IBM Turbonomic Reviews

We utilize the Turbonomics product to increase our VM density on our VDI clusters.

This product has extended the life of our HW and allowed us to get more utilization out of the existing HW before needing to add hosts to the cluster.

Would like some better canned reports allowing for average utilization of VMs in the environment during a defined range of hours.

2 years.

No.

Some minor issues once in a while with versions - remediated quickly with an update.

No.

Fantastic - any time we've had a problem or needed to get a specific set of information out of the tool, they've helped.

10 out of 10

No.

Both, you can do a lot with it out of the box, but you can also get quite advanced with managing the environment.

In House.

- Cluster Projections, Capacity and Planning

- Impact Summary

- VM Maintenance Automation

Getting a better understanding on host utilization, providing better planning on infrastructure upgrades.

vCenter integration. Would love to have the ability to manager the infrastructure within one window.

3-4 years

None.

None.

None.

On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest -> 10

On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest -> 10

No.

Straightforward.

In-house.

None.

Auto Load balancing via the homegrown engine that Turbonomic uses.

Limits the amount of time I have to spend staring at a screen to find bottlenecks and slowdowns in my virtual environment. The ability at one glance to see what machines are over provisioned or under provisioned and the ability to adjust that with just a click.

User interface could use a bit of tweaking.

None whatsoever.

No.

No.

Exceptional, customer service and support is amazing!

Very high, I have had numerous training and question calls with tech support and everyone on the team knows exactly what they are talking about.

We have run earlier version of vROPS, and Foglight.

The install was clean and simple, tailoring it to our environment didn't take much but does take some thought.

We implemented in-house with the use of Turbonimics legendary support.

I've found that the automation of moving VMs for resource allocation is second to none. Excellent feature that makes my life a lot easier.

This product allows me to do other things while it takes care of all the "grunt" work. It also allows me to pull up reports in PDF format as needed, with ease.

This is a very powerful tool that we don't use to its fullest, mostly due to the GUI. If it can be a bit more user friendly and easier to manipulate, I may be able to use the other powerful features it provides.

We've been using Turbonomics for about a year now.

Deployment was smooth and easy.

No issues. Very stable product.

Only because of licensing, since the model we have is per Core.

Excellent.

Excellent.

None.

Straightforward and easy.

In-house team.

Make sure you account for future cores, if this is still the licensing model.

No.

The planning and automation capabilities are great. Workload placement and right-sizing recommendations are best in the industry.

We are able to maintain a higher level of performance & efficiency in our virtual environment.

We would like to see Turbonomics dive into JVMs and continue to work with HP in the integration with HP OneView 3.0. This would provide a better overall picture of the physical infrastructure layer.

2 years

No issues. Support has been great in configuring specific requirements in our environment.

No

No

Excellent!

The setup is very straightforward. Deploy the VM from their OVA file and within 30 minutes you're up and running and ready to automate workload placement.

In-house implementation.

We have easily saved tens of thousands of dollars over the last 2 years by enabling right-sizing and automated workload placement.

Load the demo and see the recommendations. You'll be blown away by how over-provisioned your virtual machines are.

The automated moving of VM's to hosts that provide the best performance is awesome along with the right-sizing of the VM automatically save a tremendous amount of time.

Our CPU ready used to be off the charts, after just a day or two, Turbonomic had it all fixed and users were very happy.

Automatic upgrades that are hands off would be great, however the upgrades are pretty easy and take only a few minutes.

5+ years

Deployment is dead simple, point it to vCenter, give it credentials and you're done.

None, very stable product.

Nope.

10/10. Anytime you call for support, they know exactly what the issue is.

Great - 10/10

Dead simple.

I did it by myself

The product paid for itself within 30 days.

Speak with a rep.

No.

If you don't at least try it, you'll never know how much better things could be.

One of the most valuable tools we encountered with Turbonomic was not even the automation tool we bought it for, but the sizing tool.  We used it when we did our hardware refresh and it was able to tell us how many servers we would need based on our environment.  It helped us save a lot of money and not overbuy.

The balancing features on Turbonomic help keep our environment running fast and more efficiently over even DRS and sDRS.  In fact one the best performance features is the rightsizing tool, to either increase or decrease sizes of specific VM's.  Again this can save money, but also allows our clusters to perform much more reliably with little to no CPU Ready.

I would like to see more integration with 3rd parties.  For example, I would like to be able to provision more storage from Turbonomic, not just have it tell me I need more.

I've used this solution for about 3 years now.

Easiest deployment ever, install it, give it an IP, point it to vCenter and you're done.

Turbonomic has some very useful features like being able to link multiple clusters together to for a super cluster allow us to balance out our load as needed. We also have started using the automation available in Turbonomic to automate some of our workloads that have been virtualized.

From a engineer perspective the ability to automate and show what is being used and what is really needed has helped us gain traction with virtualization. Also allowing application teams to login to Turbonomic and scope them to their servers has been a very valuable tool for us.

I think the UI could be cleaned up some which I know they are working on. I have seen the demo and it looks good from what I have seen so far. Also reporting needs to be worked on, the lack of ability to edit a report has been a challenge. Also vROps has better canned reports.

2 years now.

Deployment is almost two easy. We have been working through challenges with the storage module but support continues to push through that to find out what my real issue is there.

Product has been stable since the install.

None.

Customer service has been amazing, the guys on the tech teams have been available and helpful every time we have had an issue.

Very good technical support.

vCOPS

Install is almost to easy and the tool is up and running in no time.

We installed the appliance.

Automation in the form of virtual machine migrations in VMware vCenter.

Automation, policies, and reports have made a lot of previously manual work now either more efficient or completely automated.

I would like to see the new HTML5 web interface released soon. In using the preview, it looks very promising.

Three years.

No issues.

We did have an issue certain build causing the database to fill up however technical support was very helpful in getting updated to a newer version to correct this issue.

No issues.

Excellent. All my interactions have been timely and efficient.

Excellent. All my interactions have been timely and efficient.

It was very straightforward. The OVA file was simply imported into vSphere and turned. Following that it was just a matter of a few simple networking configurations.

In-house.

I do not have access to specific figures however I do see a definite return in the form of administrator time.

None.

Turbonomic is very unique and lends many strengths to further augment my virtual infrastructure.

For us, the monitoring features, as well as the right-sizing recommendations and reports have been the most valuable.

It helps us stay on top of the health of our virtual infrastructure, make near-real-time decisions on how to fine-tune and adjust our infrastructure, and lets us be proactive in our approach.

The appliance interface doesn’t list the features/capabilities that licenses can be purchased for, so unless you were directly involved in the negotiations. Purchasing of the appliance, there is no way to tell what feature set you have. An example would be the network control module. There’s no way to tell, just from looking at the interface, whether or not that module is included/activated/licensed. It would be nice if the UI included a break-down of features that are both licensed as well as un-licensed. That way, you could not only see what you have, but what you don't.
Also, the right-sizing recommendations are great, but very little info is given about why the recommendation is being made. More info would not only increase understanding, but would help drive decision-making.

We have been using Turbonomic since 2013.

Deployment was nice and smooth.

None.

None.

The customer service folks have always been polite and professional.

On the few occasions that we've had to contact support, it's always been good. We haven't ever sat on hold for extended periods of time, and have always been satisfied with the abilities of the representatives.

We did not.

It was a standard OVA deployment with just a few configs to get set up.

We deployed in-house.

Turbonomic is a good value for the money, and they've always been fantastic to work with.

We did not eval other options, as there weren't that many to choose from, and Turbonomic was the most attractive.