IBM Turbonomic Reviews

We have always used Turbonomic as a true DRS solution over the provided VMware vCenter service.

Turbonomic has allowed us to achieve greater density with optimal performance to our hosted consumers. The ability to extend Dynamic Resource Allocation across clusters has been our new endeavor with VMTurbo that has optimized our capacity, performance and allowed us to scale outside the limitations of vCenter.

We are able to balance loads across clusters automatically, versus the very manual calculation and migration process without VMTurbo.

I would like to see the UI become a little more clean but have no suggestion on how to make it better.

I have used it for two years but the company has been using VMTurbo for around four.

Automatic resource use optimization

We spend much less time trying to figure out how best to distribute VMs, and how much horsepower to give each one.

Better alerting and reporting.

Two years.

No.

No.

No.

Very good.

Very good.

No, unless you count VMware's built in DRS functionality.

It was straightforward.

In-house.

Hard to put a number on it, but I'd say we use our resources much more efficiently now.

I find their economics-based algorithms fascinating. It works brilliantly.

Workload performance analysis.

We have been experiencing VM guest performance issues for months. We tried many things including adding more hardware to no avail. Within a week of running Turbonomic we were able to see clearly which guest systems needed to be resized and, especially, moved to other nodes within our clusters to obtain the optimal performance.

So far the application has been delivering as marketed. Once we can customize our dashboards to our liking, it will be much easier to identify where we need to focus on improving our infrastructure.

Two months.

None.

None.

None.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Dell Foglight.

Very straightforward, we were up and running in less than half an hour.

In-house.

Capacity planning as been most beneficial, as we are looking to upgrade our virtualization infrastructure and now we have a much clearer picture as to what hardware will be needed. I expect the ROI to be immediate as we save on hardware and virtualization license costs.

Licensing is easy to understand when you have an existing environment but determining growth or greenfield implementations may be difficult to get the right amount of licensing.

VMware vRealize.

Great product, can't wait to set to auto drive and let it do its magic.

The ability to monitor and automate both the right-sizing of VMs as well as to automate the vMotion of VMs across ESXi hosts to insure that all resources are being utilized at peak efficiency.

We no longer have to continuously monitor our virtual environment through multiple interfaces (WhatsUp Gold, Veeam ONE, vSphere, etc.) to discover issues impairing performance. We now receive three separate reports every morning, one showing any actions that Turbonomic attempted to make which failed that lets us know what we need to look at; one showing recommended actions which we have designated within Turbonomic to be manually performed; and one showing all datastore utilization over 85%. All from a single product and all visible from a single pane of glass. With the capacity planning feature, it allows us to accurately determine the proper sizing for our replacement hosts while projecting for a rate of growth specified by us.

Mostly the dashboard. While the product is fairly intuitive and easy to use once you learn it, it can be quite daunting until you have undergone a bit of training. With the newest version, the dashboard has gotten even more "intimidating", at least to me.

Approximately one year.

Deployment was extremely easy and straightforward. When setting up custom automation rules, a member of Turbonomic's support team initiated a WebEx and reviewed all of the rules looking for any errors as well as suggesting some additional custom rules based on how we wanted Turbonomic to operate. That's one of the great things about Turbonomic, it is almost endlessly customizable so you can configure it to work in your environment as opposed having to tailor your environment to work with the tool.

No issues at all.

None.

The customer service of Turbonomic has been excellent.

Technical support have been very good.

We previously used a combination of Veeam ONE and WhatsUp Gold to monitor our virtual environment. We switched due to Turbonomic's automation ability. Its ability to monitor and manage practically all virtualization technologies (Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix XenServer, and with the release of version 5.9, most public cloud platforms as well), and the ability to see everything from a single pane of glass.

Initial setup was pretty straightforward.

Implementation was performed through an in-house team with Turbonomic staff available for WebEx for assistance.

In precise dollar amounts, unknown. Having said that, Turbonomic has freed up our staff to devote more time to project implementation and expansion, as opposed to manually monitoring our environment.

Contact the Turbonomic sales team, explain your needs and what you're looking to monitor. They will get a pre-sales SE on the phone and together work up a very accurate quote.

We didn't evaluate other options. We were already using other monitoring tools and switched from them to Turbonomic.

Great product! We were able to correctly size our VMs giving back CPU, memory, and storage capacity to be used in other projects. We can now reclaim license costs and forecast future resource needs.

• For report scheduling, lacks the ability to define the time of day when the report was run.
• Needs to be easier ways to define N+1 capacity when looking at cluster statistics.
• Can't wait for the HTML 5 version. The flash sometimes has response issues. 

We have been using this product for over a year.

We had issues when trying to deploy the solution on a Linux VM. We ended up abandoning it. Instead, we used the Turbonomic packaged SUSE instance. We had no issues with that deployment.

Occasionally after changes in our environment, we often needed to restart the Tomcat service on the instance.

There were no issues with scalability.

Customer service was great. They were always responsive.

We did not use a previous solution.

The installation was very straightforward.

We implemented this solution in-house.

We evaluated vRealize Operations.

Automating VM moves.

Previously we had no automated VM moves, which meant some of our VM hosts would be overloaded and others would be under utilized.

Finding help can be difficult if needed. Most times we will just call Turbonomic rather than search through the user guides and forums for help on an issue. Better alerting features would be helpful as well.

Two years.

No issues with deployment. With upgrades, we have always had assistance from Turbonomic to make sure everything is smooth.

None.

None.

Excellent. My rep always stays in touch and keeps us in the loop when changes are coming.

Excellent. They seem to be very responsive to any issues that have come up. They stay engaged until there is a solution in place.

No previous solution.

I didn't handle the initial setup of this product. I inherited it. For upgrades they seem fairly straightforward, but we have always had Turbonomic assist in upgrades.

Not in initial implementation, but for upgrades we use Turbonomic support to help us and have great results.

Automated sizing and moves for VMs based on real-time usage statistics.

Capacity planning for purchasing new hardware.

It has freed up space on our VMware hosts to allow optimized utilization of our resources.

The only area of improvement that I can think of is re-sizing recommendations are not able to be based upon working hours of a day or typical load times. So you have a VM that gets pounded from 7am - 4pm, but then pretty much goes dormant. Turbonomic makes its recommendation over a 24-hour period, not during time windows you can specify. You do, however, have the option to restrict automated resizing actions within a certain window (so Turbonomic doesn't resize during peak times). I just wish there was a way to base resizing recommendations during a snapshot window instead of a 24-hour period.

Two years and just renewed for a third.

No issues at all, was pretty straightforward to get up and running. Plus the support team was nothing short of excellent!

No issues at all.

None.

10-plus. Everyone at Turbonomic we've worked with has been top-notch and extremely knowledgeable about their product.

10-plus, same as above!

No we did not. Found Turbonomic at a conference and was impressed with their solution and ran with it.

Straightforward, extremely user friendly.

In-house.

I don't have a dollar number handily available, but as mentioned before it has definitely freed up server resources, giving us space back on our hosts.

Reach out to the Turbonomic team directly and work with your local rep so that you can get the best solution/pricing available to you.

We didn't evaluate any other vendors.

If you're looking for a solution to give you a deeper dive into how your VM environment is being utilized and to provide some optimization; then you can't go wrong with Turbonomic!

Reporting is a great feature. Also how it can automate easy tasks so you are not burdened with them.

Gives me more time to spend on real issues.

The GUI could be more user friendly, and more CMD applets should be created or shared with the community.

Two years.

No.

No.

No.

Great. Always very helpful, above and beyond most companies.

Always very knowledgeable the few times I had to call.

No.

Yes, just load the OVA, assign an IP, import your inf.

Vendor team, easy implementation.

Not sure, I do not deal with the money aspect.

After the first year the costs are very reasonable.

No.

This software has helped me ease my morning burden of adding/removing CPU and storage vMotions.