IBM Turbonomic Reviews

The most valuable features to our organization is the automation of the VM’s to prevent performance issues and to balance the resources of our ESX host. The capacity planning reports are also helpful when requesting for additional hardware.

I never have to worry about the ESX host CPU and memory utilization anymore and allow VMTurbo to do its job.

The dashboard is too basic, could use more details.

3 years

No issues with deployment.

Had issues with the product in the past, where it wasn't reporting correctly. I don't recall the fix, but the support was able to resolve the issue.

No issues have been encountered with scalability

Customer server is always great and respond to my tickets quick.

The technical team are very knowledgeable of the product and knows when to ask for senior assistant when needed.

Never use any previous solutions.

The initial setup was straightforward. Download the appliance and deploy it to our vCenter, configure the network settings and that was pretty much it.

The vendor team assisted with the implementation and we didn't encounter any issues, so they knew what they were doing.

Management dealt with the licensing and pricing.

We looked at vCenter operations manager, but at the time VMTurbo offered more features.

This is a great product, once it's set up, you hardly need to login to the interface.

Advanced load balancing capabilities, also across clusters. The storage load balancing has helped us avoid LUNs going full. Also, the ability to show historic peak values for guest metrics is a wonderful tool for rightsizing guests.

Turbonomic has helped mitigating the risks of LUNs filling up and resource congestion on individual hosts.

An option to remove unlicensed features from the dashboard would be welcome. We're licensed for the "Workload Edition", so any features that are available only to the "Application Edition" or "Cloud Native Edition" could be hidden from the GUI to avoid misunderstandings, and getting less clutter.

Besides having to manually set "no access" on clusters we did not want to license, it was a breeze.

None yet.

None.

They have been very helpful every time we've been in contact.

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.

- 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.

Turbonomic has tons of features that we use regularly from reports showing us simple IOPS stats, to showing over/under utilized VMs, and even wasted space on our datastores.  We run a cloud for many customers 24/7 and we are not staffed 24/7 so this keeps metrics for what is going on while we sleep.

Simple vCenter performance charts will show you only latency on datastores and will not drill down to show VMs causing the trouble.  Turbonomics will show the IOPS and which VM is causing it easy. 

Reports take time to custom tweak.

Nearly 3 years.

This is a simple appliance deployment so its almost as easy as it gets.

No issues.

No issues.

Service is fantastic and always willing to help us with questions regarding licensing and other features.

We were looking at vCops originally and the prices would not even compare with nearly 0 compromise.

I never regretted going with Turbonomic over vCops and would easily do it again.

We have fully automated resource scheduling with our VMware clusters. We have taken recommendations on sizing that have saved hundred of gigabytes of RAM throughout our clusters.

Without having to worry about a host becoming over-utilized, we have been able to work on more important projects. We are able to be more efficient with our host resources, saving the business money.

A more robust reporting engine would be a huge boon to us. A bit better error messaging with Application Control Module would help during troubleshooting adding a new target.

We've been a Turbo customer since 2014.

No, and their support was very quick and helpful to assist with major upgrades. In the end, it was easy enough that with a little Linux knowledge and the Turbo documentation, even major upgrades could be performed without having to contact support.

Turbo is very powerful, and does exactly what you tell it to do. If you configure it to be too aggressive to either efficiency or performance, your cluster might become unbalanced. We have had great stability keeping it slightly skewed towards efficiency vs performance.

No, we have one Turbo instance controlling multiple datacenters.

10/10 on customer support, as well as account management, could not be happier.

10/10 on technical support. If I encounter a complex issue, they escalate me to a developer resource who dives deeply to find a root cause.

VMware's DRS didn't seem to balance our clusters very evenly. vROps made sizing recommendations that were just not correct. We tested Turbo and the recommendations were all on point and we are able to trust them.

Very easy setup. OVA template, adding vCenters, making some groups, allowing our firewalls to let Turbo access everything and we were set.

In-house team was easily able to install.

We've saved an entire ESXi host worth of RAM with Turbo.

This product is very competitively priced for all the automation it brings.

We actually purchased vROps but it wasn't enough.

We really love Turbo and the time it saves us.