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    IBM Turbonomic

    Score8.5 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

    vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AVMware vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS) is an automated operations management solution that provides integrated performance, capacity, and configuration management for highly virtualized and cloud infrastructure. The product is currently discontinued.N/A
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    IBM TurbonomicvCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued
    Editions & Modules
    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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    IBM TurbonomicvCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsVolume discounting available.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM TurbonomicvCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    The problem we had with products like vCOPS, is that the environment should be in a healthy position when implementing them. If placed into an under-performing environment, it assumes and learns off that state being the norm, rather than making a recommendation, then measuring …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    vCOPS is a mess. The interface is kludgy and counter-intuitive. It has no ability to query or interact directly with storage systems or network switches; everything is from vcenter. Reporting is weak at best.

    Veeam ONE would probably be OK for smaller uses with customers who are …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    VmTurbo and Foglight are close in my book. Veeam well they own for Backups. vCOPS, you pay for what you get...
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    We looked at the old vCOPS suite from VMware. Turbonomic, at the time, had a lot more capability and functionality so we went with it. This was two years ago so I am unsure how the two products stack up now.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    It was much easier to set up than VCOPS. VCOPS required 1 month for the trending to work. VMTurbo just needed a week.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    We looked at the native VMWare vCops (now called something else) and found that VMTurbo provided a more relevant set of information for our environment. The interface was easier to use, easier to recognize what was happening in the cluster. The pricing was also significantly …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    We HAVE only used Vcops, so VMTurbo is way ahead of them.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    I wasn't very happy with the vCOPs interface. It is not as intuitive and easy to use as VMTurbo Operations Manager. From what I have seen, they both have similar features we wanted and it really came down to the price. For what we needed in the size of our VDC, it was more cost …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    Unlike VMware Operations Manager, Turbonomic has the ability to monitor and manage other virtual environments. This provides the support team a central management point for each environment. It also provides planning capability for each one of these based on the average virtual …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    VMTurbo Operations Manager has an orchestration layer that none of the other products have. We chose VMTurbo Operations Manager because of the far superior algorithms for migrating VMs based on computer or capacity.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    We looked at VCOPS, and there was a lot of promises that did not deliver. So we decided to check out third party solutions.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    I don't know there there really is a competing product. Some like to compare VCOPS but while it has a nice interface and provides decent reporting and metrics, it lacks the automation that VMTurbo Operations Manager brings to the table.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    We have used VCOPS but we all prefer VMTurbo for its effectiveness and automation. We have the automatically moving VMs and use its guidance to provision new data stores and hosts. This is something that was difficult in VCOPS.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    VMTurbo Operations Manager is very comparable and almost seems easier to set up.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    VMTurbo's health performance data had more information to believe the recommendations were more viable. Also, the scope of devices available for performance review such as Azure, Cisco UCS, and Nutanix were other key factors. Lastly there were some great product reviews.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    My organization looked at VCOPS, but it’s not really a monitoring tool. VMTurbo Operations Manager was the best product around a few years ago. However, since we changed over storage from block to NFS storage, I don’t really see how the product can be as great a benefit as …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Turbonomic
    We looked a vCops and it didn't have all the features we were looking for and was almost twice as expensive.
    Discontinued Products
    Chose vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued
    The UI is heads and shoulders above VM Turbo, much clearer and user friendly. I did not like the cost modeling used in that product.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    54 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    42 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
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    Features
    IBM TurbonomicvCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of IBM Turbonomic and vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued
    Feature
    IBM Turbonomic
    8.1
    24 Ratings
    8% below category average
    vCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued
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    Ratings
    Cloud Management Security7.818 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration8.725 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost Management7.926 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring8.426 Ratings00 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance7.624 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management9.325 Ratings00 Ratings
    Systems Integration6.725 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IBM TurbonomicvCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (156 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (21 ratings)
    -
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    Availability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
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    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    IBM TurbonomicvCenter Operations Manager (vCOPS), discontinued
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    If you already have the Enterprise level licensing, you may as well use it as opposed to pay for another third-party plug-in, i.e., SolarWinds.
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    Pros
    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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    • Resources allocation estimates are amazing, this feature allowed us to increase density on our hosts by reclaiming RAM and CPU from over allocated VMs letting us increase the amount of VMs per host. The report was very clear and easy to understand.
    • The planing feature enabled us to gather all the info we needed to plan hardware purchases as it showed us, with our current rate of deployment, when we would reach capacity in or environment.
    • The heat maps provided excellent drill down capabilities allowing for proactively resolving potential issues.
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    Cons
    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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    • It would be nice to be able to make configuration changes either directly in vCenter Operations Manager or have it link back to the correct locations in vCenter.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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
    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
    IBM
    VMTurbo has not caused any outages by not doing what we expect it to do.
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    Performance
    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
    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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    Support has always been very good with vCenter Operations Manager.
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    In-Person Training
    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
    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
    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
    IBM
    As the organization had experience of years in using IBM products, we had the confidence that they will provide us with great support. And we needed a reliable solution as a financial institute to ensure continuous operations. Even though the price was very high, we made the correct decision to go ahead with IBM Turbonomic as the feedback from existing users in the region was very positive. We needed a solution which was capable of handling our automation requirements. All these were green in IBM Turbonomic.
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    The UI is heads and shoulders above VM Turbo, much clearer and user friendly. I did not like the cost modeling used in that product.
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    Scalability
    IBM
    It’s very scalable.
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    Professional Services
    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
    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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    • The over allocation report allowed us to postpone new hardware purchases by 16 months by reclaiming resources.
    • Pro activeness to resolve issues with the build in alarms
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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.