IBM Turbonomic Reviews

• VM Right-Sizing
• Project Cluster Resource
• Load Balancing

On a quarterly basis we take the VM right-sizing report and, based on the Turbonomic recommendation, we make the changes to resources. So far, no issues reported and it allows us to right-size our VM and use the resources properly. Along with that, the Projected Cluster report enables us to share the monthly report for capacity planning.

I know form v5.7 it supported RDM LUN, but it shows very few details. It would be great if Turbonomic allowed us to get the report for VM with RDM with its compatibility mode.

Like vROPS, which allows you to dig more into VM performance issues and provides the details to get to the root cause, if Turbonomic would do that that nothing would be better.

Two years.

Nothing as of now.

Nothing as of now.

Nothing as of now.

Nine out of 10.

Nine out of 10.

I used vROPS, vFoglight but not in BCBSRI.

Setup of Turbonomic is straightforward and easy to deploy.

In-house

NA

As compared with vROPS, licensing cost is less.

NA

Turbonomics is doing great in enhancing their product.

After configuring the automation it has kept the VMware clusters balanced.

Performance of all hosts have improved.

The GUI is not always user friendly and some settings are not where you would expect.

Approximately three years.

I had full support from the Turbonomics group. They assisted with the install and configuration. Great company to work with.

It's been a very stable product.

It easily handles the environment.

Customer service has always been exceptional.

Technical support has been very quick to respond and very knowledgeable.

No, this was our first monitoring/management tool for the virtualized environment.

Pretty straightforward.

We were assisted by a vendor team; very knowledgeable.

That's difficult to comment on. I know its a very valuable product to us, but can't put a dollar value to that.

It's not the cheapest but it's a very good product for the cost.

Yes we looked at SolarWinds.

They are a great company to work with and have delivered a great product.

Provides automation of balancing workloads on ESXi hosts. With a fully automated environment, I never need to worry about host resource utilization or guest resource consumption. Guests are migrated between hosts and datastores to balance resource load. Resources on guests are automatically sized up and down as the demand increases or decreases.

The number one improvement is that Turbonomic gives me more free time in my day to address other concerns. I no longer have to worry about host and guest resource utilization, because it is all handled for me behind the scenes.

There is an area where new workloads can be created and placed. I've had trouble with that feature and find it easier to create new machines directly in vCenter and let it get the address by Turbonomic after the fact.

We have been using this solution for two years.

There were no issues with deployment. The deployment was exceptionally easy and support was readily available when I needed it.

There were no issues with scalability.

There were no issues with scalability.

I would give customer service a rating of 15/10!

Technical support has been exceptional.

There was no prior solution.

It was a very straightforward setup, as far as getting the product running. It got a little bit complex defining rules for my specific environment. For instance, "don't auto-resize machines whose name is like "nnnnnnn". Tweaking the rules to fit my odd needs was complex, but the support team breezed right through it for me.

Implementation was done by an in-house team.

This has not been calculated.

The pricing is transparent and straightforward. It is on a per-socket model.

We did not evaluate other options.

We like the option to create our own dashboards for each team member. Also the availability for Turbonomic to migrate my machines around in my environment makes my job easier.

I no longer have to keep my vSphere Client open to monitor constantly. I let the product move machines to new hosts and change datastores as needed for best overall performance. And all of this is based on best practice from Turbonomic and a few tweaks on our end.

The product needs tighter integration points with storage vendors, the mainstream top 5-6 are added but it would be nice to see more.

Additional reporting and alerting would be great additions as well.

A little over a year, solution works great!

We had this software up and running within a few minutes. We got followup help from the Turbonomic team and everything went smooth.

At first we ran into some workload issues where the software managed items we didn't want included; we were able to make adjustments to correct this issue. At times the VM-OVA has to be restarted due to changes within product.

None at all, we have a lot of hosts and VMs and the OVA file we deployed scaled perfectly.

Top notch customer service. They follow up with you as needed to make sure the product works as expected, send emails when new updates are available and support has resolved any issues we ran into immediately.

As stated above, support has always been quick to assist and resolve any issues we ran into.

No previous solution. At the time no other vendors offered a similar product, other than Veeam.

Straightforward, took less than an hour to completely install and configure baselines. Within a couple days all tweaks were in place and it ran great.

In-house with assistance from Turbonmic support team. Smooth process.

At this time our largest ROI is not having to spend constant hours watching our VM environment.

Cost effective solution that works.

We did not.

Keep up the great work and keep the new features coming. We are excited to see what happens in the next 12 months with advancements.

The economic algorithm is a brilliant way to measure supply vs. demand of virtual machine resource needs. It is this idea that makes Turbonomic perform better than the rest.

We use it to keep our virtual landscape balanced and bottleneck free. When we enabled automatic guest balancing within Turbonomic, our complaints about slow VM's dropped over 90%.

They need an updated UI - perhaps HTML5? The dashboard could use a cosmetic update.

Several years.

No, it deployed and worked flawlessly.

No, it's there whenever we need to login.

We've had a few issues upgrading and getting things working the way would we like, but Turbonomic has been very supportive to allocate knowledgeable resources to address them quickly.

Great. Turbonomic knows what it can do - and what it can't.

We used built in tools to try and balance workloads - it wasn't as good.

Initial setup is fairly straightforward. We deployed a virtual machine - configured it to our vCenters - and that was pretty much it.

We did the intial deployment in house - we've had Turbonomic onsite to help us tune the product to our specifications.

The ROI has been unquantifiable. The tools within the product have been great for our administrative team. I recommend the product highly.

Pricing has changed considerably since we purchased the product several years ago.

No

If you need a product that can automate workload balancing, capacity planning, reporting of resource use - Turbonomic is a fantastic choice.

Automating the resource balancing. It let's us know when we need another host to keep things running smooth and fast.

It forced us to organize and standardize our storage environment - making smaller, generic datastores that had an unintended benefit of making the backups faster.

The interface could be a little cleaner and navigation a little easier. (note: this has improved in version upgrades since I first wrote this review!)

3 years.

No. We did have to clean up our storage before allowing it to make automatic decisions on storage commodities.

Never.

No.

The folks at Turbonomic love what they do and it shines through. I have never had a bad encounter with anyone there. They are very responsive to any needs we have and have even called to do a health check-up!

Excellent. I needed help one time upgrading to the latest version and installing our own branding and the tech walked me through both things in 10 minutes!

No. We looked at several and no one is in their league!

We had no problems and the installation folks were there just in case they were needed.

In-house.

You could take the number of hours per tech that no longer has to administer and babysit machines and resources, add the money saved by maximizing the hardware you have to its fullest potential, then add the labor saved in forecasting and the product pays for itself in the first year easily!

It is worth every penny you spend on it. Also, you can "deny" it from seeing hosts and environments that you don't want managed (ie DEV).

Yes. I remember Foglight being a long distant second.

I like to say "Set it and forget it". It has never made a bad decision. It obeys all rules you have in place in VMware. The reporting is fantastic and the forecasting has made the budgeting nightmare much easier in this area.

Like the rest of us, you will be hesitant to turn on "automagic" provisioning but you will be wondering why it took you so long to do so shortly after!

The most valuable features are the planning tool, the policy engine, workload charts, and the extensive library of dashboards.

We use Turbonomic to fully optimize the use of our infrastructure. We also use it for health checks and assessments we perform for our customers.

The current UI (Adobe Flash) is very clunky and inefficient; however, their new HTML5 UI (in Demo mode) will be GA in late 2017.

I have used it for two years.

We have not encountered any deployment issues. It went very smoothly. You can deploy the OVA/QCOW2 file to multiple hypervisor platforms or use a RHEL distribution instead.

Aside from the Flash-based UI needing to be refreshed, it is very stable.

One Turbonomic instance supports up to 10,000 VMs, so no, scalability was not an issue.

Customer service is great.

Technical support is great.

I have used vRealize Operations Manager a lot for VMware solution monitoring. I changed to Turbonomic because it is a vendor-agnostic platform that can be used for monitoring, but really is an automation and control platform for optimizing your entire environment.

Initial setup was straightforward: deploy OVA, assign IP address, log in as administrator, configure your targets, done. You can be up and going within 60 minutes.

An in-house team implemented it.

I typically see a 30%-40% ROI in the first year.

Try the solution out; it is easy to set up and the first 30 days are free. After that, scope your requirements and talk to Turbonomic about the cost of the solution and then NEGOTIATE a discount.

Before choosing this product, we evaluate d VMware vROps, ManageEngine AppManager, and OpManager.

Try it out for free and see how quickly it can optimize your environment.

Reporting, Dashboards & DRS.

Helped us right size a number of VMs and helped reduce CPU ready time.

Maybe a cleaner backend. HTML5?

Over 1 year.

No issues. Simple to deploy. The team helped set up the appliance and were quick to help with any custom requests.

No issues yet.

No.

Very good. Very quick response times.

Very good. Knowledgeable staff.

No.

It was fairly straightforward to set up and anything we could not figure out ourselves the team had a solution for us very quickly.

In house/directly with VMTurbo.

It is an expensive product so we have only licenced the critical hosts in production. Some of the features may not work if your VMware hosts are not licenced. Features such as DRS will not work unless you have a cluster licenced for DRS in VMware. Therefore the workload placement VMTurbo tries to carry out will not work as the VMs will not migrate.

Yes, vROPS.