IBM Turbonomic Reviews

The dashboards are fantastic. The Improve Overall Efficiency view is great in getting resources in check when the build out was over estimated.

Having Turbonomic as a resource is like having a few extra engineers dedicated to performance monitoring, getting that time back from diagnosing resource issues is a huge plus.

We wish Nimble was available as a storage provider.

We have been using Turbo for about three months.

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

None.

Customer service is exceptional, any minor issues we had were addressed as we would bring them up.

Technical support is very responsive and thorough. When initially using Turbo, technical replies would include not just recommended fixes, but also where to refer to in the documentation for the issue in question. Very helpful early on.

We were using SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. We switched because the features and ease of use were more accurate and responsive.

NA - I did not participate in the initial setup.

We used a vendor as well as Turbonomic support to get going initially.

The ROI is still to be measured, but the resources to be recouped are impressive so far.

I was not personally involved with the purchase, but I feel it was a wise decision.

We were using SolarWinds Virtualization Manager.

We have VM placement in Automated mode and currently have all other metrics in Recommend mode. We also have made use of the planning tool to project when in our migration and modernization project we would need to procure new hardware.

It has helped us to show real resource usage in order to justify or deny application owner requests for additional resources, and has helped us to rightsize our VMs to reclaim wasted CPU, memory, and disk space so we can avoid additional hardware procurement.

I like the detail I get in the old user interface and will miss some of that in the new interface when we perform our planned upgrade soon.

Six months plus an extended three-month PoC to convince our IT leadership of its usefulness.

No issues with deployment. It went very smooth.

I've had to reboot the appliance once to regain LDAP login abilities.

We've actually reduced our host footprint by using Turbonomic to rightsize things as we modernize and migrate.

Excellent customer service. We've had help with setting up custom reports and anytime we need to increase our license count it is a quick turnaround.

Excellent. Not many technical issues so far, but have been very helpful and knowledgeable. We will use them to get us migrated to 5.9 on CentOS from our current 5.7 on SUSE.

Just vCenter Server combined with years of experience with VMware to make resource determinations.

Initial setup was very straightforward. OVF download and deployment to live application in less than 30 minutes.

We implemented in-house but had a vendor team in for group training to show us how to better use the tools.

I'm not the finance guy, but being able to shrink our host footprint by 66% while increasing our virtualization would seem to me to be very advantageous.

Definitely more cost effective and with nearly the same options as other more expensive solutions. Licensing is per socket, so load up on the cores rather than a lot of lower core CPUs.

Yes we did. We evaluated vRealize Automation and while I liked some of the additional features, for what we needed it for in our environment, Turbonomic was the better choice financially.

Take advantage of the deployment team to learn the best way to use it to your advantage in your environment.

The most valuable features are automation and the single console to manage my virtual environment. Another good feature is that the alerts are in English, so my management team can address issues when I am out of the office.

The biggest improvement for us has been we have been more proactive when dealing with issues. We can even head things off before they cause any outages.

The biggest issue that I ever had was that the old interface was buggy sometimes. It doesn't always refresh without me logging off and on.

We have been using this solution for two years.

There were no issues during deployment. We had it up and running within five minutes.

I had issues once with the MySQL database. It was dealt with immediately.

We have not added any additional hosts.

Customer service has been great and anytime that I needed anything, they responded within a few minutes.

Technical support has been great. They have fixed any little bugs that I ran across.

We evaluated several different products and decided on Turbonomic for the ease of use and the amount of data we have been able to get out of the software.

The setup was straightforward. We were up and running within five minutes and pulling data.

The setup was done in-house.

The return on investment for us has not been on the monetary side. It has been helpful in being able to report better to the executives on the hardware and servers. They are able to see where we need to make improvements.

Licensing is pretty straightforward. It is similar to the VM model pricing per socket.

We looked at SolarWinds and vCOps. They were not has easy to use compared to Turbonomic.

I have used tons of software that has had a huge learning curve. Turbonomic is easy to use, but has the ability to provide much more complex data and planning for projects and growth.

Automation, reports, capacity planning, dashboards.

Due to automation of workload placements Infra Management has been more efficient and smooth. Performance check and appropriate action taken to eliminate the same. Proactive suggestions based on underlying issues have helped us a lot. Due to that, we have reduced number of Incidents and effort being spent to manage our environment.

Include more report generation options using GUI instead of queries.

Over two years.

None.

Very stable and easy to handle.

None.

Excellent, in my personal experience. Proactive, quick, and ready to help anytime.

Technically strong and ready to help for new technology integration with this tool.

Based on our hunt for finding a smart tool. This was the first one.

Very easy initial setup and support team was always there to address any issues.

In-house, directly through Turbonomic.

Enhanced Infra Performance, reduced cost by efficient hardware usage, automation of server workload placements resulting in reduced monitoring cost.

Yes, but this was cost effective and best.

Looking forward to new features and planning to utilize rightsizing of our environment.

Automation balancing work loads, and correct sizing

Helps us get the most out of the hardware we have in place.

Better QA for updates/timeline.

Two-plus years.

Deployment is an easy OVA deployment.

Login issues/Tomcat Java issues were common with older version.

No.

Support is very responsive.

Technical support is very knowledgeable and helpful.

First solution.

Simple OVA deploy and IP setup.

In-house team.

vROps.

Reporting and planning.

Capacity planning.

More reporting flexibility

2 years

No

No

No

Excellent

Great

No

Complex to get reports we wanted.

Vendor

Good

Complicated

Yes VMware.

Nice product.

• Plan what-if scenarios
• Reporting
• Real-time evaluation and recommendation of guests

We have been able to use the planning feature to consolidate VMs on few hosts and have been able to show savings of several hundred thousands.

• More insight into the OS and processes rolled into the dashboard natively.
• Add a way to pull metrics from physical servers.

Two years.

No issues experienced.

No stability issues.

The appliance has been able to handle our environment with speedy interface response.

Very proactive in engaging customer for feedback.

I have had no issues in this area.

Yes. The previous solution was used to monitor both physical and virtual environments in one solution. As we became highly virtualized the real-time monitoring and decision-making became important and Turbonomic had an edge over the previous vendor.

Very straightforward. The only downside was we lost history of prior performance.

In-house.

One year.

There are several tiers. Implement the basics, build confidence, and add more as needed.

Yes, vROps.

We are very pleased with how Turbonomic is working out in our environment.

The features most valuable are seeing over allocations, being able to automatically make changes, and determining how much new VMs would allocate resources.

Basically if there were issues with our VMs, which account for 95% of our environment, we had to wait until one of the techs would look and react to the issue. We can set up triggers to automatically handle these issues before they get any worse.

Like any software I use, I'm looking for the least amount of clicking needed to get to places. If I need to click 10 different windows to get a report, I'm done with the software. This software is very good with this, but there could always be improvements.

We have been using it for about six to eight months now.

Deployment was very easy but I advise reading the manual.

No issue with stability.

We've had no issues with scalability yet.

Customer service is very good. They are knowledgeable about the product. If they don't have the answer they will get someone who has it.

I have no complaints about tech support.

I did use something else and I was able to get the information I was looking for. If the data I'm looking for is 15 windows away, there's no way I'm using it.

If you are familiar with the VM product you're using, then setup shouldn't be a problem.

We went through in-house. Their knowledge was very good.

Less downtime due to small issues becoming big because we didn't see them. Also, the VMs are running at their optimal performance.

Pricing is a little on the high side but you get what you pay for.

I looked at some others but would like not to put names out there. Just know we though this was the best solution.

This is not a set it and forget product. You will have to look at what is going on and have a plan.