IBM Turbonomic Reviews

DRS Scheduling/automation. Reporting.

Allowing Turbonomic to take over for vCenter DRS has shown a marked decrease in vMotion of virtual machines to keep our cluster resources balanced.

The interface could use some work to improve overall usability.

Three years.

No.

No.

No.

Excellent!

Excellent!

No.

Very straightforward.

In-house team.

No.

Yes.

I would like to see support for VMware NSX included.

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.

The automation piece is one of the most valuable features. It has allowed us to focus less on optimizing VM workloads. Custom dashboard has also been helpful with upper-level management.

Turbonomics is DRS on steroids. Our clusters have been perfectly balanced.

VM level granularity on some of the automation actions such as adding memory/CPU. That would allow an admin to schedule the exact time for the specific action for any given VM.

We have had this solution running since mid 2016.

No.

No.

No.

Customer service is fantastic.

Five stars.

Nothing else in the market can compare.

Initial setup was very simple. Deploy a simple OVA, give it an IP and sufficient rights, and voila.

We implemented in-house.

TBD.

Not sure.

N/A

I like the dashboard. I don't have to search around or create reports for issues or items I should be looking at it. It all just comes to the front.

It continually gives me a solid look at my virtualization environment. It gives me a second set of eyes on our VMs.

The UI is a little dated. I'm not a huge fan of the fact it runs on flash. Something HTML5 based would be nice.

About one year.

A little. We run AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor by Nutanix) as our hypervisor, and it took a little tweaking to get it to recognize everything. However, support was great, and we quickly figured it out.

None.

None.

Support has been great, both technical and sales.

Tech support has been great.

No, we did not. Previously, on vSphere, we just used what we could get out of vCenter.

Straightforward. It was just a virtual appliance.

It was just in-house combined with support from sales/tech support.

We haven't calculated it, but I can tell you that it's something we've relied on and must have saved us money, if only in time not having to go look for the information this tool provides.

It was reasonable. Also, they've been very forgiving on the trail end of things, as we only bought licensing for our "new" infrastructure, but monitored the whole (old and new) throughout our transition.

None.

• Automating migrations and implementing storage recommendations
• Reporting
• Planning tool

It has increased the utilization of our hosts without sacrificing performance. We can run more VMs over a longer period of time without needing to purchase additional hardware. The Plan tool is great as you can create a plan and save it for the future. It allows you to configure the plan however you need it to determine what is needed. For example, I use the Plan tool for capacity planning throughout the year, where it used to be a manual process. I now have plans that I can run and within minutes; the report will let me know what we need and where.

I no longer need to keep a watchful eye on the environment. Turbonomic provides assured performance. Anything that we don't yet have automated, it will make a recommendation to improve the performance of that particular server.

There is a lot of information and to get a plan or report correct is a little trial and error. Once you get used to the interface and how it works, it does get easier.

For about four years

None. It's very easy to implement. Deploy the OVA, connect to your environment(s), configure your custom settings particular to your company, and your done.

I've never encountered issues with stability. We did need to increase the memory on the appliance because we have a very large environment.

None.

Their customer service is second to none. Any time I've had to contact support, they've answered it immediately and correctly.

Excellent!

At a previous place of employment we used vFoglight which was just a terrible product. Turbonomic doesn't even compare because it doesn't monitor your environment and send alerts. It prevents alerts from ever happening.

Very straightforward.

I implemented it myself.

It was within 12 months of deployment. It would have been sooner had we been able to enable all recommendations.

N\A

N\A

Capacity reporting features.

This product has allowed us to see how dense we can make our ESXi clusters.

Reporting on powered down VMs.

Six months.

No.

Yes.

No.

10 out of 10.

On a scale of one to 10 it's been a 5.

No.

Straightforward. Deploy an OVA.

Vendor team, good level of expertise.

Capacity planning, migration planning, consolidation of our environment.

Speak with your account manager.

Yes, vROps.

N/A

I'm primarily using Turbo for rightsizing VMs and to prove to application owners that the software vendor's system requirements for reserving huge amounts of resources aren't necessary.

With VMware's DRS aggressiveness turned down and allowing Turbo to manage the load, we now have a perfectly balanced load across our clustered hosts. These could otherwise easily be off by as much as 30-40%, even on the very aggressive settings in VMware before Turbo.

The reporting module has very big potential, but really lacks predefined reports for all kinds of purposes. I often find that the report I need doesn't exist, even though I know the data for it is available.

One and a half years.

No issues. Even upgraded to the new CentOS appliance and went through backup and restore of the database without any issues along the way.

No.

It's best used in a clustered environment, and a bit cumbersome to maneuver around in when installed in a single host environment.

Excellent!

Excellent!

I have had several WebEx sessions where their techs very professionally addressed some questions or issues I had.

It has saved us from purchasing new hardware in four regional offices and had us extend the service for two years, instead of buying new servers (HPE Gen8 and Gen9 servers running on fifth year). It has easily returned the investment we made in purchasing Turbo.

Migration planning, VM rightsIzing reports, performance assurance dashboards, workload placement rules and planning.

Helps us rightsize workloads, highlight bottlenecks and effectively plan for capacity.

Can't wait for the new GUI (which is due soon) as the old interface can be difficult to navigate.

Two years.

Nope.

Nope.

Nope.

Really good, all the account management I've spoken to understand their product and how we can improve and progress our environment.

Also really good. All the support staff I've spoken to understand their product and what we're trying to achieve.

No.

Very striaghtforward.

In-house.

No exact figure, but the aim is to extend the lifespan of our hypervisor host before adding capacity.

In order to get the most out of the product cost, you need to drive the rightsizing of workloads. Trust in what it recommends.

No.

Nope.