IBM Turbonomic Reviews

Workload placement. The "financial" idea works very well, and has allowed us to reduce our infrastructure footprint significantly without impacting performance.

I seem to find a new bug with each new version. It's software, so I can understand, but I think the QA process needs improved.

Approximately two years.

No issues with deployment.

No stability issues.

Not yet.

I've been impressed with the customer service team's desire to help and keep things smooth.

Technical support is excellent. The support crew work very hard to ensure that we have what we need, from basic information and support, to getting custom SQL queries written.

We previously used Reflex/StrataCloud. We moved for the ease of use and the workload placement functionality.

Initial setup was performed by a teammate who has moved on, but as I recall, it was a straightforward process.

In-house.

I'm not able to speak to this. I don't have the financial data to determine a real ROI. I don't believe it's been as high as the sales team initially claimed it would be, but that's at least partly due to our environments. It's not easy to make rightsizing decisions in an environment where applications may not always be running on a box.

Take the time to evaluate the complete suite. The base package does a lot, but there are several modules that make the product more complete end to end, and are at least worth investigating.

We did not. The teammate mentioned previously had used the product in a prior role and was able to convince the required parties of the tool's value.

The auto resource leveling on my hyper-v cluster saves my staff so much time on monitoring and performance tuning.

Server staff gained 4 hours a week in time they did not have to devote to items other than watching a hyper-v cluster utilization.

This product works well. Only thing I would say is to add tie in with more storage vendors like Nimble.

We have had the solution for 2 years now.

Deployment was very smooth, as have been upgrades.

We have not had any issues with stability of the product or causing unintended crashes of other parts of the virtual systems.

We have not reached the limit scaling yet.

Customer service is excellent.

Can not comment on tech support as we have not needed it.

First and only solution my company has used.

Simple setup that was easy enough for a sales person to do.

Our in-house team implemented the solution in an afternoon.

Payback on staff hours was 4 months.

Get what you need plus enough for another server or two.

We had read about many other products and our thought, based on other peers' experience, was that this was the best solution for the money.

None.

• Load Balancing
• Resource reclamation

With Turbonomic we are using our hardware resources more efficiently.

Turbonomic needs to find how to have the appliance OS up to date. Per our security tool, it has missing patches.

A real central management console to manage all the instances from one place.

Three months.

No, if you use the VMturbo appliance, you can have the tool running in a couple of hours.

No.

No.

The customer service is very good. They fixed all our issues and they are always ready to help.

Very good.

No.

Easy to deploy.

In-house, with Turbonomic's assistance

There are three main areas that that we find priceless. The automation, planning/forecasting and reporting.

The reporting has allowed us to quickly evaluate our VM infrastructure and where we stand on a day to day basis. The planning/forcasting feature has allowed us to plan for additional hardware. At times, it has saved us lots of money when we did not need to purchase additional hardware even though we thought we would.

The new HTML5 version is not as user friendly as I had hoped.

We've had Turbonomic deployed for about 12 months now - plus the initial trial period.

Deployment was very straightforward. Transition from trial to fully licensed was just as simple

Turbonomic has been very stable. Honestly, we forget it's even running, until we need to look at a report or have growth/expansion plans for our infrastructure.

No, we have not. Initially we used it for our Production Cluster but have recently expanded it to our SQL Cluster without issue.

They are fast, polite and knowledgable.

They are on par with customer service; fast, polite and knowledgable.

No, we did not use anything beforehand.

Straightforward with no issues.

implemented in-house.

It has saved us from buying lots of hardware that we would have bought if it weren't for Turbonomic. The planning/forcasting tool is the most valuable feature. This feature alone will pay for itself because it saves you from purchasing unneeded hardware in the first year alone.

The pricing is very competitive and much cheaper than VMware.

VMware Operations Manager.

Any company with a virtual infrastructure should have Turbonomic.

I am able to balance my VMs across all my hosts in my cluster. Also it can help with right-sizing both memory and vCPU.

It allows for automation thus freeing my time to do other projects.

It would be nice if it was easier to remove a host from that we would not want to manage (licenses).

Five years.

None.

None.

None.

I haven't had to use it much, but the couple of times I called, it was taken care of right away.

Very good.

No.

Setup was very straightforward.

In-house.

The software is very cost effective, especially in comparison to other products.

VMware vRealize.

I love the product.

We've been able to balance our environment with much more automated ease than was previously possible.

They could do with a little less UI clutter.

3 years.

None.

None.

Turbonomic is fantastic at scalability! It has great built in tools to plan scaling.

5/5 stars, Turbonomic representatives are always available and friendly!

5/5 stars, representatives have always been able to rapidly address any technical concern and get any changes up and running when we need them!

Very straightforward, we were able to easily import the VMWare appliance to our environment.

Starting from the reporting and recommendations, every feature has been very helpful. Even when we decided to not fully automate it, now we have a lot more visibility into what is happening, on a single pane of glass.

We use the tool to properly size the virtual servers and get a lot of resources back, while reducing the Ready time, so that was like winning twice.

I would like to have a report to see all the snapshots.

About a year now.

No issues at all. That was the goal since the first call: please don't bring me something else to manage that will take forever to be in place. Thirty minutes on the phone and the tool was working.

No.

No.

Excellent.

Great too. Didn't go to anybody who didn't knew what was doing. Sometimes when you call to support, you get that feeling that the guy is not following you or does not have a clue what you're asking for. That never happens with their support.

No tool before.

Very straightforward. Thirty minutes on the phone and the tool was working.

In-house.

Not calculated yet, but definitively positive, since we recoup a lot of resources.

They are very flexible on how to make it happen.

No.

Great tool, easy to recommend.

• Visibility of all workloads, whether on-premises or Azure environments

• Control of workloads to assure performance and deliver service levels

• Enforcement of compliance policies across a hybrid cloud

Have the best practices recommendations to optimize our VM environment.

The arithmetic for optimizing the resource of VMs based on the workload.

Some of workload are by a monthly basis. Need to consider the month-end or Q-end workload.

More than three years.

No.

No.

No.

Very cool.

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

Veeam MP for VMware, with SCOM 2012 R2.

Now we are still using this solution as our major monitoring system.

It was simple.

Not sure.

No advice.

As I said, Veeam MP for VMware.