IBM Turbonomic Reviews

Easy to use central management of resources and report capabilities.

Ongoing process. Overview, scaleability and resource usage.

Better hardware utilization and point VM and apps on demand to better working places.

We are in implementation phase.

No.

No.

No.

Eight out of 10.

Not necessary so far.

No.

Ongoing.

In-house.

No comment.

No comment.

No.

Not yet.

Automated and intelligent vMotions, VM right-sizing, storage capacity optimization, reporting, and planning.

We automate our vMotions, so it has helped us keep congestion on our hosts way down, and has been more effective than DRS. We also have used wasted storage report to reclaim over 2TB of storage from orphaned files that would have had to have been manually located before. Turbonomic has also helped with workload and capacity planning, allowing us to be more accurate with requesting expansion during budgeting.

I'd like to see an improvement in the reporting, from including more canned reports, to being able to more easily customize the existing ones (without needing to write SQL queries).

About one year.

None.

Here and there, during some older revisions. Since the 5.7 update (I believe) it's been pretty solid. Our issues seemed to relate to the discovery process and inventory, but we haven't had issues for several months now.

Nothing so far.

Very good. When I've opened cases, I get contacted quickly, and am able to work with an engineer fairly quickly. I've also posted questions and non-critical items on the Green Circle community (Turbonomic's user community), and many times I've gotten quick response from our account manager and engineers.

Very good as well.

No.

Very straightforward. It was as simple as loading an OVA, setting the networking, and pointing it at our vCenter. Tweaks have been made over time as needed, but the initial setup was quick and painless.

In-house team, with some recommendations from Turbonomic engineers.

I don't have an exact number, but we have saved lots of time on troubleshooting performance issues.

Nothing specific, just to only license what you need. For us, we license only our production environment. It would be at least a 25% increase if we licensed our development/test environment too.

We evaluated Foglight and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager before deciding on Turbonomic (or VMTurbo at the time).

No.

We love the custom dashboards. We use them on the TV above our desks and it helps us keep an eye on the environment.

We no longer have to worry about our hosts being over/under provisioned. Turbonomic just evaluates the VMs and moves them for us. It's one less thing that we have to worry about.

Continued development for Hyper-V and additional storage vendor integration too.

We have had the solution for about a year.

We didn't have any issues with deployment.

We did see a few issues on a previous version with reporting. However, their support team was great and had a solution from the developers quickly.

We have not had any issues with scalability.

Customer service has been excellent. We did a very lengthy PoC and they were always willing to answer questions quickly and to offer up ideas about how to tackle issues in our environment.

Technical support has also been excellent. Any time we have a question or concern, we always get a quick and thorough response. We don't dread calling for help like with other solutions we have.

We didn't have a previous solution in place.

The install was very straightforward. I don't think it took more than an hour to implement.

The implementation was in-house.

I don't have numbers at this time for ROI, but I do know that we have been able to utilize our hosts more efficiently, and that's huge.

The solution was well worth the cost for us. It allows our admins to function on the other pieces of our environment.

We didn't evaluate any other options.

If you want to keep a detailed eye on your environment, and also pass off some of the administration to automation, Turbonomic is a great reliable platform for you.

The automation of vStorage migration, ability to create dashboards and the rightsizing recommendations. We also like the planning and forecasting features.

We have used the planning feature to retire ESXi hosts and move hosts from one datacenter to another. The planning feature told us how many ESXi hosts we needed to move based on the needed VM resources. We have also used the rightsizing recommendations on some VMs and plan on using it more extensively.

We have an instance of Turbonomic for our Azure environment that we're working with Turbonimic on. Many of the current recommendations are inaccurate. We've also experienced some issues with setting our storage up in Turbonomic with our "on prem" environment. In both instances, Turbonomic has been diligently working with us.

About six months.

Deployment for our on-prem solution was straightforward and easy to install. Our Azure deployment was not as easy, but I wasn't involved in that installation.

The platform has been stable during our involvement with it.

No.

We have had great experience with Turbonomic customer service.

We have had quick response for any technical support that was required. So far, I'm satisfied with the level of technical support.

No.

Straightforward. Upgrades are easy as well.

In-house, with assistance from Turbonomic.

We have been able to decommission some older hardware. We expect more ROI as we continue to right-size our environment.

I wasn't involved in the pricing or licensing.

No.

None at this time.

Load balancing, reporting, dashboards, and capacity planning.

We no longer have to worry about cluster management, even in an environment with multiple hypervisor vendors.

Not quite used to the new UI.

Four years.

None. And support has assisted over the years, as our infrastructure has grown and evolved from one hypervisor vendor to another.

None.

None.

Nine out of 10 (because no one is perfect).

Nine out of 10 (because no one is perfect).

Nagios.

Simple.

Me, myself, and I.

It is hard to count the amount of time it has saved over the years.

Simple per processor, typical of a hypervisor based product.

eG Innovations, Nagios, Cacti, openstack, vRealize SCVMM.

As a MSP, a hidden gem is the planning guide. I use it for sales guys to determine if they need to purchase any new CPU nodes, for quotes they are preparing for potential clients.

The most valuable feature would have to be the out of box automation of VM placement. Without too much configuration, the dynamic and autonomous optimization provided by Turbonomic virtual machine placement is impressive.

With over 2500 ESX VMs, including 1500+ XenDesktop VDI desktops, hosted over two datacentres and 80+ vSphere hosts, firefighting has become something of the past.

All eight of our vCentre clusters happily run hot at 90+% utilization with n+1 redundancy.

With over two and a half years of Turbonomic in operation, we are now using the planner functionality for an ongoing datacenter consolidation project. The accuracy of our initial planner results again have been impressive, and this will allow us to project investment costs in detail and with confidence.

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.

Including a four month pre-sales led PoC, Turbonomic has been in production just under three years.

Some minor reporting related issues with our initial production versions, which were promptly resolved by Turbonomic support.

No issues with stability, since we moved Turbonomic into production.

Again, we have not come across any issues here.

Customer service is very good and proactive, with the customer experience team keeping in touch regularly.

With only some minor issues, technical support for us has been very good.

SolarWinds Virtualisation Manager, more of a reporting engine, and lacking any preventive optimization functionality.

We moved to Turbonomic for its performance automation. The included reporting and alerting ability is a nice to have, but more or less obsolete.

The initial OVA based setup, including setting up one or two service accounts, took less than 20 minutes. I believe that our vSphere environment was discovered in less than an hour.

After registering for an extended trial license, the implementation was done by our in-house team under continuous support from Turbonomic consulting.

As part of the implementation, Turbonomic provided our business with detailed ROI projections based on our "live" Turbonomic data. By now, cost savings, by guided hardware consolidation and freeing up engineering resources, are very favorable, as projected.

What I can advise is to trial the product, taking advantage of the Turbonomic pre-sales implemention support and kickstart training.

Yes, we ran a short trial of Dell Foglight for Virtualisation.

Turbonomics ability to present suggested improvements, and enact those changes upon approval, have been very helpful in our environment. We are able to right-size VMs and host resources to save money and provide services to the business.

We have saved money by not having to purchase Enterprise (including DRS) and no longer having to manually balance VMs in a cluster.

The interface has so much to offer, it is a bit complex and there is a learning curve. However, they are more than happy to spend time teaching you to use the product.

Over one year

None

None

None

Excellent

Excellent

No

No

We set it up with Tubonomic's help.

We are saving money and time, so it is good.

For our organization, the key feature/benefit is allowing us to better utilize available resources. Prior to Turbonomic, rightsizing a VM could be tricky. Often the software vendors or application owners overestimated specs. This left us with wasted resources.

It allows us to rightsize VMs. While scaling down is critical, it is also important to scale up when needed. Turnbonomic monitors your environment and reacts automatically. If a VM needs more vCPU or memory, it gets it automatically. No need for manual intervention. When Turbonomic observes a downward trend and it appears that your VM no longer needs those resources, they can be taken away automatically.

We would like to see more integration with storage platforms. Our vendor of choice is not supported.

Six-plus months.

None.

None.

None.

They're great. We haven't had many issues, but when we do they have been very responsive.

Excellent.

Not at this level. We evaluated other solutions and chose Turbonomic.

We opted to have trainers come onsite. They first worked with us remotely to set it up.

We worked with the vendor's staff. They helped with training and setup. They are really top notch.

TBD.

Pricing is a bit high IMHO. Our hope is that this solution will delay some planned hardware purchases by allowing us to resize according to true demand.

SolarWinds and Veeam One.