IBM Turbonomic Reviews

The balancing of clusters has been huge for us. With a high memory contention environment Turbonomic has been invaluable in maintaining excellent performance across all of our clusters. Our DevOps team is working closely with automatic reclamation of resources that will save us tens of thousands of dollars in hardware costs.

The TVs in our offices display custom dashboards that display the health of clusters and the actions taken by Turbonomic. It has helped us justify hardware and software purchases by easily showing our budget-makers where improvements can be felt.

We are looking forward to the HTML5 interface. As it stands now the interface, although easy to navigate, would be very helpful if I could view it on my phone.

9 months.

No.

No.

No.

Fantastic. Their pre and post sales support has been fantastic.

10/10

vCOPs/vROPs. We switched because of the "engineer friendly" interface of that solution. Turbonomic's solution is much more approachable and hands off.

Very simple. OVA/OVF file and point right to our vCenter.

I have found the reporting and management functions of Turbonomic second to none. I got introduced to vSphere about two years ago with a running instance of vCOPS and I found it clunky and unclear. Turbonomic gives you a simple yet very detailed overview of your virtual data centre.

The only areas of improvement that I could think of at this moment in time is to just give it a fresh look, their new UI is currently in Beta but it looks very promising.

Approximately 6 months.

No issues with the deployment, probably one of the simplest ones with their provided OVA template.

Turbonomics customer service I found pleasant and a pleasure to work with. Any issue raised will get you a fix in a very short turnaround.

Too early to say, but the planning feature with Turbonomic gives you a fantastic insight on requirements.

Go for perpetual licensing where possible you will get a return on investment just on the features alone.

- Balancing workloads across my environment.

- Planning for additional workloads and purchases.

Turbonomic has made more time available for me to pursue other projects.

I would like to see the interface move to HTML5, but I am told that is in the works.

2 years.

None at all, it was very easy.

None.

None.

Probably the best customer service I have ever encountered.

Excellent.

No.

It was very simple, deploying a VM template with a few settings is a breeze, and integration to vCenter is seamless.

I implemented this myself.

Automated resource management.

Notifications on resource congestion.

Turbonomic has allowed us to hold off on turning up additional hypervisors by allowing us to better use existing hardware.

Training was a bit disjointed at first, but the second session was improved.

Turbonomic has been active for six months.

Yes, due to some versioning issues in our hosting environment, but support quickly tracked down the cause and supplied a fix.

We have not experienced any stability issues since install.

Customer service was first rate in helping us determine if Turbonomic would work for us and directing support to our installation issue.

Technical support was able to quickly resolve our installation issue.

No.

Our initial setup was complicated due to specific versioning issues that were resolved once Technical Support became involved.

We implemented through an in-house team.

As I said, Turbonomics has had immediate effect with both the day to day experience of our users by actively controlling resource congestion, and ensuring we could utilize the current resources to the full amount.

Automation and planning capabilities have become a valuable asset for us.

VMTurbo helps us manage our virtual infrastructure with a more automated and hands off approach thanks to the way it proactively looks at issues. Automated v-motioning, for example, has been a great and reliable feature.

While old dashboard view is good, keep improving on the new Dashboard as I feel it is much better. Improve reporting capabilities, perhaps an export to Tableau.

Approximately 17 months.

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Excellent.

Excellent.

Previously we did not use any real virtual infrastructure insight tools aside from SolarWinds. VMTurbo is a different animal however because it provides automation and a proactive approach to monitoring.

Straightforward.

We implemented ourselves with minimal VMTurbo support.

Definitely try this if you have a huge virtual infrastructure, it has become a staple in our environment.

I really like the capacity dashboard, that allows us to plan our upcoming projects to ensure we have enough resources to support the project.

Our VMWare servers run a lot smoother with this product as it continues to look at resources and ensures our servers are on the best host at that point in time.

I think the web interface could be better, I know they are working on a new one so I'm looking forward to seeing the final product when its released.

We have been using this product for about 4 years now and I continue to promote the use of this tool to my peers.

No, deployment was very straight forward and easy to do, if we had an issue support was right there for us.

No.

No.

Customer support has been excellent, as I encounter an issue support is responding in a very timely manner and has been very easy to work with to solve the issue.

We implemented ourselves with remote support from Turbonomic.

We will continue to use the product because it works and is easy to monitor and train others in my team to use.

• Very easy installation.
• Reports back with recommendations and system health within hours of deployment.

Better than DRS to load balance VMs across hosts, allowing us to release 30% more computing resources.

Had issues trying to get Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts attached to Turbonomic. This required more effort as there are some changes to be made on WMI configurations. No way near as straightforward as VMware vSphere.

2 years +

VMware - just make sure your infrastructure allows the Turbonomic application to see all your vCenters.

Hyper-V - I tried to test Turbonomic on Hyper-V in a test environment. This was not at straightforward as attaching to a vCenter. It needs various Windows settings changed. Not sure if this has been fixed/made easier in new versions.

None.

None. We deployed the appliance two years ago and since then have added four more vCenters (200+ VMs) for it to manage and we have not had to change any settings to do this.

The support is very good. Very quick responses if you have a support issue.

By using the Green Circle community, you can get answers to real life questions about customised reports, etc.

Very good.

I used vFoglight previously, but this was mainly a reporting tool. Turbonomic manages your infrastructure for you and assists with future planning/provisioning.

Very simple to deploy the appliance, give it an IP address and then after logging in, attached it to your vCenters....simple!

In-house.

Reasonable costs based on a per socket license model.

vFoglight, Solarwinds Virtual Manager, Cibra.

Easier integration with Hyper-V hosts/clusters would be nice. Not sure if newer versions have been able to improve this.

The top level view of my overall infrastructure's health has been a great tool. Also the ability to view where we can benefit from additional purchases of equipment and such has been a big help.

Overall, Turbonomic has helped us be more efficient with the equipment we have.

I am not a giant fan of the new interface. I still use the older interface.

No.

None at all.

No.

10/10

10/10

No. We researched several solutions and in the end chose VMTurbo, now Turbonomic.

Initial install was extremely simple.

In-house.

Very fair for what you get.