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    SUSE Multi-Linux Manager

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ASUSE Multi-Linux Manager is a solution used to simplify management of any complex IT infrastructure. SUSE Multi-Linux Manager provides automated patching, content lifecycle management, and realtime monitoring to keep a mixed Linux environment secure and compliant at any scale – from 10 to over 100,000 clients – from a single console.N/A

    IBM Turbonomic

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Turbonomic, now part of the Concert platform, is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by cloud, infrastructure operations, and architecture to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated actions. One of the key features of IBM Turbonomic is its ability to continuously adjust…N/A
    Pricing
    SUSE Multi-Linux ManagerIBM Turbonomic
    Editions & Modules
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    IBM® Turbonomic On-Prem
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    per month IBM Turbonomic On-prem optimizes data center resources in real time, ensuring app performance at the lowest cost by aligning infrastructure supply with dynamic application demand.
    IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Standard
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    per month For customers with more than USD 1.6 million in annual cloud spend or 50 Managed Virtual Servers (MVS) or greater
    IBM® Turbonomic Hybrid Standard
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    per month Advanced hybrid cloud optimization capabilities for customers with 200 managed virtual servers (MVS) or more
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    Pricing Offerings
    SUSE Multi-Linux ManagerIBM Turbonomic
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Volume discounting available.
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    Community Pulse
    SUSE Multi-Linux ManagerIBM Turbonomic
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    SUSE
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    91%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SUSE Multi-Linux ManagerIBM Turbonomic
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of SUSE Multi-Linux Manager and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    SUSE Multi-Linux Manager
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Turbonomic
    8.0
    31 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings7.522 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings8.732 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings7.732 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings8.131 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings7.829 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.231 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings6.732 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SUSE Multi-Linux ManagerIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    8.5
    (163 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (21 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    SUSE Multi-Linux ManagerIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SUSE
    In our specific use case, SUSE Manager is extremely useful. We're having a large landscape that is divided into intake, development, quality and production with a couple of different SUSE flavours that need to be automatically rolled out, configured, patched and maintained, everything from up to date repositories that are cloned on a daily basis straight from SUSE.
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    IBM
    Datacenter Consolidation and Hardware Optimization: This scenario is relevant to you as a hardware manager. It applies when you have physical servers (like Power or System z) and want to maximize virtual machine density. Why it works: IBM Turbonomic analyzes the peak usage times of each VM. If VM "A" is active during the day and VM "B" at night, it places them on the same physical host. Ideal scenario: Data migration projects or when you're told, "[...], there's no budget for more servers this year, make everything fit on what we have." Consolidación de Datacenters y Optimización de Hardware,Este escenario te toca de cerca como encargado de Hardware. Cuando tienes servidores físicos (como los Power o System z) y quieres maximizar la densidad de máquinas virtuales.Por qué funciona: IBM Turbonomic analiza las horas pico de cada VM. Si la VM "A" es activa de día y la VM "B" de noche, las coloca en el mismo host físico.Escenario ideal: Proyectos de migración de datos o cuando te dicen: "[...], no hay presupuesto para más servidores este año, haz que quepa todo en lo que tenemos". This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
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    Pros
    SUSE
    • Manages patch levels for most Linux OS by: date, group, cloud or custom channels
    • Uses a lite version of Salt to run commands or scripts on any numbers of servers at once.
    • Allows the joining of groups inside SUSE Manager to quickly access or work with servers so grouped.
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    IBM
    • Presentation is nice. Its easy to understand what your looking at and the data that is being presented to you.
    • Properly identify resource utilization and recommendations for action on how VMs can be improved and resources can be better utilized.
    • It was also able to tell us the same information and analysis for cloud resources. I was not expecting that.
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    Cons
    SUSE
    • The cloning of patches when using the content lifecycle module in a multi-environment landscape with many SLES flavours is a bit cumbersome.
    • More premade saltstate for default applications are always nice to have.
    • Upgrading SUMA could be easier, especially when a Postgres upgrade is also required.
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    IBM
    • 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.
    • 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 also help drive decision-making.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SUSE
    I am expanding the use of SUSE Manager throughout our organization and can't imagine going back to the "wild wild west" we had before.
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    IBM
    We are certainly happy with Turbonomic as a whole and have invested quite a bit of time and effort into learning the ins and outs of the product. We have our reporting setup the way we want it and have gained definite value from these features. I will say though that many products nowadays are offering more native monitoring, reporting, and alerting features which may eventually steer us away from this product
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    Usability
    SUSE
    The gui is extremely user friendly. The installation and configuration does have a learning curve, it takes a while to set everything up. But once you're passed this initial learning curve, everything is very intuitive. If you want extra automation, there's an api (eventough i personally find the documentation of the api could be ordered better). I gave this product a 9 because of the initial learning curve and the api documentation, but for the rest it suits my needs perfectly.
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    IBM
    Excellent approach to larger VM organizational management. They have an very clean integrated dashboard that allows us to see everything in our environment and what that is doing in real-time. It works on multiple hyper-visors really well and integrates capacity planning on my local site as well as my cloud locations.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SUSE
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    VMTurbo has not caused any outages by not doing what we expect it to do.
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    Performance
    SUSE
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    It allocates resources among applications by showing more on the cost breakdown by cloud service, with metrics on cloud provider information like Azure Management, Identity, Networking, Storage with costs per day, and total services costs. This then could facilitate and show the corresponding actions thereafter upon scaling.
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    Support Rating
    SUSE
    SUSE Manager provided a top-tier support person on site to us for two days to help integration. We did all the standard stuff they help with before he arrived. We were able to use him to get all the tricky stuff identified and solved in the short time we had. Had they sent us a lower-tier guy, it would have been a waste. I was impressed they sent such knowledgeable person.
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    IBM
    When I contact support I get a quick response and they are able to solve my problem quickly. I also get a sense that they want to make sure that we are getting value from the product and walk me through whatever steps are needed to accomplish my goals.
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    In-Person Training
    SUSE
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Alex (from VMTurbo) has worked with the product for years and helped develop the product. He was very knowledgeable and was able to provide our support team with details knowledge on how to get our deployment configured correctly as well as help with another VMTurbo POC within another customers environment.
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    Online Training
    SUSE
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    After buying VMTurbo Operations Manager, I was invited to an online user training event. I felt this training was effective and dug just deep enough to be informative yet still keep my attention. Additionally, the webinar was free.
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    Implementation Rating
    SUSE
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    The implementation was very simple. Just upload an OVA file and power on the VM. Once it comes up enter some networking information and you can then access the web interface. From there, just begin configuring the system for your environment by adding you license and the various virtual environments and storage through the inventory tab
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    Alternatives Considered
    SUSE
    The other competitors also have a good platform and service, but we went with SUSE due to cost. The price was best and we needed to keep under a certain budget. The functionality was perfect for what we needed so we took the step forward. This allows us to manage our Linux environment within the manager and update or deploy specific tasks to each as needed.
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    IBM
    Ease of Deployment
    Turbonomic is straightforward to implement compared to other platforms that require complex configuration. This reduces time‑to‑value and accelerates adoption.Fast Visualization of Results
    The platform provides clear, real‑time dashboards and recommendations. Unlike competitors that may require manual report building, Turbonomic delivers immediate visibility into resource utilization and cost impacts.Native Kubernetes Integration
    Turbonomic integrates directly with Kubernetes, enabling automated scaling and resource optimization at the container level. This native capability is a differentiator, as many tools rely on external connectors or partial integrations.
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    Scalability
    SUSE
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    It’s very scalable.
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    Professional Services
    SUSE
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Professional services were always there to guide us in our transformation to the cloud. They understood our business model and then were able to provide guidance on what we needed from the tool.
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    Return on Investment
    SUSE
    • Manages patch levels for most Linux OS by: date, group, cloud or custom channels
    • Make it easy to audit our own infrastructure.
    • Allows the joining of groups inside SUSE Manager to quickly access or work with servers so grouped.
    • 24/7 support team.
    • Automatic deployment.
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    IBM
    • Application performance has been a big one. With Turbonomic keeping everything running at top performance, it can make changes when extra resources are need, quicker than somebody being notified and then making the necessary changes.
    • Turbonomic has been a great cost savings for us on multiple occasions. We use it every time we are improving servers.
    • With the planning feature we get the best performance form new hardware purchases
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Turbonomic Screenshots

    Screenshot of IBM Turbonomic Action Center, where it shows the list of optimization actions across the global environment—on-prem and cloud—that should be taken to minimize cost while assuring performance.Screenshot of IBM Turbonomic Application, a view that shows the global environment across private and public infrastructure from the context of individual application components. Users can optimize one application at a time by viewing each app's pending actions. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities across applications and their interdependencies.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic Cloud Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the cloud cost savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic On-prem Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.Screenshot of an IBM Turbonomic Cloud view, where the public cloud environment(s) and all of the pending actions required to bring them into an efficient, performant state. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities in the public cloud(s) and their interdependencies.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic On-Prem view that shows the user's private data center environment(s) and all of the pending actions required to bring them into an efficient, performant state. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities in data center(s) and the interdependencies between them.