IBM Turbonomic Reviews

Turbonomic (VMTurbo), once it is set up and running, works behind the scenes to run the VMs as efficiently as possible based on the available resources.

Turbonomic, per its design, finds bottlenecks and, depending on how it is configured, recommends actions and takes action to resolve the bottlenecks. Bottlenecks could be related to RAM, CPU, disk IO, etc.

Instead of buying more RAM for ESX hosts, Turbonomic managed the VMs in a more efficient way than DRS. The software makes recommendations of increasing the number of ESX hosts.

After our ESX lease was up and we purchased new hardware with more RAM, we continue to use Turbonomic in our development and UAT lane. I expect to use this product when using the cloud as the cost of CPU and RAM in the cloud will be prohibitive.

Turbonomic is not easy to use out of the box. It took a two-day session with an on-site tech to get up to speed.

The product's economics terminology is initially foreign to a system administrator.

There are many options in this application and if the admin is not using the app frequently it is easy to forget.

Six months.

Customer service was pretty responsive.

Technical support was pretty responsive. Issues that could not be immediately resolved were escalated to Engineering/development.

We got help from an on-site tech to perform the install.

The right sizing and resource balancing.

When spinning up new servers we use vendor best practices and hardware sizing documents.  Turbonomic lets us see real usage and resource requirements.

I would still like to see more canned reports for historical data.

About 3 years.

Deployment is easy.

Turbonomic is stable the only piece is the discovery could still be better.

Customer service has always been great with Turbonomic.

Previously we used vCOPS.

The initial setup is really easy and just point and click.

Deployed through in house team.

Right sizing our environment saves us money by not having to purchase additional hardware.

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.

Other than the core feature set, the planning tool has been invaluable to us.

VMTurbo Operations Manager has given myself and my staff more time to focus on other projects and tasks as well as improved overall performance of the virtual environment.

The UI could be improved.

We have been using this product for the past 11 months.

None at all, very smooth deployment and pretty easy to tune so far.

None at all.

None at all.

10/10, everyone has been very helpful and even my pre-sales guys are very easy to reach and check up on my from time to time.

10/10.

We evaluated vCOPS but decided we received way more functionality and automation with VMTurbo.

Very, straightforward setup by deploying the OVA template. You can slowly automate tasks once you’re comfortable with what its recommending.

We implemented in-house.

Within 6 months to 1 year… (helped avoid the immediate need to replace some older test storage).

We evaluated vCOPS but decided we received way more functionality and automation with VMTurbo.

Do the 30 day demo, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

The ability to utilize simple graphs to cost-justify the addition of new equipment and resources is extremely helpful, and goes beyond what is provided in other solutions.

Automatic migration of VMs keeps our workloads balanced at an efficient level.

The "consumer and producer" model Turbonomic is based off of can be a bit difficult to understand in the beginning. Continued awareness of the "Green Circle" portal for training and tips will always be useful.

2 years

Deployment and upgrading is simple and reliable.

Customer service always responds quickly, and is knowledgeable and thorough.

I am able to balance my VMs across all my hosts in my cluster. Also it can help with right-sizing both memory and vCPU.

It allows for automation thus freeing my time to do other projects.

It would be nice if it was easier to remove a host from that we would not want to manage (licenses).

Five years.

None.

None.

None.

I haven't had to use it much, but the couple of times I called, it was taken care of right away.

Very good.

No.

Setup was very straightforward.

In-house.

The software is very cost effective, especially in comparison to other products.

VMware vRealize.

I love the product.

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.

The load balancing is the most valuable feature of the product. Turbonomic balances on more metrics than vROps and has helped us utilizing our hosts in a better way. We are also using the API heavily for querying performance data.

Turbonomic has, to an extent, helped us grow our VM environment without us having to buy new hardware. We are also using the performance statistics gathered by Turbonomic in our operations dashboards to give us control over the environment.

Looking forward to the new HTML 5 UI.

One and a half years.

The deployment is very easy. You need to invest some time in adjusting the thresholds to suit your hardware and environment.

Some of the previous versions have had some issues with the stability, but the latest versions, >=5.7, seems to have fixed this.

We have 4000+ VMs in our environment and 120+ Hosts. No issues so far with the scalability.

Good customer service. Not too "pushy" on additional features, and always trying to understand our needs and to see if there are areas where we could use the product in a better way.

Great technical support. Fast response and very knowledgable.

Have used vROps for a little while. Much more complex and didn't give us the same value.