IBM Turbonomic Reviews

Provides automation of the workloads to the best hosts and trending of resource capacity over time. We constantly focus on this as a service provider.

We have a relatively small team for these tasks. We want to ensure that we have automation to provide our clients with the best experience, as well as reducing our overall labor. These factors are critical to our success.

The user interface is quite dated. There is a new UI release on the horizon and some of the new UI elements are in the newest version. It would also be good to have an overview of the environment of improvements. In addition, VMtools out of date, as are the phantom files.

We have been using this solution for three years.

There were no deployment issues.

There were no stability issues.

No scalability issues,so far and we have 20 hosts.

I would give customer service a rating of 9/10.

I would give technical support a rating of 9/10.

We used vMan from SolarWinds. We wanted a product that enabled more automation of tasks and intelligent load balancing.

The setup was straightforward. You simply install the OVA, set the IP, and plug it into your Vcenter.

We did the implementation in-house.

We have been seeing a 4-6 month time window where we have been able to extend before procurement of additional hosts which have been required.

Alongside the additional labor, we save approximately $4500/month.

Ensure that you do a multi-year agreement to get the best discounts.

We looked at vMan and vROps.

It is a performance-based application that provides automatic planning on every type of infrastructure, i.e., the on-premise or cloud.

When you have a congestion in your infrastructure, you don’t have to resolve these kinds of problems, the solution is proactive and automatic to take the better for your application when they need it.

I have used this solution for two years.

We never experienced any stability issues.

We never experienced any scalability issues.

I would give the technical support a 10 out of 10 rating.

Previously, we were using vRealize Operations IT Manager (vROps) but it wasn't as granular as Turbonomic.

It is very easy to setup, i.e., one VM to deploy with one week to audit your infrastructure, then add the first recommendation.

It is easy for licensing the physical core CPU.

This is the best solution.

With this product, the admin IT takes time to do other kind of jobs and not to resolve problems.

• Visibility: Prior to using Turbonomic, we had absolutely no insight into which resources our applications were utilizing.
• Automation: I have a small number of IT staff and the automation provides a number of huge benefits. The operational tasks are handled by Turbonomic which dramatically reduces the burden on my team, freeing up their time to concentrate on improving the IT infrastructure as opposed to reactive ‘fire-fighting’. The VMs are correctly spec’d to the workload’s demands (with no user impact and performance degradation) circumventing any chances of human error.
• Plans: We were able to visibly see the future deployments and the impact that it would have on the existing environment.

Due to the VMs being correctly sized, we had an instant increase in the resources and saw an immediate CapEx saving, as we were in the process of purchasing new equipment.

The current Flash user interface is sometimes slow, but the new HTML5 interface is already in development.

I have used this solution for two years.

There were no stability issues.

There were no scal issues.

The setup was very easy. Deployed the OVA, assigned a static IP and linked it to our hypervisors. Saw recommendations to improve our infrastructure within minutes.

The pricing and licensing are fair.

We evaluated CloudPhysics. We experienced issues due to the fact that it is a Cloud SaaS solution and faced bandwidth challenges, which resulted in the product being unusable.

Immediate ROI was seen due to the reduced IT infrastructure CapEx.

I highly recommend deploying Turbonomic prior to purchasing any hardware.

Planning a projection and right sizing capabilities

Used it during a ESX host refresh project to calculate how many hosts we would need to accommodate our growing production environment over the next 2 years. We reduced from 20 ESX hosts to 8 large hosts saving on VMware licensing costs as well as server hardware maintenance

Reports could be more versatile.

Since Dec 2016

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Fantastic! 10/10. Engineers are responsive and very knowledgeable

No

Straightforward

Through our Business Partners. They learnt as they went but did a good job overall

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Great product and we use it extensively, from setting up VMturbo to load balance our VM's across a cluster, implementing right sizing recommendations, policy rules, memory/storage and CPU trends and plans for future projections in order to determine how we can reduce our hardware and licensing footprints.

We really take advantage of the PLAN feature, as forecasting and planning resources is imperative for effective and efficient operations management. Our fiscal responsibility considerations are key and important.

As we project growth and expansion, we have to consider high availability and redundancy. We also have to consider business continuity and keeping track of current and future assets. Those items are really key to this program.

We would like additional insight into our virtual environment, which increases the credibility and integrity of the systems we manage and administer.

We've been using the product for three years.

Our deployment was seamless.

We haven't experienced any stability issues.

We have been able to scale and use the product without any interruptions.

In our experience, we've had excellent Account Managers. Our questions have been researched and responded to in a timely fashion.

I would give technical support a rating of 9/10. They have been very responsive.

We did not use a solution before this.

We pretty much set up the product from the documentation provided. This was originally one of the few products we researched that was a single virtual appliance.

We implemented in-house

I couldn't give a dollar amount, but this has increased the credibility of our virtual environment.

If you compare other solutions, you'll witness the value of the product.

We evaluated VFoglight.

It's been a great fit for our organization.

Dashboards for critical servers. When there is an issue, we can get to critical data quickly. Much faster than using vCenter.

We are able to focus in on the actual problem faster.

I have found the interface not to be intuitive. Hopefully this will be addressed in the future.

About one year.

No.

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Excellent.

Excellent.

No.

Yes.

In-house implementation.

I can't say. I am an engineer, not in management.

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Go with it!

The automation has been great. We had some VMs running slow due to high IO on their LUNs, and Turbonomic automatically moved them to correct the problem. Our server performance has been much improved. As the environment changes, Turbonomic adjusts and keeps everything running smooth.

Response times have been improved on many of our servers.

We've had the solution a few months.

We allowed our DRS rules to be used for Turbonomic, but didn't have one of the rules selected as active in VMware. All we had to do was click a check box to fix the issue.

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No

Customer service is excellent.

Technical support was very helpful.

No

It was a straightforward setup.

We implemented it in-house.

We're still working on allowing more automation. Our ROI is constantly improving.

No

The extra training we purchased was worth it. We learned a lot about how to use the product and get the most out of it.

The most common features we use are the reports for VM performance and the planning tools. We use the planning tools to right-size hardware purchases when replacing old hardware. It takes the guess work out of switching hardware platforms.

It has reduced our hardware costs by allowing us to purchase only the necessary resources instead of over purchasing out of caution.

The automated resize of VMs requires caution. Make sure you properly configure this feature before it is enabled.

It's been a while. About five years.

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Wonderful. They have strong technical support that is very willing to dig into problems.

Wonderful. They have strong technical support that is very willing to dig into problems.