IBM Turbonomic Reviews

The customizable dashboard lets us get quick insight into our environment. The quick overview of your environment allows you to get to fixing the things that matter most quickly.

It allows us to plan accordingly for any future growth.

There needs to be a way to permanently ignore certain alerts, such as if you have a server where you know the HDD space is low but also know it's never going to grow any to tell it to always ignore that one. Also email alerts for HDD space do not seem to exist, or if they do they aren't working properly or they aren't self explanatory to setup.

About a year.

No, we did not have any deployment issues

No issues with stability

Customer service is top notch, the product demos and trial we got early on were very helpful.

We haven't had to use tech support yet but I'm sure they are fantastic

We did use Virtualization Manager before and it didn't seem near as robust as Turbonomic and it was more expensive so we switched.

Setup was very easy.

We implemented it with the help of VMTurbo team.

This is an overall great and easy to use product and has been very helpful in our organization, definitely recommend it!

Dashboard. Quick way to monitor the vCenter.

Improve Overall efficiency dashboard has identified resource consumption by individual VM's either to much or not enough.

Tuning VM's to the correct resource consumption, memory or CPU, has provided a true snapshot of the environments "foot print". This has aided in the correct sizing of physical machines needed to support the environment.

Definitions/descriptions of what each chart means. The line graph looks good, but doesn't mean anything without prior knowledge of what a "good UI" number is for example. I have a server with host UI of 26.7, both desired and current. I guess that is good. I see the definition of what UI is, but I'm not sure what to do if I'm not running optimal. I let Turbonomic suggest, and optimize, but still have double digit UI.

2 years

I was told to use the Chrome or Firefox browser because it works better. I don't know if that has been fixed with the later versions of both Turbonomic and Internet Explorer. I still use Chrome to use this product.

None noted.

I rate customer service as a 10/10. I've not had any issues when dealing with support or sales team.

Technical support has aided me one time, and I am totally satisfied. Quick and correct resolution.

I did not previously use a different solution.

Tech support aided in the install, and then provided training. The install and setup is straightforward.

VMturbo support/presales team installed via remote desktop.

VMware Operations Manager.

The Turbonomic solution works/performs as advertised. It automatically removes a large workload in the day to day care of my virtual environment.

Automation of tasks to keep the resources loads on my ESX servers balanced. The reporting functions also save me a lot of leg work when requests are made from those higher up about over environment performance and trends.

It keeps resources loads balanced with in my ESX clusters. Also the information about scaling up or scaling down machines is very useful as I am able to properly increase or decrease resources for virtual machines. We are more efficient and once again the reporting allows us to get pertinent data quickly.

There are a lot preconfigured reports that can be ran within Turbonomics for some of the more common information needed. To do a custom report you have to create a SQL Query string and add it as a report to gather custom information. It would be nice to have the ability to choose the contents of the reports from within the web portal as opposed to getting one from the user community or writing it yourself.

Personally, close to a year, but my company has been utilizing it for around 2 years.

No, and the upgrade process was also very easy.

Not scaling out at this point.

Account reps have been great and very engaging.

Need for technical support has been minimal.

No.

It was originally deployed before my employment, but I did do redeployment and the process was very simple.

In house.

Obviously, automation has been the most valuable feature - it's what initially attracted us and likely our main reason for purchase. However, its reporting and planning features are also very useful and contribute greatly to ROI.

Not having to regularly monitor our VM environments' resources has been a definite improvement over our previous time-intensive and often reactive processes.

Built-in, context-sensitive 'Help' would be useful at times, instead of having to search through the User Guide or Community for assistance - or just for those times when you're curious about the function of a particular option/feature.

We've had Turbonomic deployed for about 7 months now - plus the initial trial period.

Deployment was very straightforward. Transition from trial to fully licensed was just as simple.

Turbonomic has been very stable. Honestly, forget it's even running... until we need to look at a report or have growth/expansion plans for our environment.

Scalability has not been an issue. In fact, we included some additional socket licenses in our initial acquisition as we anticipated adding additional physical hosts to our environment.

Their customer service is top notch - quick to respond and very helpful. Plus, with the Green Circle Community there is the added bonus of a support group (of sorts).

I cannot speak to their technical support, as we've really not had any issues, and initial implementation was a breeze.

Other than manually monitoring and manipulating resources, DRS (which really doesn't even compare) is the closest "solution" we previously used.

Reasons for switching? Real automation, forecasting, and reporting.

As previously stated, setup was very straightforward: Deploy VM, configure connections and targets, and Automate!

We worked directly with Turbonomic - although it was called VMTurbo at the time. Obviously, their expertise was second to none.

ROI can sometimes be quite subjective. However, with Turbonomic it’s genuinely evident from the get-go. First, the automation working toward maximum
optimization, efficiency, and uptime. Second, the capacity and future planning capabilities offer the ability to generate the "what-if" scenarios using your own current environment as the model to build on.

Their per-socket perpetual licensing works very well for us. Pricing was aggressive, as compared to other options we had.

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.