IBM Turbonomic Room for Improvement

TS
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

The management interface seems to be designed for high-resolution screens. Somebody with a smaller-resolution screen might not like the web interface. I run a 4K monitor on it, so everything fits on the screen. With a lower resolution like 1080, you need to scroll a lot. Everything is in smaller windows. It doesn't seem to be designed for smaller screens.

When I change the resolution to 1080, I only see half of what I would on my big 4K monitor. It would be annoying to have to scroll to see the flow chart. They have a flow chart that goes top to bottom like a tree. On a lower resolution, it might be nice if that scrolls horizontally because it's long, narrow, and tall. It's only three icons wide, but it's 15 icons tall. I think it would be helpful to have the ability to change that for a smaller screen and customize the widget.

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DG
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

On the infrastructure side, they've been doing it long enough. But until I get a better use case for the cloud, the only thing I can think of is that I'd like to see it work with SevOne, when you're doing true monitoring, so that the software packages work together. 

It would be good for Turbonomic, on their side, to integrate with other companies like AppDynamics or SolarWinds or other monitoring software. I feel that the actual monitoring of applications, mixed in with their abilities, would help. That would be the case wherever Turbonomic lacks the ability to monitor an application or in cases where applications are so customized that it's not going to be able to handle them. There is monitoring that you can do with scripting that you may not be able to do with Turbonomic. So if they were able to integrate better with third-party monitoring software—and obviously they can't do them all, but there are a few major companies that everybody uses—and find a way to hook into those a little bit more, the two could work together better.

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CB
Sr System Engineer at Liquidity Services

There are some issues on that point of it providing us with a single platform that manages the full application stack. I think version 8 is going to solve a lot of those issues. Turbonomic version 6 doesn't delete anything. So, if I create a VM, then destroy the VM, Microsoft doesn't delete the disk. You have to go in and manually do that. Turbonomic will let you know that it's there and that it needs to be deleted, but it doesn't actually manually delete the disk. The inherent problem with that is, it will say, "This disc is costing you $200 a month." Then, I go in and delete it. Since this is being done outside of the Turbonomic environment, that savings isn't calculated in the overall savings because it's an action that was taken outside of Turbonomic. I believe with Turbonomic 8, that doesn't happen anymore. 

We are still saving the money, but we can't show it as easily. We have to take a screenshot of, "Hey, you're spending this much on a disk that isn't needed." We then take a screenshot after, and say, "Here is what you're spending your money on," and then do a subtraction to figure it out. So, there are some limitations. 

It is the same with the databases. If a database needs to be scaled up or scaled down, Turbonomic recommends an action. That has to be done manually outside of the Turbonomic environment. Those changes are also not calculated in the savings. So, it doesn't handle the stack 100 percent. However, with version 8 coming out, all of that will change.

I would love to see Turbonomic analyze backup data. We have had people in the past put servers into daily full backups with seven-year retention and where the disk size is two terabytes. So, every single day, there is a two terabyte snapshot put into a Blob somewhere. I would love to see Turbonomic say, "Here are all your backups along with the age of them," to help us manage the savings by not having us spend so much on the storage in Azure. That would be huge.

Resources, like IP addresses, are not being used on test IP addresses. With any of the devices that you would normally see attached to a server resource group, such as IP addresses, network cards, etc., you can say, "Look, public IP addresses cost $15 a month. So if you don't have a whole lot of money and a hundred IP addresses on a public IP sitting there not being used, you're talking $1500 a month YOY." That becomes quite a big chunk of money. I know that Turbonomic is looking at the lowest hanging fruit. That is not something worth developing for only $15 a month saving, but I would love to see Turbonomic sort of manage Azure fully versus just certain components.

One thing that has always been a bit troublesome is that we want to look at lifetime savings. So, we want to say, "Okay, we installed this appliance in October 2018. We want to know how much money we have saved from 2018 until now." The date is in there. It is just not easy to get to. You have to call an API, which dumps JSON data. Then, you have to convert that to comma separated values first. After that, you can open an Excel spreadsheet, which has hundreds of rows and columns. You can find the data that you want and get to it, but it is just not easy. However, I believe there is a fix in version 8 to solve this problem. 

When we switch to version 8, we can't upgrade our appliance, because it's a new instance. What that means is we will lose all our historical data. This is a bummer for us because this company likes to look at lifetime savings. This means I have to keep my old appliance online, even though we're not using it for that data and I can't import that data into the new appliance. That is something that is kind of a big setback for us. I don't know about other companies and how it is being handled, but I know I will need to keep that old appliance online for about three years. It is unfortunate, but I see what Turbonomic did. They gave us so many new bells and whistles that they think probably people aren't going to care because they're so much more savings to be had. However, for our particular environment, people like to see lifetime savings. That sort of puts a damper on things because now I need to go back to the old appliance, pull the reports using an API in a messy way, and then go to the new appliance. I don't even know what I am going to get from that. I don't know if it's going to be the Excel spreadsheet or just a dashboard, then somehow combine the two. While we haven't experienced it yet, when we do upgrade, we'll experience that problem. We know it is coming.

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IBM Turbonomic
March 2024
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KM
Senior Director of Middleware Hosting Technology at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We're still evaluating the solution, so I don't know enough about what I don't know. They've done a lot over the years. I used Turbonomics six or seven years ago before IBM bought them. They've matured a lot since then. 

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JA
Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Turbonomic doesn't do storage placement how I would prefer. We use multiple shared storage volumes on VMware, so I don't have one big disk. I have lots of disks that I can place VMs on, and that consumes IOPS from the disk subsystem. We were getting recommendations to provision a new volume. 

We use NetApp storage on the backend for the big one. I didn't want to re-provision a new volume. I wanted a placement. If it can place my workload in CPU and memory, why can't it tell me the placement of my disk volumes to spread my IOPS instead of telling me to make another volume? 

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AH
AVP Global Hosting Operations at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

It would be nice for them to have a way to do something with physical machines, but I know that is not their strength Thankfully, the majority of our environment is virtual, but it would be nice to see this type of technology across some other platforms. It would be nice to have capacity planning across physical machines.

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SubashSubbiah - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The automation area could be improved, and the generic reports are poor. We want more details in the analysis report from the application layer. The reports from the infrastructure layer are satisfactory, but Turbonomic won't provide much information if we dig down further than the application layer. 

I would like them to add some apps for physical device load resourcing and physical-to-virtual calculation. It gives excellent recommendations for the virtual layer but doesn't have the capabilities for physical-to-virtual analysis.

Automated deployment is something else they could add. Some built-in automation features are helpful, but we aren't effectively using a few. We want a few more automated features, like autoscaling and automatic performance optimization testing would be useful. 

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MK
Ict Infrastructure Team Cloud Engineer at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees

There is an opportunity for improvement with some of Turbonomic's permissions internally for role-based access control. We would like the ability to come up with some customized permissions or scope permissions a bit differently than the product provides. We are trying to get broader use of the product within our teams globally. The only thing that is kind of making it hard for a mass global adoption, "How do we provide access to Turbonomic and give people the ability to do what they need to do without impacting others that might be using Turbonomic?" because we have a shared appliance. I also feel that that scenario that I'm describing is, in a way, somewhat unique to our organization. It might be something that some others may run into. But, predominantly, most organizations that use or adopt Turbonomic probably don't run into the concerns or scenarios that we're trying to overcome in terms of delegating permission access to multiple teams in Turbonomic.

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DT
Senior Member of Tech Staff at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would like Turbonomic to add more services, especially in the cloud area. I have already told them this. They can add Azure NetApp Files. They can add Azure Blob storage. They have already added Azure App service, but they can do more.

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Keldric Emery - PeerSpot reviewer
Advisory System Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The way it handles updates needs to be improved. That would be one of the areas I would focus on.

I wish that the upgrades and updates were more easily accessible. Some of that is based on my environment and how my environment is set up. Due to the fact that we are in such a lockdown environment, I wish that it would be better or easier to perform the updates.

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RM
Director of Enterprise Server Technology at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

For implementing the solution’s actions, we use scheduling for change windows and manual execution. The issue for us with the automation is we are considering starting to do the hot adds, but there are some problems with Windows Server 2019 and hot adds. It is a little buggy. So, if we turn that on with a cluster that has a lot of Windows 2019 Servers, then we would see a blue screen along with a lot of applications as well. Depending on what you are adding, cores or memory, it doesn't necessarily even take advantage of that at that moment. A reboot may be required, and we can't do that until later. So, that decreases the benefit of the real-time. For us, there is a lot of risk with real-time.

You can't add resources to a server in the cloud. If you have an Azure VM, you can't go add two cores to it because it's not going to have enough processing power. You would have to actually rebuild that server on top of a new server image which is larger. They got certain sizes available, so instead of an M3, we can pick an M4, then I need to reboot the server and have it come back up on that new image. As an industry, we need to come up with a way to handle that without an outage. Part of that is just having cloud applications built properly, but we don't. That's a problem, but I don't know if there is a solution for it. That would be the ultimate thing that would help us the most: If we could automatically resize servers in the cloud with no downtime.

The big thing is the integration with ServiceNow, so it's providing recommendations to configuration owners. So, if somebody owns a server, and it's doing a recommendation, I really don't want to see that recommendation. I want it to give that recommendation to the server owner, then have him either accept or decline that change control. Then, that change control takes place during the next maintenance window.

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SB
Senior Cloud Engineer at O.C. Tanner Co.

It's tough to say how they could improve. They've done a lot better with their Kubernetes integration. If you'd asked me a year and a half ago, I would say that I think their Kubernetes integration needs work. They started with more of a focus on on-prem VMware virtual machines. I think it was called VMTurbo at one point. Their main goal was to help you with these virtual machines. 

Now they've pivoted to also supporting containers, cloud-native tools, and cloud resources. At first, it was a little hard because they had this terminology that didn't translate to cloud-native applications for the way that Kubernetes deploy things versus a virtual machine. 

I was left wondering if this was a Kubernetes resource but now, it's come a long way. I think they've improved our UX as far as Kubernetes goes. I'm interested in seeing what they do in the future and how they progress with future Kubernetes integration. I would say that's something they've improved on a lot. 

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AD
Vice President at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The platform is continually updated with new features. If they would educate their customers to understand the latest updates, that would help customers be more satisfied with the updates and push them into their environments.

Also, there are a lot of features that are not available in Turbonomic. For example, PaaS component optimization and automation are still in the development phase. If they could provide those enhancements, that would be really great. For example, we are spending a lot of time on Azure Databricks, exploring it and trying to do cost optimization as well as setting up the policies. If Turbonomic could help us understand how much the Databricks CPU is using per instance or workspace, that would help us optimize it, scale it according to our business requirements, and decrease costs.

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Richard-Romeo - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Cloud Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

They have a long road map when we ask for certain things that will make the product better. It takes time, but that's understandable because there are other things that are higher on the priority list.

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Alex Darby - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Infrastructure, Wintel Engineering at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The reporting needs to be improved. It's important for us to know and be able to look back on what happened and why certain decisions were made, and we want to use a custom report for this.

Between the different versions and releases, it seems that reporting fell by the wayside. It seems like there was more in the past than there is today, which has made it a little bit more of a challenge for us to capture some historical information.

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TW
Principal Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

There are a few things that we did notice. It does kind of seem to run away from itself a little bit. It does seem to have a mind of its own sometimes. It goes out there and just kind of goes crazy. There needs to be something that kind of throttles things back a little bit. I have personally seen where we've been working on things, then pulled servers out of the VMware cluster and found that Turbonomic was still trying to ship resources to and from that node. So, there has to be some kind of throttling or ability for it to not be so buggy in that area. Because we've pulled nodes out of a cluster into maintenance mode, then brought it back up, and it tried to put workloads on that outside of a cluster. There may be something that is available for this, but it seems very kludgy to me.

I would like an easier to use interface for somebody like me, who just goes in there and needs to run simple things. Maybe that exists, but I don't know about it. Also, maybe I should be a bit more trained on it instead of depending on someone else to do it on my behalf.

There are some things that probably could be made a little easier. I know that there is a lot of terminology in the application. Sometimes applications come up with their own weird terminology for things, and it seems to me that is what Turbonomic did. 

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Dan Ambrose - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer 4 at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Turbonomic can modernize the look and feel, making it more user-friendly to access and obtain information.

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JF
Chief Information Officer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

In the automation engine, it is really quick to change things when it needs to scale up. However, scaling back is a little bit slower. Recovering resources when they're not needed is not as optimized as it could be.

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BM
Senior Manager Solution Architecture at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

We don't use Turbonomic for FinOps and part of the reason is its cost reporting. The reporting could be much more robust and, if that were the case, I could pitch it for FinOps. You might say that's a weakness, but it's not what it's supposed to do.

If it had the reporting, it would be a 10 out of 10.

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RM
Team Lead, Systems Engineering at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The GUI and policy creation have room for improvement. There should be a better view of some of the numbers that are provided and easier to access. And policy creation should have it easier to identify groups.

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JK
Server Administrator at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The way they evaluate reserved instances could use some polishing. The people that make decisions on what to buy are a bit confused by how it's laid out. I don't know if that's the fault of Turbonomic, or if that's just the complexity of reserved instances that Microsoft has created. It's not really that confusing for me, but for some people it's a little bit confusing. Trying to explain it to them is a bit tricky as well. We get to a point of impasse where we just accept that they don't really fully understand it, and that I can't fully explain it either. It would help if Turbonomic could simplify it or clarify it, and help non-technical people to understand what's going on and how the reserve instances are being calculated and what they apply to.

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LA
Head of Enterprise Wide Technical Architecture / Enterprise Technology Specialist at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

After running this solution in production for a year, we may want a more granular approach to how we utilize the product because we are planning to use some of its metrics to feed into our financial system.

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DA
Global IT Operations Manager at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

One ask that I'm waiting for, now that they have the ability to make recommendations for disks, for volumes, and disk tiering, is all about consumption. For example, we have a lot of VMs now, and these VMs use a lot of disks. Some of these servers have 8 TB disks, but they're only being used for 200 GBs. That's a lot of money that we're wasting. In Azure, it's not what you're using. You purchase the whole 8 TB disk and you pay for it. It doesn't matter how much you're using. So something that I've asked for from Turbonomic is recommendations based on disk utilization. In the example of the 8 TB disk where only 200 GBs are being used, based on the history, there should be a recommendation like, "You can safely use a 500 GB disk." That would create a lot of savings. And we would have more of a success rate than with the disk tiering, at least in our case.

Also, unfortunately, there is no support for cost optimization for networking.

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it_user185619 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager, Systems Admin. with 51-200 employees

The planning feature, though they have apparently made some gains on this with the new release coming out soon. If I use the default templates, the planning feature works great, but we were recently trying to model a plan that would make all 850 VDI desktops dual core, we had some struggles getting this to work correctly but I am told this was addressed and should have no issues with the next release.

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Nicholas Diesel - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect DC at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

It can be more agnostic in terms of the solutions that it provides. It can include some other cost-saving methods for the public cloud and SaaS applications.

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it_user688398 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer - Virtualization at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

I seem to find a new bug with each new version. It's software, so I can understand, but I think the QA process needs improved.

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it_user545850 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure team leader - senior infrastructure analyst, storage and virtualisation at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

Current toolset uses Flash and doesn't look as modern as some other platforms. The use of flash as a tool for creating the portal is dated in that most vendors are now delivering these types of web portals via HTML5 and supporting multi-device formats rather than requiring flash. The flash interface looks dated and is a little cluttered making navigating the portal less than optimal.

Other reasons flash is not desired is for the obvious security risk of enabling flash in modern browsers. Most vendors are looking to move to HTML5 or have done so. I believe that Turbonomic is actively developing an HTML5 based version of the tool as they now have a preview available within the portal of this, although I have no dates yet as to when this is meant to be made live.

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it_user215703 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Architecture Manager at Mary Washington Healthcare

We would like to see VMTurbo develop more application-specific modules that give us additional visibility into the end-user experience.

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it_user694317 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

This is more of a feature request than a need for improvement. I would like to be a able to track growth over time by cluster and be able to define the clusters to use for enterprise summary. I would also like to be able to get an enterprise summary from the aggregator appliance.

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it_user689733 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

I'd like to see an improvement in the reporting, from including more canned reports, to being able to more easily customize the existing ones (without needing to write SQL queries).

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AS
Systems Engineer at a government with 201-500 employees

I do not like Turbonomic's new licensing model. The previous model was pretty straightforward, whereas the new model incorporates what most of the vendors are doing now with cores and utilization. Our pricing under the new model will go up quite a bit. Before, it was pretty straightforward, easy to understand, and reasonable.

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CE
CTO at F12.net

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.

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it_user689127 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Planning tools could be easier to use. Depending on your needs, it can be time consuming to get what you want.

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it_user539940 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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reviewer1550322 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The reporting feature could be made a little more seamless with the rest of the tool. It would be nice to be able to share and print the reports a little more easily.

Some features are only available via changes to the deployment YAML, and it would be better to have them in the UI.

The upgrade process is a bit tedious, but I know the team is working on that.

The ability to set the scope at the dashboard level and let it flow down to all the widgets you add would be amazing. Having to select the scope per widget is a bit tedious.

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RB
Server\Storage Administrator at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry

Based on the way we currently use the product I do not have any recommended improvements. However, we do not have may of the automated features configured at this time.

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it_user690747 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a government with 10,001+ employees

It would be helpful to have the option to display the target(s) by their host name instead of their IP address. Also, hopefully Turbonomic will continue to increase supports for more target types (vendors).

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it_user690744 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer I at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The new HTML5 version is not as user friendly as I had hoped.

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it_user539619 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP Intel Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I think the UI could be cleaned up some which I know they are working on. I have seen the demo and it looks good from what I have seen so far. Also reporting needs to be worked on, the lack of ability to edit a report has been a challenge. Also vROps has better canned reports.

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TS
CEO at Rufusforyou

The solution could be improved by having all interfaces together and I'd really like to see more interfaces. 

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KE
Advisory System Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The planning and costing areas could be a little bit more detailed. When you have more than 2,000 machines, the reports don't work properly. They need to fix it so that the reports work when you use that many virtual machines.

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it_user698298 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at a university with 501-1,000 employees

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

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it_user539985 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees

When trying to view a trend at 4+ day period, the trend lines tend to flatten out and move to a single data point a day.

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it_user541665 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Virtualization Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Would still like the ability to pick tiers of performance for workstations. For instance, would like to create a group wherein workstations could only scale between 4-8GB RAM, 8-16GB, 16-32GB, etc. This would fall inline with VMWare's Horizon Air performance tiers. 

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EC
Principal Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

They could add a few more reports. They could also be a bit more granular. While they have reports, sometimes it is hard to figure out what you are looking for just by looking at the date.

They could update the look of the console.

There are some manual issues. When it comes to forecasting dollar amounts, you have to put in all these inputs. Some of the questions they ask are a little outside of the realm that any engineer should be putting in. If they could streamline that, the solution would be much better.

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RA
Operations Engineer at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

It sometimes does get false positives. Sometimes, it'll move something when it really wasn't a performance metric. I've seen it do that, but it's pretty much an automated tool for performance. We've only got about 500 virtual machines, so lots of times, I'm able to manage it physically, but it's definitely a nice tool for a larger enterprise that might be managing 2,000 or 3,000 virtual machines.

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it_user687024 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Manager - Infrastructure at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The planner can be complex to complete.

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it_user336084 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at UL Workplace Health & Safety

The one point is the reporting. We do have reports out of it, but they're not the level of graphical detail I would like.

One of the reasons we went with VMTurbo was because we wanted to replace vCOPS. We weren't getting the level of granularity and alerting out of vCOPS to really understand our individual VMs, but VMTurbo, I think, could do a little bit better job on reporting. I would love to use them in our monthly metrics meetings to really show in a very nice graphical way how our environment's growing, how many VMs did we grow from one month to the next. They have some reporting features that we could have a little bit better for us.

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it_user688908 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Have plan data shared across user accounts within Turbonomic. Also more granular permissions. We would benefit greatly from more flexibility than the current roles available. Finally, reduce the time to have the efficiency data repopulate into the GUI.

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it_user689082 - PeerSpot reviewer
Ops Sys Programmer II at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Built-in, context-sensitive Help would be useful. Much more intuitive personal dashboard designing would be nice.

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it_user540930 - PeerSpot reviewer
Windows Systems Administrator at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

They need an updated UI - perhaps HTML5? The dashboard could use a cosmetic update.

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it_user539610 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user291975 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at a recruiting/HR firm

User Interface can initially seem a bit 'busy', but you get used to that once you learn what it's showing you.

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it_user213489 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Services Architect with 501-1,000 employees

The reporting, there is always more information that could be extracted. VMTurbo as well as the Green Circle Community continuously adds/improves on the reporting. The other area would be visibility into bandwidth utilization. We presently use another tool to extract this information for each of our tenants. It would be nice to have this in a single pane of glass within VMTurbo Operations Manager.

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it_user692475 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Turbonomic's product is the best I have seen at calculating headroom when compared with our original in-house calculations. However, the current versions do not split out headroom by component nor do they indicate where the capacity bottleneck lies (e.g. CPU, memory, or storage).

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it_user691482 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This product works well. Only thing I would say is to add tie in with more storage vendors like Nimble.

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it_user690804 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Infrastructure Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I like the detail I get in the old user interface and will miss some of that in the new interface when we perform our planned upgrade soon.

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it_user690057 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Information Technology at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • More insight into the OS and processes rolled into the dashboard natively.
  • Add a way to pull metrics from physical servers.
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it_user687567 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect/ Sr. Manager of IT Operations at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

So far the application has been delivering as marketed. Once we can customize our dashboards to our liking, it will be much easier to identify where we need to focus on improving our infrastructure.

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it_user541323 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtual Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The GUI has been updated since I first started using Turbonomics which was a welcomed improvement. Initially the GUI was difficult to follow and find where things are. It's gotten better but the GUI could still use some work to make certain functions more obvious.

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it_user539130 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

We found that if we didn't keep up with some incremental version updates, the required jump to the next version required a complete re-deploy from an image. That's avoidable by keeping up with the incremental updates.

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it_user161931 - PeerSpot reviewer
Independant IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

For us there are 2 areas that the product could be improved. Firstly the documentation and help files are not overly intuitive, providing very few examples or details on how to gain the most out of the product. The second area is around reporting. There is easy way to generate customised reports without writing complex SQL queries. A GUI report writer would greatly enhance the product.

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it_user804366 - PeerSpot reviewer
Alliances Director, Data Center at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

Enhanced executive reporting standard with the tool beyond the reports that can be created today. Something that can easily be used with upper management on a monthly or quarterly basis to show the impact to our environment.

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it_user541809 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Analyst IT, VMware Infrastructure Team at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We have two Turbonomic sites set up and use an aggregator to provide an overview of them. The biggest suggestion that I could make is for the changes in the aggregator to be imported into the Turbonomic sites. Currently, we make the change at one site, then the second site keeps our environment on an equal basis.

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it_user694308 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. System Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

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

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it_user692703 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The old interface looks a bit dated and the new one does not seem to have all the information the old one has (which is why I use the old one). It can take me a bit of searching to find the endpoint I want to analyze further.

Also, more/better alerts would be useful, e.g. when action is warranted where automatic operations have not been enabled.

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it_user692700 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

I would simplify the navigation, this would be a great read-only tool to give to upper management.

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EC
IT Infrastructure Architecture Team Lead at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The UI can be slow and occasionally hangs, requiring logging out and back in. More informative progress status when working with plans would be helpful.

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it_user541710 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator and Tech Support Manager at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

They could do with a little less UI clutter.

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it_user689862 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Continued development for Hyper-V and additional storage vendor integration too.

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it_user539748 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The interface could be a little cleaner and navigation a little easier. (note: this has improved in version upgrades since I first wrote this review!)

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reviewer544389 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a university with 201-500 employees

The product is administered using a web based interface. This interface was written in Adobe's Flash product which requires the Adobe Flash plugin to be installed on any device accessing it. Flash has had multiple security problems over the past several years and is a product I like to avoid. In addition, it's not available for mobile devices. Attempting to administer Turbonomic Operations Manager via a mobile device, like a phone or tablet, is impossible due to the Flash requirement. I would love to see this interface rewritten in HTML5. Someone from Turbonomic told me this was coming, but that was awhile ago and it still isn't here.

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AD
Technical Consultant at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees
  • Additional options in data and report views.
  • We would also like to see expansion made in the UCS tools that they provide, to allow viewing the entire UCS environment and not just the equipment that hosts a hypervisor.
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it_user541401 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems/Network Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

It does not fully understand our DR/SRM (active/standby) infrastructure as we have hosts with nothing on them. When running some reports the numbers are off.

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it_user539058 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Admin at Cobb EMC

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.

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it_user539064 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at Nex-Tech

The appliance interface doesn’t list the features/capabilities that licenses can be purchased for, so unless you were directly involved in the negotiations. Purchasing of the appliance, there is no way to tell what feature set you have. An example would be the network control module. There’s no way to tell, just from looking at the interface, whether or not that module is included/activated/licensed. It would be nice if the UI included a break-down of features that are both licensed as well as un-licensed. That way, you could not only see what you have, but what you don't.
Also, the right-sizing recommendations are great, but very little info is given about why the recommendation is being made. More info would not only increase understanding, but would help drive decision-making.

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JD
Network Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

GUI interface is not as slick as VMware.

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it_user689055 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager - Business Technology Solutions at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

GUI can be more user friendly. We are also looking for certain reports but they are not defined yet.

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it_user693516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer - Virtualization at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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.

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it_user689757 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Admin Virtualization Services at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have an instance of Turbonomic for our Azure environment that we're working with Turbonimic on. Many of the current recommendations are inaccurate. We've also experienced some issues with setting our storage up in Turbonomic with our "on prem" environment. In both instances, Turbonomic has been diligently working with us.

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it_user688362 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Technology Operations & Digital Security at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is an area where new workloads can be created and placed. I've had trouble with that feature and find it easier to create new machines directly in vCenter and let it get the address by Turbonomic after the fact.

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it_user544491 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - IT Infrastructure at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees

Turbonomic's current UI is coded in Flash though they have stated an HTML5 version is coming soon.

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MK
Senior Director IT at BARBRI Inc.
  • More Azure features are needed. They started with AWS and are now ramping up Azure features. 
  • We would like to see more visibility into reserved instances in Azure.
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it_user693378 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Reporting on powered down VMs.

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it_user690621 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems and Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Since the introduction of a HTML 5 based interface, our main - but minor - criticism of a less than intuitive operation managers' GUI would be the area of improvement.

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it_user688968 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Better QA for updates/timeline.

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it_user688332 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The GUI is not always user friendly and some settings are not where you would expect.

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it_user234747 - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice Manager - Cloud, Automation & DevOps at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The current UI (Adobe Flash) is very clunky and inefficient; however, their new HTML5 UI (in Demo mode) will be GA in late 2017.

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it_user543822 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Waiting for the HTML5 GUI since flash has refresh issues.

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it_user539973 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Engineer at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'd like to see the GUI in HTML5 or something similar. I don't like using Adobe Flash.

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it_user542673 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Operations Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our Oracle database servers requires a large amount of resources within the virtual server. Turbonomic always thinks these servers are over-provisioned and would move resources if they were configured auto mode. The performance of the Oracle database servers would not optimally run if Turbonomic made the changes it thinks necessary.

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it_user545277 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Interface and navigation can be a challenge if you do not spend a lot of time with it. Creating policies is a bit intimidating and clunky, but that may be on me, because I have not spent much time in the deep end. To Turbonomic's credit, it does what I need it to do with minimal involvement or attention on my part. I am aware that its capabilities are much greater than what I am taking advantage of.

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it_user411870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Unit Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

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

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it_user692511 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server and Virtualization Team Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

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.

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it_user542421 - PeerSpot reviewer
EVP Financ with 51-200 employees

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.

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it_user690738 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a non-profit with 11-50 employees

We would like to see more integration with storage platforms. Our vendor of choice is not supported.

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it_user539835 - PeerSpot reviewer
VDI Operations Team Lead at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Decrease the cost.

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it_user205332 - PeerSpot reviewer
NETWRK ANALYST IV with 10,001+ employees
it_user541458 - PeerSpot reviewer
LAN/WAN Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would like it to auto-update itself rather than me having to check upgrade then apply on a monthly basis.

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it_user539721 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Finding help can be difficult if needed. Most times we will just call Turbonomic rather than search through the user guides and forums for help on an issue. Better alerting features would be helpful as well.

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it_user688047 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer II at a non-tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The only area of improvement that I can think of is re-sizing recommendations are not able to be based upon working hours of a day or typical load times. So you have a VM that gets pounded from 7am - 4pm, but then pretty much goes dormant. Turbonomic makes its recommendation over a 24-hour period, not during time windows you can specify. You do, however, have the option to restrict automated resizing actions within a certain window (so Turbonomic doesn't resize during peak times). I just wish there was a way to base resizing recommendations during a snapshot window instead of a 24-hour period.

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it_user545853 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Maybe a cleaner backend. HTML5?

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it_user539721 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

One issue I have is just not knowing how to get some information I believe is there. I have not found any detailed walkthrough of the software and all of its features. I could call and have someone walk me through it, but would rather do this on my own time.

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it_user542304 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage & Virtualization Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

I'd like to see the creation of custom dashboards become a little more streamlined. I love the concept, but it's the thing I have struggled with the most thus far. I am trying to get dashboards created for application groups, only giving them exposure to certain elements. I can't get as granular as I would like. It also takes several steps in quite a few screens to get things going.

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it_user539835 - PeerSpot reviewer
VDI Operations Team Lead at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Would like some better canned reports allowing for average utilization of VMs in the environment during a defined range of hours.

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it_user245208 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Engineer at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees

I think that the interface can use some modernizing and less abrupt transitions. There has already been a good attempt but need to dig deeper.

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it_user692469 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

The user interface has room for improvement, but it is well on its way with the new UI that is being developed.

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it_user688842 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Server Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Better hardware utilization and point VM and apps on demand to better working places.

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it_user690642 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We wish Nimble was available as a storage provider.

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it_user690075 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Admin at a energy/utilities company

Like any software I use, I'm looking for the least amount of clicking needed to get to places. If I need to click 10 different windows to get a report, I'm done with the software. This software is very good with this, but there could always be improvements.

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it_user686232 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Licensing for clusters with few VMs (i.e. HA focus over consolidation focus).

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it_user687282 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Engineer with 5,001-10,000 employees

To be able to drill down into RDMs and get all of the information about each RDM attached to a server.

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it_user542010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at CGI

Had issues trying to get Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts attached to Turbonomic. This required more effort as there are some changes to be made on WMI configurations. No way near as straightforward as VMware vSphere.

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it_user542475 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Engineer at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The UI needs to be finally and fully moved to pure HTML5 and NOT flash.

They are transitioning the UI to HTML5, but the GA release (as far as I know), is still in flash.

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it_user541614 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

I would love more training and certification opportunities.

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it_user539763 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We would like to see Turbonomics dive into JVMs and continue to work with HP in the integration with HP OneView 3.0. This would provide a better overall picture of the physical infrastructure layer.

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Chris Childerhose - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect at ThinkON

None at the moment.  The product is improving with each release and the new HTML5 interface is great.  Would like to see the ability to move custom dashboards from the old interface to the new as that is not possible right now.

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it_user692478 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead - Global Virtualization Team at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Need to improve the report presentation. (Colors, graphs, fonts).

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it_user691617 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vmware Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Turbonomic needs to find how to have the appliance OS up to date. Per our security tool, it has missing patches.

A real central management console to manage all the instances from one place.

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it_user686205 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization Specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The old interface was not the clearest UI in some areas, and could be quite intimidating when first using the tool. Subsequent releases have had the option of an updated UI which is not only much cleaner in its look but is also much more intuitive in its operation.

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it_user688344 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I know form v5.7 it supported RDM LUN, but it shows very few details. It would be great if Turbonomic allowed us to get the report for VM with RDM with its compatibility mode.

Like vROPS, which allows you to dig more into VM performance issues and provides the details to get to the root cause, if Turbonomic would do that that nothing would be better.

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it_user447456 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Systems Analyst at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

The only areas that I believe could be improved are more built in reporting for monthly/yearly benchmarking from an executive standpoint.  For example, a report that can be used as a metric to show the overall stability of the environment from a weekly/monthly/yearly perspective such as utilization index to verify that we are using resources as efficiently as possible.

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it_user541458 - PeerSpot reviewer
LAN/WAN Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think the web interface could be better, I know they are working on a new one so I'm looking forward to seeing the final product when its released.

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it_user686283 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Systems Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Maybe a few more canned reports. In addition, the ability to create custom views to get to VMs that may require more babysitting for resource usage instead of having to drill down every time.

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it_user692505 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Server Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

A more interactive dashboard with integrated features.

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it_user689022 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

More reporting flexibility

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it_user688992 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager IT Infrastructure Computing at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Reports: Have a wider variety of canned reports ready to go.

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it_user688197 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Specialist II at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Mostly the dashboard. While the product is fairly intuitive and easy to use once you learn it, it can be quite daunting until you have undergone a bit of training. With the newest version, the dashboard has gotten even more "intimidating", at least to me.

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it_user541377 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP, Senior Server Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

UI is still maturing. The UI is relatively easy to use but still does not have that professional look to it.

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it_user539805 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization Administrator at University of Maine System

I would like to see the new HTML5 web interface released soon. In using the preview, it looks very promising.

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it_user213198 - PeerSpot reviewer
Windows Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The UI could be a little more user friendly and less buggy. When working heavily in VMTurbo, you need to occasionally log out and back in to the site as flash will have problems.

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it_user686157 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

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

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it_user690015 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would like to have a report to see all the snapshots.

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it_user539892 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

One of the areas of improvement are the UI. The current UI feels a bit out dated. Although all information is readily available and easily accessible. From what I have heard and seen at VMworld 2016, a new UI is in development and will be released shortly.

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it_user539139 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would like to see the interface move to HTML5, but I am told that is in the works.

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it_user542514 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at ChyronHego Corp

Personally, I find the interface, especially for a new user, to be less than user friendly. I don't think this is an issue due to a poor product, but more because the product can do so much, finding the simple tasks can be difficult. After using for a while, it makes sense, and navigating becomes easier.

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it_user541428 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Not quite used to the new UI.

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it_user690726 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer

The interface has so much to offer, it is a bit complex and there is a learning curve. However, they are more than happy to spend time teaching you to use the product.

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it_user689106 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I think that our only limitation to date is that we have yet to tap in to its full potential.

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it_user687585 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Manager at a sports company with 501-1,000 employees

Better alerting and reporting.

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it_user687252 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
  • For report scheduling, lacks the ability to define the time of day when the report was run.
  • Needs to be easier ways to define N+1 capacity when looking at cluster statistics.
  • Can't wait for the HTML 5 version. The flash sometimes has response issues. 
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it_user542331 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Team Leader EMEA at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

I overheard that the report granularity could be improved.

The only issue I had in the past is the fact that the manager was equipped with only one hard disk so excessive logging could cause an issue. But that was solved in a new version.

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it_user543930 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The Graph and Report outputs could be improved.

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it_user543675 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a maritime company with 51-200 employees

Every once in a while when we perform an upgrade, it wipes out our setting. We need to go in and set it back up again. This is mildly annoying.

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it_user546267 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at a wellness & fitness company with 501-1,000 employees

The software functions as advertised. There are charts and graphs in the dashboard that are confusing to read and understand.  It would be nice to have a detailed explanation of what the graph is showing directly accessible from the UI.

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it_user546264 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager & Cisco CCNA Teacher at a non-tech company with 51-200 employees

Interface needs to loose Flash completely and switch to HTML5.

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it_user542433 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Training was a bit disjointed at first, but the second session was improved.

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it_user542451 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a legal firm with 51-200 employees

I am not a giant fan of the new interface. I still use the older interface.

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it_user542427 - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Director, IT at a performing arts with 1,001-5,000 employees

Wish the storage move accounts for possible VMware snapshots that existed on some host.

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it_user541725 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Information Technology at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Performance tuning and storage replacement.

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it_user541428 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

UI can be clunky at times, they have a new UI just not fully released.

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it_user539697 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees

I would like to see more integration with 3rd parties.  For example, I would like to be able to provision more storage from Turbonomic, not just have it tell me I need more.

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it_user516468 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at CityServiceValcon

Alert emails could be more comprehensive. The name kind of drives me crazy...It's difficult to say "Turbonomic" in conversation and have someone take you seriously.

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it_user184440 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. System Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Dashboard view could be improved.

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it_user539631 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Servers & Infrastructure Leader at a tech services company

CAPEX and Management / sizing (OPEX).

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it_user687351 - PeerSpot reviewer
Computer Systems Admin with 11-50 employees

The biggest issue that I ever had was that the old interface was buggy sometimes. It doesn't always refresh without me logging off and on.

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it_user541809 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Analyst IT, VMware Infrastructure Team at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The graphical interface could be better.

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it_user539715 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network/Systems Administrator at a tech company with 51-200 employees

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.

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it_user698232 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Analyst, Infrastructure Systems at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Reports could be more versatile.

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it_user693276 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operation & Project Lead at a maritime company with 201-500 employees

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.

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it_user692964 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer (VMware) at a hospitality company with 201-500 employees

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

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it_user687540 - PeerSpot reviewer
Expedia Virtualization and Cloud at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I would like to see the UI become a little more clean but have no suggestion on how to make it better.

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it_user542373 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Infrastructure and Operations at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user541305 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

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

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it_user177246 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of IT at a non-tech company

Automatic upgrades that are hands off would be great, however the upgrades are pretty easy and take only a few minutes.

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it_user212832 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network & Communications Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The UI could be improved.

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it_user691581 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user688485 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Admin at a tech services company

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

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it_user690069 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Consultant - Infrastructure Management at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

Include more report generation options using GUI instead of queries.

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it_user686040 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Looking forward to the new HTML 5 UI.

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it_user543999 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user542448 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

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.

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it_user539970 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems/Network Administrator III at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees

vCenter integration. Would love to have the ability to manager the infrastructure within one window.

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it_user539955 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

User interface could use a bit of tweaking.

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it_user539838 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Architect at a sports company with 51-200 employees

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.

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it_user539049 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Reports take time to custom tweak.

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it_user689118 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

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.

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it_user451104 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product needs tighter integration points with storage vendors, the mainstream top 5-6 are added but it would be nice to see more.

Additional reporting and alerting would be great additions as well.

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it_user544197 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Could be more user friendly, but the provided training provided the needed clarity.

The product comes with a ton of features and options, which without training seemed overwhelming.


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it_user541476 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Architect at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

The interface could use an update. Additional options in data views and dashboards would be welcome. We would also like to see expansion made in the UCS tools that they provide, to allow viewing the entire UCS environment and not just the equipment that hosts a hypervisor.

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it_user541464 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Director - Technology Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The UI, existing plan modification and the reports layout.

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it_user688608 - PeerSpot reviewer
TeamLead at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • The arithmetic of optimizing the resources of VMs based on the workload.
  • Some of workload are by a monthly basis. Need to consider the month-end or quarterly-end workload.
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it_user705003 - PeerSpot reviewer
Pre Sales Engineer - BigTec at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

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.

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it_user542523 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

The way dashboards are accessed with a pop-up can sometimes get in the way.

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it_user543408 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

It does take a while to figure out their way of doing things. From forecasting and a lingo perspective.

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it_user543549 - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

The only areas of improvement that I could think of at this moment in time is to just give it a fresh look, their new UI is currently in Beta but it looks very promising.

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it_user544416 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a tech company with 51-200 employees

The dashboard is too basic, could use more details.

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it_user688608 - PeerSpot reviewer
TeamLead at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The arithmetic for optimizing the resource of VMs based on the workload.

Some of workload are by a monthly basis. Need to consider the month-end or Q-end workload.

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it_user544077 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Since Turbonomic can do so much, it can be a complex system to look at for one that haven’t laid eyes on it before. But there is a possibility to test out the new design, and that looks to improve on this issue.


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it_user690813 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech company with 51-200 employees

The interface could use some work to improve overall usability.

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it_user539004 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The UI could use some improvement, but the preview of the new UI shows great confidence in the product.

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it_user543516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Administrator at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

We are looking forward to the HTML5 interface. As it stands now the interface, although easy to navigate, would be very helpful if I could view it on my phone.

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it_user377631 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Financial Officer at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

Due to the planner features breath of scenarios it can be a little confusing to get the right result for the scenario you need. However their are lots of videos for this and support were most helpful.

An agreement with Pernix would be helpful.

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it_user692508 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Email alerts could be more comprehensive.

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it_user689097 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
it_user188490 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Data Center Operations at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Reporting is improving. GUI is ugly.

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it_user688299 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Leader, Sr. Virtualization Lead with 1,001-5,000 employees

The GUI could be more user friendly, and more CMD applets should be created or shared with the community.

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IBM Turbonomic
March 2024
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