19, 2025

Foglight for Virtualization and IBM Turbonomic are IT infrastructure optimization products. IBM Turbonomic has an advantage due to its robust features and advanced capabilities.

Features: Foglight for Virtualization provides monitoring and diagnostic capabilities, offers real-time performance insights, and identifies bottlenecks effectively. IBM Turbonomic enables automated resource optimization, manages workloads efficiently, and provides comprehensive analytics for predictive decision-making.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Foglight for Virtualization is characterized by its straightforward deployment and reliable support. IBM Turbonomic, despite being complex, offers strong customer support which aids in deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Foglight for Virtualization is known for its competitive setup cost and efficient ROI. IBM Turbonomic, while having higher upfront costs, offers considerable long-term returns due to its advanced optimization.

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Categories and Ranking

Foglight for Virtualization

Ranking in Virtualization Management Tools

9th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Turbonomic

Ranking in Virtualization Management Tools

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

205

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (7th), Cloud Management (5th), IT Financial Management (1st), IT Operations Analytics (4th), Cloud Analytics (1st), Cloud Cost Management (1st), AIOps (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Virtualization Management Tools category, the mindshare of Foglight for Virtualization is 2.0%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 13.0%, down from 13.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Virtualization Management Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
IBM Turbonomic	13.0%
Foglight for Virtualization	2.0%
Other	85.0%

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Waleed Masad

Technical Manager at METS

Easy-to-setup product with efficient data migration features

Many customers consider Quest Foglight for Virtualization a critical tool for migrations or new projects. In particular, one noteworthy case involved a bank that made Foglight integration a prerequisite. Some customers now rely 100% entirely on Foglight for their daily operations The product is…

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Dan Ambrose

Infrastructure Engineer 4 at Hyland

Helps visibility, bridges the data gap, and frees up time

We use IBM Turbonomic in a hybrid cloud environment. Although it supports multi-cloud capabilities, we currently operate in a single-cloud setting. Turbonomic offers visibility into our environment's performance, spanning across applications, underlying infrastructure, and protection resources. The visibility and analytics help to bridge the data gap between disparate IT teams such as applications and infrastructure. This is important for awareness collaboration, cost saving, and helping to design and improve our application. Enhanced visibility and data analytics have contributed to a significant reduction in our mean time to resolve. Tools like Turbonomic provide crucial visualization and insights, empowering us to make data-driven decisions instead of relying on assumptions as we did before. This newfound transparency translates to a massive improvement, going from complete darkness to having a clear 100 percent view of the situation. Although our applications are not optimized for the cloud we have seen some improvement in response time. IBM Turbonomic empowers us to achieve more with fewer people thanks to automation. Previously, customers frequently contacted us requesting resource increases to resolve issues. Now, we have a tool that allows us to objectively assess their needs, leading to a deeper understanding of our applications. This solution also generates significant cost savings in the cloud and optimizes hardware utilization within our data centers. Its AI algorithm intelligently allocates servers on hosts, maximizing efficiency without compromising performance. By fine-tuning resource allocation without causing performance bottlenecks, Turbonomic extends the lifespan of existing hardware, postponing the need for new purchases. This effectively stretches our capital expenditure budget. We started to see the benefits of IBM Turbonomic within the first 60 days. IBM is a fantastic partner. Their tech support has been outstanding, and the product itself is excellent - a very solid offering. By automating resource management with Turbonomic, our engineers are freed up to focus on more strategic initiatives like innovation and ongoing organizational projects. Previously, manually adding resources was a time-consuming process that interrupted workflows. Now, automation handles scaling efficiently, saving us thousands of man-hours and significant costs. It has illuminated the need for SetOps. It has highlighted areas of overspending, and the actions we've taken have demonstrated significant cost savings. IBM Turbonomic has positively impacted our overall application performance. IBM Turbonomic has helped reduce both CAPEX and OPEX. It has also significantly reduced cloud build times.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product is stable and easy to set up. It provides minimum false alarms."

"The most important feature to us is an objective measurement of VM headroom per cluster. In addition, the ability to check for the right-sizing of VMs."

"Before implementing Turbonomic, we had difficulty reaching a consensus about VM placement and sizing. Everybody's opinion was wrong, including mine. The application developers, implementers, and infrastructure team could never decide the appropriate size of a virtual machine. I always made the machines small, and they always made them too big. We were both probably wrong."

"It also brings up a list of machines and if something is under-provisioned and needs more compute power it will tell you, 'This server needs more compute power, and we suggest you raise it up to this level.' It will even automatically do it for you. In Azure, you don't have to actually go into the cloud provider to resize. You can just say, 'Apply these resizes,' and Turbonomic uses some back-end APIs to make the changes for you."

"The system automatically sizes and moves resources based on the needs of the applications."

"The proactive monitoring of all our open enrollment applications has improved our organization. We have used it to size applications that we are moving to the cloud. Therefore, when we move them out there, we have them appropriately sized. We use it for reporting to current application owners, showing them where they are wasting money. There are easy things to find for an application, e.g., they decommissioned the server, but they never took care of the storage. Without a tool like this, that storage would just sit there forever, with us getting billed for it."

"My favorite part of the solution is the automation scheduling. Being able to choose when actions happen, and how they happen..."

"I have the ability to automate things similar to the Orchestrator stuff. I do have the ability to have it do some balancing, and if it sees some different performance metrics that I've set not being met, it'll actually move some of my virtual machines from, let's say, one host to another. It is sort of an automation tool that helps me. Basically, I specify the metric, and if I get a certain host or something being over-utilized, it'll automatically move the virtual machines around for me. It basically has to snap into my vCenter and then it can make adjustments and move my virtual machines around. It also has some very nice reporting tools built around virtual machines. It tells you how much storage, memory, or CPU is being used monthly, and then it gives you a very nice way to be able to send out billing structure to your end users who use servers within your environment."

"It is a good holistic platform that is easy to use. It works pretty well."

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Cons

"Quest Foglight for Virtualization's integration needs enhancement."

"The implementation could be enhanced."

"I would like Turbonomic to add more services, especially in the cloud area. I have already told them this. They can add Azure NetApp Files. They can add Azure Blob storage. They have already added Azure App service, but they can do more."

"The way it handles updates needs to be improved."

"It can be more agnostic in terms of the solutions that it provides. It can include some other cost-saving methods for the public cloud and SaaS applications as well."

"They could add a few more reports. They could also be a bit more granular. While they have reports, sometimes it is hard to figure out what you are looking for just by looking at the date."

"Since the introduction of a HTML 5 based interface, our main - but minor - criticism of a less than intuitive operation managers' GUI would be the area of improvement."

"I do not like Turbonomic's new licensing model. The previous model was pretty straightforward, whereas the new model incorporates what most of the vendors are doing now with cores and utilization. Our pricing under the new model will go up quite a bit. Before, it was pretty straightforward, easy to understand, and reasonable."

"The one point is the reporting. We do have reports out of it, but they're not the level of graphical detail I would like."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is affordable."

"Everybody tells me the pricing is high. But the ROIs are great."

"I know there have been some issues with the billing, when the numbers were first proposed, as to how much we would save. There was a huge miscommunication on our part. Turbonomic was led to believe that we could optimize our AWS footprint, because we didn't know we couldn't. So, we were promised savings of $750,000. Then, when we came to implement Turbonomic, the developers in AWS said, "Absolutely not. You're not putting that in our environment. We can't scale down anything because they coded it." Our AWS environment is a legacy environment. It has all these old applications, where all the developers who have made it are no longer with the company. Those applications generate a ton of money for us. So, if one breaks, we are really in trouble and they didn't want to have to deal with an environment that was changing and couldn't be supported. That number went from $750,000 to about $450,000. However, that wasn't Turbonomic's fault."

"I don't know the current prices, but I like how the licensing is based on the number of instances instead of sockets, clusters, or cores. We have some VMs that are so heavy I can only fit four on one server. It's not cost-effective if we have to pay more for those. When I move around a VM SQL box with 30 cores and a half-terabyte of RAM, I'm not paying for an entire socket and cores where people assume you have at least 10 or 20 VMs on that socket for that pricing."

"It was an annual buy-in. You basically purchase it based on your host type stuff. The buy-in was about 20K, and the annual maintenance is about $3,000 a year."

"The product is fairly priced right now. Given its capabilities, it is excellently priced. We think that the product will become self-funding because we will be able to maximize our resources, which will help us from a capacity perspective. That should save us money in the long run."

"When we have expanded our licensing, it has always been easy to make an ROI-based decision. So, it's reasonably priced. We would like to have it cheaper, but we get more benefit from it than we pay for it. At the end of the day, that's all you can hope for."

"We see ROI in extended support agreements (ESA) for old software. Migration activities seem to be where Turbonomic has really benefited us the most. It's one click and done. We have new machines ready to go with Turbonomic, which are properly sized instead of somebody sitting there with a spreadsheet and guessing. So, my return on investment would certainly be on currency, from a software and hardware perspective."

"Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	41
Midsize Enterprise	57
Large Enterprise	147

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Quest Foglight for Virtualization?

The product is stable and easy to set up. It provides minimum false alarms.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Quest Foglight for Virtualization?

The product is affordable. I rate the pricing a seven out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Quest Foglight for Virtualization?

Quest Foglight for Virtualization's integration needs enhancement.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?

It offers different scenarios. It provides more capabilities than many other tools available. Typically, its price is set as a percentage of the consumption of some of our customers' services. The ...

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What needs improvement with Turbonomic?

The implementation could be enhanced.

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What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?

We use IBM Turbonomic to automate our cloud operations, including monitoring, consolidating dashboards, and reporting. This helps us get a consolidated view of all customer spending into a single d...

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Also Known As

VKernel vScope Explorer, vOPS Server, Vizioncore

Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager

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Overview

Foglight for Virtualization optimizes and monitors virtual environments, offering insights into performance and resource allocation to enhance virtualization management efficiency.

Designed to provide IT professionals with robust capabilities, Foglight for Virtualization aids in monitoring performance, managing resources, and troubleshooting. It delivers comprehensive analytics that helps identify issues before they impact operations, thereby supporting proactive management of virtual infrastructures. As virtualization becomes crucial in IT infrastructure, having a tool like Foglight that ensures high efficiency and minimal downtime is invaluable.

What are the valuable features of Foglight for Virtualization?

Comprehensive Analytics: Provides detailed insights into virtual environments, facilitating informed management decisions.
Resource Optimization: Ensures efficient allocation of resources by identifying underused and overused assets.
Performance Troubleshooting: Quickly pinpoints issues impacting virtual environment performance.
Capacity Planning: Aids in predicting future needs to prevent resource shortages.
Cross-Platform Support: Manages diverse virtualization platforms within a single dashboard.

What benefits and ROI should users look for in reviews?

Improved Efficiency: Streamlines operations by reducing diagnostic and troubleshooting time.
Cost Savings: Optimizes resource utilization, leading to decreased hardware and energy expenses.
Scalability: Supports growth by providing adaptable management solutions for expanding virtual environments.
Enhanced Performance: Ensures smooth operations with proactive management and monitoring.
Reduced Downtime: Minimizes interruptions by resolving performance issues promptly.

This tool is implemented across sectors like finance, healthcare, and education, where managing virtualized environments efficiently is crucial. Users in these industries rely on Foglight for its ability to adapt to specific requirements and maintain high standards of performance in complex infrastructures.

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IBM Turbonomic offers automation, planning, and right-sizing recommendations to streamline resource management, improve efficiencies, and optimize costs across virtualized environments and cloud platforms.

IBM Turbonomic is valued for its capability to optimize resource allocation and monitor virtual environments efficiently. It facilitates automated decision-making in VM sizing, load balancing, and cost optimization for both on-premises and cloud deployments. Users can leverage insights for workload placement, ensure peak performance assurance, and effectively right-size across VMware and Azure. The ongoing transition to HTML5 aims to improve visual and navigational ease, while expanded reporting features are anticipated. Opportunities for improved training, documentation, and integrations enhance platform usability and functionality.

What Are the Key Features?

Automation: Streamlines resource allocation and VM management.
Planning Tools: Supports capacity management and growth projections.
Right-Sizing: Optimizes VM configurations for efficient resource use.
Customizable Dashboards: Provides quick insights into environment health.
Reporting Capabilities: Offers valuable data for informed decision-making.
Cloud Integration: Ensures cost-effective resource utilization.

What Benefits Should Be Looked For?

Performance Enhancement: Improves application performance efficiency.
Cost Reduction: Minimizes operational expenses through optimizations.
Infrastructure Efficiency: Maximizes use of IT infrastructure resources.

In finance, IBM Turbonomic aids in maintaining platform efficiency during market fluctuations. Healthcare organizations leverage its capability for resource optimization during high-demand periods to enhance patient care support. Retailers use it for planning in peak seasons, ensuring resources align with fluctuating demand to maintain performance continuity.

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Sample Customers

Unimat, AeroM_xico Delta TechOps

IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.

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