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Turbonomic’s Hybrid Cloud Management Platform enables heterogeneous environments to self-manage system resources to assure the performance of any application in any cloud. Turbonomic specializes in expanding beyond monitoring to automatically managing resources between different systems, particularly virtual environments, and can be deployed on-premises or as SaaS.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/NT/n5/4ZXPJM8ITXT9.JPEGTurbonomicVMTurbo gives insight into you datacenter; but at a cost!2019-07-30T17:09:07.577ZWe used it to help manage the compute resources being used in our datacenter. We have increased our VM deployments exponentially over the past few years without ensure efficient use of our resources. Turbonomic was implemented to help identify underutilization of resources to recover tied up resources and ensure that our most important applications had the resources they needed. It was used in our campus-wide datacenter that houses all VMs for our university.,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.,Cost; the licensing was simply too expensive for us to make any use of.,6,It showed us where we can save on resource utilization and some VMs that could improve performance
It was hard to realize an ROI because of the high cost for licensing. In the end, we discontinued use.,Not really; VMTurbo touts that it does a better job than DRS and sDRS, but for us at least, without many tiers and different environments, DRS and sDRS were fine at managing VM placement and sizing.Our group that manages VMs and cloud environments is fairly small, so managing it within our team has not been extremely difficult without VMTurbo,VMware ESXiChris SaenzTurbonomic is a great autonomic platform for my environment!2019-04-30T04:10:41.191ZWe use Turbonomic for workload automation in our internal VMware environment. We also use it for capacity management and VM rightsizing.,Automation
Reporting
Capacity Management
Rightsizing,In an environment with a lot of contention, Turbonomic moves VMs around more than you may like.
If you don't want to use it to suspend hosts, be sure to disable it... Or it'll evacuate hosts on you.,9,I've found the capacity management (Plan) function to be very valuable. My company was planning to expand a cluster. I ran a plan in Turbonomic, and it said we could suspend 3 hosts, not add... There's our savings!,We are not yet using this feature. We do not allow Turbonomic to deploy the VMs for us yet. There are several decisions that go into deploying VMs in our Environment. Is it DR protected? What DR Tier? Etc. We haven't started looking into setting up Turbonomic to make decisions based on these criteria. Maybe one day, we'll use Turbonomic for this too.,Ben LiebowitzTurbonomic Rocks the Virtual Management World!2015-10-13T20:59:56.327ZVirtual environments can be challenging to manage. There are only so many resources on a host, and ensuring that each virtual machine has enough to properly function without choking the physical host can be a difficult balance. While some vendors such as VMware provide their own solution, these can be costly and will only work with their products. What does a company do when they have a heterogeneous environment that may also include Hyper-V and XenServer? A heterogeneous virtual environment is one if the reason Turbonomic was installed in my environment earlier this year. This is a powerful product that we have just scratch the surface on its vast features. It monitors the entire virtual environment from the application to the storage pool and provides statistics and recommendations. The objection of Turbonomic is to reach an ideal balance of host resources and virtual machine performance. Once recommendations are made, the system can be configured to answer these adjustments in a variety of ways such as fully or partially automated, manual, or simply recommend.,In fully automated mode, the virtual machine may automatically have additional memory or processors added, be migrated between host or storage, or even suspended if they system is deemed as idle. If there is hesitation around allowing a product to fully control the virtual environment, then a mix of partial automation and recommendation may be the desired configuration. As an example, the configuration may allow for an automated relocation of virtual machines onto different host, but only recommend that it be migrated from one datastore to another one. This give an administrator who is intimately familiar with the environment some control over the placement of resources.
Using the Supply Chain tool, an individual virtual machine can be analyzed to see more details on the issue with that particular system. When that machine is selected, utilization panel can be adjust to only show the impact on memory, CPU, storage, etc. There are also details given on where in each resource falls within their utilization index, and at what level Turbonomic has determined the optimal usage should be based on the recommended changes to the environment.
Virtual environments have made planning for resources rather difficult over the years. Many times newly added machines may take up more resources than previously estimated, causing the need to either halt projects or unexpectedly purchase additional hardware for the host environment. VMTurbo has a planning feature to better aid in determining how many new virtual machines can be added to the environment. This is done via a “template catalog” which is used for testing the environment. While there are some pre-canned system options such as small, medium, and large, there is also the ability to build a custom template that may be a standard for your environment. Once the template is built, the planning tool will tell you how many more virtual machines can be added to the existing environment, the projection option can be enabled and the furthest date out selected. When the report is complete, the future resource requirements will be displayed. This allows for better budgetary planning within the coming year to ensure the systems will perform to the expectations of the business.,During the period I have been using the product I have not seen any areas that are lacking in functionality. However, this is a licensed based product. That means that additional features require the procurement of an additional license. An additional feature I am looking to add next year is the Storage Control Module. This will provide better insight, reporting, and planning. While the base product will look at the LUN IOPS, there is the need to go deeper into the storage pools and disk arrays. This will allow better capacity planning and allow sufficient time to acquire and implement any necessary storage expansion.,10,Turbonomic has provided the infrastructure team better insight in to what can be done to improve the performance of our virtual machines. In the past, this could be more difficult to determine. It has also provided solutions where limitation had been set in the past and forgotten about. These settings caused other limitations despite adding more resources. Had we not had Turbonomic these limitation would have either taken more time to location or could have resulted in a support call with VMware.
We now have a central location to manage each of the virtual environments. While something like vCenter Operations Manager works great with vSphere, if there are other products in the environment, you would then need multiple monitoring solutions. This increase licensing costs as well as complexity.,VMware Operations Manager,4,4,Central management of all hypervisor environments
Future planning of needed resources
Ensuring optimal performance of the virtual environment
Ability to monitor the overall utilization of the storage environment,We are still relatively new to the product and have not moved into any creative uses for it.,There is an application performance module that may be purchased to ensure the performance level of mission critical applications.
There is the possibility we may deploy virtual desktops in the future. Turbonomic could then be used to ensure the performance of the virtual desktop environment.
This product may also be used for monitoring and control of our UCS environment.,10,Yes,Price
Product Features
Product Usability,After using this product for about twelve months, I can say we would purchase the product again. The installation process was very simple and the level of support provided by VMTurbo has been great. New updates and releases come every quarter and provide not only "bug" fixes, but new features and capabilities. The upgrade process is performed through the web interface and takes approximately ten minutes to complete.,Implemented in-house,No,Change management was minimal,No issues,10,10,Yes,I was due an upgrade after having ran into issues with a previous upgrade. They basically had about 5 people on a support call for the next upgrade to ensure my next one went smooth. Turbonomic's support has always been great.,The reporting letting me know about changes to virtual machine need either more or less CPU\Memory. This prevents a lot of over or under provisioning of these costly resources. The system can be configured to automatically make these changes, but we are a very conservative company when it comes to risks, so we do not allow the automated function.
The monthly reports that can be configured to email to the group on a designated date and time. The allows the team to quickly review several of these to see if we need to make changes.,While not necessarily cumbersome, configuring all of the policies can take some time. The product is so versatile that if you have many different virtual environments, policies have to be created under each one. For example, if you have multiple instances of vCenter, Hyper-V, or XenCenter or any combination, you need to create policies for each one. You could set one over all, but I am not aware of any environment that uses the same policies on every single virtual machine in their environment.,10Rodney BarnhardtTurbo charge your cluster Turbonomic2015-10-14T20:40:16.140ZI primarily use the core functionality to maintain our performance baselines. It is also very useful for finding and troubleshooting and performance hotspots. Having this tool now enables up to give performance guarantees to all of our Tier 1 VMs that house our critical applications.,It is very good at giving you patterns allowing you to recognize bad actors consuming large amouts of resources.
One of the best and easiest capacity planners for your VM and host consumption.,Automatic application recognition could definitely be improved instead of just giving generic app load numbers.,9,Improved cluster efficency
More reliable performance levels,It helps maintain a much more balanced environment.,vRealize Suite,VMware vCenter Server,3,1,performance maintenance,for planning future vms,application performance monitoring,8,No,Price
Product Features,no changes,Implemented in-house,No,Change management was minimal,no major issues,9,8,When I needed to upgrade to the newest version and I had to get engineering to fix an issue with my database so my system would upgrade,planning new servers,application recommendations,9John DopsonWhy I use Turbonomic...2016-09-28T18:44:30.760ZWe use Turbonomic to help monitor the health and efficiency our virtual environment and make informed resource allocation decisions. Resource strain and availability is greatly enhanced with the use of Turbonomic.,Visually shows the health of my virtual environment
Easy to set automation within the environment
Ease of use and familiarity,Training sessions involve a marketing feel at the beginning
The Supply and Demand tab is not only confusing but does not really apply to our infrastructure
The Supply Chain tab is also a bit confusing and just looks nice,9,Increased load balancing capabilities
Made monitoring my environment easy
Automation has allowed the environment to utilize the available resources much more efficiently,Turbonomic has allowed me to take a more hands off approach on managing my virtual environment in that it does most of the work for me. If I see a host being hammered by memory or CPU utilization, I would have to vMotion it elsewhere before vSphere would do it for me. Turbonomic does this for me efficiently and proactively.,,Cisco Unified Computing System Manager, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Brocade VDX,9,No,My sales rep and I were on a 'catch up' call, and he noticed I was down level in my Turbo version... He immediately got someone scheduled to help me upgrade my software version at a time that was convenient for me. I was a little surprised honestly.Verified UserDeploy Turbonomic and sleep well knowing your environment is in safe hands2018-01-12T17:32:59.144ZWe use Turbonomic for mainly DRS purposes. It is being used to manage DRS throughout the entire organizations. Turbonomic addresses the problems that are not dealt very well by VMs built in DRS.,We found DRS as a main strength for Turbonomic.
Turbonomic has a sandbox feature which can be used to simulate the impact a particular change in the environment may cause.
Turbonomic also does storage VMotion.
Turbonomic's new release manages workloads in all three scenarios where your environment is either in the cloud, on-prem or hybrid.,Would like to see more detailed logs.
GUI is not straightforward and might be hard to understand for beginners.
Might be a little complicated to set up the tool to function as you would need it to without professional services help.,10,Uptime,We are a small scale company and we haven't used Turbonomic to automate or deploy. I have personally tested the same and it handled all the operations well. I would ideally use it to completely automate the environment so there are less manual tasks to worry about from the systems perspective.,Veeam Availability Suite, Okta, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)Verified UserVMTurbo has great dashboards2015-11-18T22:42:15.493ZWe use VMTurbo Operations Manage to optimise our VMware estate so we can get the best performance out of it. It allows us to tune the estate to ensure all VMs are performing as well as possible.,Telling us when VMs are either over or under provisioned by looking at how they are actually used.
Telling us when hosts require upgrading.
Telling us when VMs need moving to hit our performance targets.,Setting up automation does seem tricky.
Dashboard refresh does not always seem to work automatically.,9,Cannot really put a figure on it. It did spot an issue with a host that was about to fail. It allowed us to move the VMs off without affecting users. SO I suppose that helped our customer service by not giving our users an unplanned outage.,It allows VMs to be moved to better performing hosts, or if required assign more memory/CPUs to VMs that are under performing. This greatly improves performance and IT staff efficiency. I also like how the can reduce memory/CPUs to VMs that have been over allocated too.,,ManageEngine Password Manager Pro,3,3,Ensuring optimum performance of our VMs
Checking VMs are not over or under provisioned for resource
Alerting on critical issues with our VM estate,Being able to plan for new implementations without impacting on live systems
Having a great custom dashboard on our large screen wall showing the status of our VM estate
Regular reports showing the performance of our estate emailed to us,Currently VMTurbo fulfils everything we could want it to do
Maybe a more simpler way of automating certain commands,10,Yes,Product Features
Product Usability,There is nothing I would change. We came across no other product that performed or was as simple to use as VMTurbo. Other products claimed to be able to do what VMTurbo does, but when it came to testing they were either too complicated or just could not do it,Implemented in-house,No,Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled,setting up the correct security
Setting up automation
Setting up automatic reports that get emailed out,10,10,No,Yes, we needed to know how to automate changes to the memory or CPU config within our set maintenance periods. The support team showed us how to set this up and tested it with us. Brilliant support,Setting up dashboards
Seeing with VMs are over or under resourced
resolving issues reported with VMs on hosts that need moving,Setting up automated reports
Setting up automated fixes within a maintenance period
Setting up security permissions,9Verified UserTurbocharge your environment with VMTurbo!2015-09-25T15:15:17.935ZWe are using this product to manage/balance resource usage of our entire virtual infrastructure. We are also leveraging the products ability to create one logical cluster from several to balance our workloads more effectively.,VMTurbo Operations Manager looks at MEM, CPU, IO, Net, Ready Queues, Balloon, Swap, etc when making recommendations.
Everything is fully customizable and you have the ability to keep things in a recommendation mode until you feel comfortable enough to enable automation.
Easy to deploy in minutes and receive valuable feedback/recommendations within the first hour.
Cluster flattening ability helps balance workloads across many physical clusters.,Would like to see a cleaner more attractive interface, possibly a move to HTML5.
Would also like to see more default reports, although the ability to easily add custom reports from the community is helpful.,8,Increased employee efficiency by removing most of the day to day maintenance engineers had to do prior to having VMTurbo Operations Manager.
Customer service also benefits by having a more efficient environment (no more resource congestion issues which can lead to support calls).,With the ability to create logical clusters for load balancing workloads we now do not have to focus as much on which physical cluster we put new virtual machines on, but instead simply place it and allow Turbonomics to move as needed.,,No,9,YesVerified UserEasy2015-11-24T18:22:32.480ZIt is used for planning new vms and right sizing the current ones.,Load balancing
Planning
Right sizing,Planning - would like to build multiple projects on top of each other.,8,Right sizing freeing resources
Projection on whether we can fit new projects,We used it for placement over vmware as we found it did a better job due to it holding a longer history of spikes and usages.,SolarWinds Application & Server Management,VMware ESXi, Veeam Backup & Replication,5,2,Planning future products
Right sizing
Finding bottlenecks,Planning to a point, but it still needs to be refined,Turning on more automation,9,No,Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Third-party Reviews,No, I like our eval process.,Implemented in-house,No,Change management was minimal,No real issues. It was easy.,9,9,When we started to get improper information on a host support resolved the issue within the day going into the os level of the software to resolve it.,Right sizing vm's
Viewing usages of hosts and guests
Seeing the big picture on your environment.,Forcasting/using to plan future projects,8Verified UserTurbonomic review for school district2016-10-14T15:44:48.691ZOur entire school district uses turbonomic for our VDI infrastructure. We have 350 virtual desktops on 8 hosts. We use turbonomic to load balance the resources automatically and to drill down into the data on any specific issues.,Automatically handles vmotion for all assigned desktops. It can be set to further customize ram and vCPU sizes as well.
Reporting is easy to use and access. It allows you to drill down into each virtual machine if necessary.
Provides a list of recommendations on the first panel of the customizable dashboard. It's never pushy, recommendations are just that, [you] never have to follow them.,The upfront cost is significant. After the initial purchase, the maintenance costs are very reasonable. But if they offered a basic version for less we would have definitely considered it.,10,All host resources are spread out evenly, no matter what time of day. Gives us an always optimized environment for our users.
No negative impact. If the turbonomic virtual appliance were to fail or lockup (which has only happened once), it does not cause any ill effects to the infrastructure.,We use it strictly for automatinig vmotion tasks to enable a balanced set of memory and CPU resources across our hosts. Once the parameters are set we are able to just let it work on its own, no further action is required. Also, we occasionally get into its reporting functions to verify certain vms have the resources they require.,,GFI Vipre, VMware vCenter Server,9,NoScott TrautweinTurbonomic 5.8 Application Edition2017-08-14T16:11:15.404ZTurbonomic allows us to optimize available resources to effectively use the hardware we have in place. It also gives us the ability to have almost an end to end view of the virtual space which makes troubleshooting easier. Also it reduces the 'blame game' and helps us focus in on the providing excellent service to our clients. We're starting to allow more automation and expect to see further efficiency gains with its adoption.,We use it to automate the movement and management of our VDI environments for our call center. Without Turbonomic helping us, we were able to fit more VDIs into the same amount of physical hardware.
The planning tool is also effective to allow use to predict future resource requirements based on historical growth and current usage.
Reporting is something we are proactively setting up so we can report to management and program areas on the state of their environments.,Being able to manage and report on virtual Apache systems would be a great addition. Also F5 support would be great.
New UI. The old one looks and feels dated.
The ability to more easily produce 'Show Back' and 'Shame Back' reports. Still quite a manual process for us.,8,We are early in our deployment of Turbonomic, so the ROI is being realized, just not fully yet. We have reduced our need to purchase physical servers while increasing workload on the ones we currently have deployed, and expect the tool to continue this trend for some time.,It's changed the way we manage the environments by reducing the amount of time we actually have to manage it manually. Automation is the key here.,,SolarWinds IPAM, Splunk Enterprise, Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud ControlChris SherwoodA tool that does it all!2015-10-07T21:40:28.528ZWe are currently using VMTurbo Operations Manager to analyze resource usage and follow possible load balancing recommendations based on current and past trends. It is also being utilized to automatically vmotion servers across ESXi hosts for load balancing. It is only being used by our Infrastructure team.,It provides comprehensive historical data.
Great tool to vmotion VMs based on your configured specifications.
It allows you to model possible increase or decrease of resources and see what the impact would be to your environment.,So far I have not encountered functionality that I would need and it's not implemented.,10,It allows us to quickly and efficiently identify possible problem sources.
I helps in planning upgrades by providing trends.,It allows us to manage our virtual environment automation, monitoring and trends from one location.,None,vSphere, Microsoft Office 365,3,3,Automatic resource balancing
Virtual environment resource monitoring
Virtual environment planning,None,Not sure.,10,No,Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Analyst Reports,I did not evaluate this product or select this product.,Don't know,Not sure, the product had already been implemented when I was hired.,10,Online training
Self-taught,10,I would but it really depends on how people learn, some like a more hands on approach or in person guided training.,10,None,Some - we have done small customizations to the interface,None,10,No,We needed additional guidance when we were trying to spec out our system for a possible upgrade and they jumped on the phone with us right away to walk us through all of the analysis options available in the product, they helped us create a couple of test scenarios and followed up a couple of times after the support call to make sure everything had worked out as expected.,Automation
Monitoring
Analysis,None,10,10,10,9,vsphere
ibm storage
dell storage,None at this time.,,,N/A,10,10,Not sure, I did not do the negotiation.,None.,No,Have not done it yet.,I have not looked at the new features or fixes from the new upgrade.,No,NoGabriel MunozManish Goyal - VMware Engineer - Review for Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo)2017-08-09T19:27:02.480ZWe use Turbonomic for one of our clients where we are managing around 37 ESXi hosts. Server built/decommission requests are frequent so we need a tool where we can share all such forecasting so that actual figures can be proposed to the customer. This is what we use Turbonomic for basically.,Forecasting of available resources
Resource balancing
Graphical data,On user interface
Some time interfaces are very slow and multiple refreshes are required
More option to build or decommission VM directly from the Turbonomic Console,9,ROI in terms of great reporting customer requested many times
Cost saving on hardware when a newly built request came in as we can forecast how far we can go with the setup we have
No additional tool is required for some automation tasks we can perform using Turbonomic,Definitely yes Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo) has changed the way you manage virtual and cloud environments as many of the robust tasks are being taken care by Turbonomic so IT staff can be utilized for an upper-level productive approach which can speed up customer requests coming in.Manish GoyalTurbonomics at Haufe Group2017-08-08T17:19:05.107ZWe use it to automate and optimize our VM deployments. Additionally, it gives us better insight into performance bottlenecks, as well as planning scenario capability before making purchase decisions for hardware.,Showing performance bottlenecks
Planning tools
Automated VM moves,The GUI is old school. Work has been done on the new one, but it lacks the full feature set.,9,Save hardware costs,Yes, we lowered our manual effort.,Andreas PlaulTurbonomic, can you afford to ignore it?2017-01-24T16:51:54.839ZWe use Turbonomic to fully optimize the use of our infrastructure. We also use it for health checks and assessments we perform for our customers. This allows us to meet the reduction in TCO business objective.,Use of customizable dashboards for reporting
Use of Planning Engine to explore what-if capacity planning scenarios
Workload Charts for correctly sizing application infrastructure,The current UI (Adobe Flash) is very clunky and inefficient, however their new HTML5 UI (in Demo mode) will be GA in late 2017.,9,I typically see a 30%-40% ROI in the first year.,Turbonomic should be used as a control and automation platform; just using the monitoring feature is really a waste of investment. Generally, customers should use the vMotion and Storage vMotion functionality for test and development clusters and as they gain confidence, use this in production infrastructure as well. After that, customers can start investigating the advanced use of the Policy engine to solve business and technical problems.,,Nutanix Acropolis, ServiceNow, RubrikRené van den BedemTurbonomic is nothing but Awesome!2016-09-30T17:40:11.167ZOptimizing Virtual workloads is an art all unto itself. Relying solely on user experience and VMware alone is not enough in today's environments. You need a tool and an organization that understands the underlying virtualization platform. Merely looking at VMs and their workloads is only the starting point. You don't just need the analytics of both the hosts and VMs, but the workloads within those virtual machines as well. That's why we chose Turbonomic! They helped us pull together the pieces and provide insight and analytical data by which we can make logical, sound business decisions. Decisions that can not only help reduce capex costs, but improve overall performance, stability and scalability in our virtualized environments.,SQL and Exchange analytics. Looking into these heavy workloads helps resolve performance issues and allows administrators to properly adjust thresholds and CPU/Memory settings to maximize their Virtual platforms.
Detailed recommendations. Having the details around what adjustments are needing to be made to a virtual machine is paramount in getting business owners to agree to the change. Without it - IT is merely bogged down in the sand.,Not many to really speak of except - finish the HTML5 interface - it's almost done! ;-),10,No negative impacts. The positive impacts it has had, is that we reduced our compute capex requirements by 150K. Merely using Turbonomic's for evaluating how much compute we would truly need during our refresh cycle helped drive our business decision to purchase Turbonomic.,In the past we relied on VMware DRS to make all performance related decisions as it related to the ESXi hosts. As our environments and workloads became more and more complex - we realized that we needed a tool to help us better understand where our hot spots were. With the analytical data Turbonomic provides, we are now able to scale both horizontally and vertically without jeopardizing the availability and uptime of our platforms.,,Veeam ONE, SolarWinds Virtualization ManagerKen WilkeyI'd almost rather see Turbonomic running for president2016-09-28T16:59:34.243ZMy department uses Turbonomic to get a deeper view into the inner-workings of our virtual infrastructure that we did not have previously. At the time, we were having trouble with some runaway VMs driving our IOPS way out of line, which caused major problems for our entire infrastructure. Turbonomic helped us narrow down potential suspects quickly, and get a stranglehold on the problem in far less time than it would have taken otherwise. Since then, we use it daily to help us monitor our infrastructure performance, alert/report certain events, make right-sizing recommendations, etc.,It gives me anywhere from a general overview of the entire virtual infrastructure, to specific hosts or VMs, all in one pane of glass, and with minimal navigation fuss.
The right-sizing recommendations are extremely helpful, as are the reports, in helping us fine-tune our environment so we can get the most out of it.
We have not had to contact support often, but when we have, they've been great. Very fast and knowledgeable.,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.,9,I don't really deal with counting the beans in our organization, but I can attest to the efficiency improvements we've been able to realize. We're doing more with less, which is the trend of what's expected.,We have utilized the automation functionality before, but are not currently using it. We're basically control freaks, so we look at the recommendations that Turbonomic makes, and decide whether or not to apply them. If we do apply them (which is what happens most of the time), then we apply the change from within the Turbonomic interface.,vSphere, Veeam Backup & Replication, FreeNASThomas GreenA virtual ease of mind2015-11-20T21:07:17.444ZWe use VMTurbo Operations Manager in our complete enterprise environment. It manages the virtual environment for a significant part and as a result it takes us less time to manage the virtual environment. Besides this it keeps a close eye on the use of resources and manages the spread of the load on the different hosts.,Automatic migration of VMs across ESX hosts based on policies.
Automatic storage migration based on policies.
Cutting edge reporting facilities across the virtual environment.
Cutting edge planning solution which is integrated in the Appliance. It enables you to predict impact of added systems and annual growth path predictions.,Expansion of the reporting facility will always be an improvement.
Because of its power it can also be a dangerous feature in your network when policies are poorly defined.,9,Better workload on the virtual environment.
Increased employee efficiency.
Better predictive facilities and therefore faster response times to customers when proposing new environments.,Veeam ONE and vSphere,Compellent, Quintiq, Cisco Ethernet SwitchesBart van EsVMTurbo - The Intelligence SysAdmins Have Been Waiting For2016-08-11T17:47:24.447ZVMTurbo is being used in our organization as an analytic engine to deliver intelligence to our clients. We see the value in the product and are working on a go to market strategy to package the product in an orchestration platform. The solution is attracting a lot of attention and will be a differentiator as we go to market jointly.,VMTurbo provides analytics on the current state of the environment.
VMTurbo enables recommendations for performance adjustments and optimization.
VMTurbo is the brain of our orchestration platform.,The UI can be updated.
The reports can be a bit more modern.
The views for different users can be altered for specific end user requirements.,10,All positive impacts to both technology and business.
VMTurbo has reduced CAPEx and OPEx costs for numerous customers.,VMTurbo has removed the decision process that is needed every time provisioning and placement is required. VMTurbo simplifies the process of getting a workload deployed, and reduces the time to deployment saving money. The changes in the process are minimal, the expectations and understanding of the IT environment by the application owners has been drastically reduced.,vRealize,Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Ubuntu OpenStack, vSphereDavid DeWanVMTurbo enhances our ability to manage our virtual infrastructure2016-07-22T16:43:09.070ZWe use VMTurbo to monitor and manage our VMware environment. Currently it is used by our sysops group exclusively, but we are working on ways to use the reporting capability to keep our executives apprised of the current status of our environment. The main reason we started looking at VMTurbo was because we did not have a good picture of what exactly was using all our resources in VMware and did not have a good way of seeing how the usage of resources by certain VMs was affecting the overall environment.,One of the most useful things we have found with VMTurbo is that we are able to see if we have over/under provisioned resources. Because VMTurbo keeps track of both average and peak usage, we are able to confidently assess when a VM needs more resources, or if we can take away resources and use them elsewhere because the VM was not properly sized in the beginning.
The automatic resource management is so much better than vCenter. When we set a cluster to have its CPU/Memory managed by VMTurbo, we see an immediate improvement in how the VMs are spread across ESXi hosts. This improves performance since VMTurbo is taking care of any hot spots and dynamically adjusts resources so that things are running as efficiently as possible.
Being able to get an overall view of what is consuming resources in VMware has been extremely helpful. We have seen instances so far of VMTurbo saying that we have plenty of resources in a cluster and we can remove a host, and also of cases where we the only thing you can do to remove resource contention is to add hosts to a different cluster. Being able to have statistical data to back up our decisions (which were normally based on hunches/experience) has made it easier to justify additional physical resources when needed.,The default retention for data in VMTurbo is 12 months. We have cycles in our environment that are quarterly and annually. We would love to be able to have multiple years of information easily available to us since our management is always wanting 2-3 years worth of peaks to assist in making hardware decisions. We have been told that we could expand the data retention somewhat through support, but that it may have impact on performance of VMTurbo. An easy way to expand the reporting capability to cover 3-5 years of data would be helpful.
The terminology and workflow of VMTurbo is a little overwhelming at first. It really is a very unique way of looking at things in your virtualized environment. This is not necessarily an area where they need to improve, I believe that once you understand it, it becomes very powerful in a way it could not be using just the old way of looking at things. My suggestion however is to ensure that you get and take advantage of the training/onboarding they provide so that you understand the program. Without that, many of the features will never be used because they are new to a standard virtualization admins skill set. However, they are always willing to spend time with you to make sure you understand how to do things...they are very helpful.,9,VMTurbo has had a big impact on our ability as an Infrastructure Support Team to identify areas where we are wasting money. One example is that we had 14 specific app servers that each had 64GB of memory assigned to them. We suspected that they were over provisioned, but the reasons we were giving for our suspicions were not accepted very well by the business. They wanted to ensure that their app would perform well, and they felt that they needed those resources to do it. After running VMTurbo for a few months, we were able to show them that we had way too much memory provisioned for those servers and we were able to consolidate down to 7 servers with 64GB of memory per. The next step is to show them that each of the servers can now go down to 32GB of memory, but we go 1 step at a time. We are finding many other instances where VMs are over provisioned and this is going to allow us to actually purchase less hardware this next year.
We have had multiple instances where we have used VMTurbo as a troubleshooting tool in order to find issues in our environment. For example, we were having some storage performance issues on a certain datastore and we were able to go into VMTurbo and see which VM on that datastore was using those resources the most. It turned out to be a VM that should never have been using that much, and after working with the app admin we found that a process was freaking out and not working the way it was supposed to. They fixed that and the usage went down considerably. Without VMTurbo, it would have been much more difficult to find the particular VM that was impacting the datastore.,The automatic placement of VMs is a really cool feature of VMTurbo. I have found that vCenter does a really poor job of deciding through DRS what VMs should be where. We would frequently find a cluster where 2/3 of the ESXi hosts were using about 80% of memory, and the other 1/3 were only at 15%. In addition some of the VMs on the busy servers were ballooning and swapping memory, while there were plenty of resources available elsewhere in the cluster. As soon as we turn on VMTurbo automatic placement on a cluster, we see results. Usually we find that by the next day, all the VMs in that cluster are evenly distributed (based on utilization) across the ESXi hosts. We have not been able to automate all of our clusters yet, but the business is starting to see the benefit of that and allow us to automate things where they were not willing to before because of concern over Change Management and things like that.,Anthony DarlingVMturbo saving time and money!2016-06-22T20:01:10.982ZWe initially used VMTurbo for the plan function which enabled us to run DR scenarios based on our live environment workload and its ability to run on fewer hosts at out DR site. We soon found that we could do much more around how our VMware environment was utilizing resources and have managed to reduce our host footprint creating much needed savings. We are now taking this same approach to consolidate and re-provision our storage, again supporting potential large savings in future storage investments.
VMTurbo has enabled us to better understand our VMware environment and we are managing it in a more efficient manner and I would recommend the investment to anyone.,Planning scenarios for DR and new virtual server provisioning.
Making better use of available resources and reducing costs through over provisioning.
Understanding storage bottlenecks and which VMs are your storage 'bullies'.,It can sometimes be difficult to see the wood for the trees when it is alerting on so much information especially when some of it you can ignore.
Having to manually configure differing storage types to ensure it is using the correct parameters for its recommendations, can be complicated.
Policy configuration to get the most out of the product can be daunting and requires a good understanding of your virtual environment.,10,Reduced the need to expand our physical server footprint for the past 2 years.
Reduced our VMware support renewal due to a reduction in license use - spare hosts have been removed from the cluster.
VMs that suppliers had over spec'd are now correctly sized reducing host resource use and in some cases improving performance.,We have enabled VMturbo to manage workload placement which has provided great benefits even over DRS however their is still a reluctance in operations to allow it to resize servers. It is hoped that as confidence builds with the operations team using the product that this fantastic feature can be enabled.
VMturbo has improved confidence in the way we see and understand our virtual environments and supported a much simpler capacity management process.,,SolarWinds IPAM, NetApp FAS series, Tintri, VMware ESXi, Citrix NetScaler, Citrix NetScaler Access Gateway, AirWatch, AppSense, Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution, ExtraHopJonathan MurdenSolid Product That May Not Be For Everyone2016-09-23T16:09:46.300ZWe have about three of us who use it but, unfortunately, we do not use it all of the time. Those above us were really happy about the reports it could produce but even they have had limited time to delve into them. My teammates and I do not use Turbonomic on a daily basis but, when there are questions about individual VM resources, we are able to look at specifics within Turbonomic.Unfortunately, since we do not use it daily, we often have a difficult time remembering where certain things are located within the software.All in all, it is a good, solid product, but its functionality does not mesh perfectly with our current operating environment.,Individual VM resource metrics
The reporting capability is quite large and comprehensive
The ability to run "what if" sequences is very handy,The UI can be confusing due to all of the things that the software can do--it can be difficult to find functions.
The 24-hour period that you have to wait through after making changes is not optimal.
Turbonomic's calculations for N+1 and headroom can be faulty--they might require some tweaking from the defaults before they give proper results.,7,We have been able to save some virtual resources.
It has been time-consuming to try to use Turbonomic.
We have not used the software nearly as much as we thought we would.,At first, we used Turbonomic's automated placement feature and we allowed it to move VMs around at its discretion. We ended up disabling it at most sites because it was violating policies that we had in place to prevent problems. As far as automated provision and sizing, we have not used these features.,,VMware vCenter ServerSean FrazierTurbonomic manage and optimize my multi hypervisors enviroments2016-09-12T17:09:04.023ZTurbonomic is helping us to manage from one unique point of access all our Virtual Infrastracture (Vmware, HyperV, Xenserver). Now we know which Applications are needing compute components (CPU, RAM, IOPS), and when, both in real time and historical.
The other important use is we are confident with Turbonomic to manage our virtual machine to resize, move, stop, and suspend VMs and hypervisors servers depending on the workload. At this time we can work with our head to do work of IT planning for Axion Energy.,Move, Resize, Suspend VM where there are compute resources cheap, free, and available.
Brind information about how is working virtual infrastructure (CPU, Memory) from one unique access point in realtime and history.
Make best recommendation for a healthy virtual infrastructure.,Turbonomic is working with Flash and a browser to manage the infrastructure, it has a nice dashboard and it's very easy to create custom dashboards, but all web applications are going to HTML5. It is very important to mention that current are very friendly for System Administrators to take ownership.
Turbonomic works great with Vmware and Xenserver, but it isn't friendly with HyperV 2012. I know the problem is VMM and Microsoft. For this case Turbonomic depends on VMM connection and statistics. In Turbonomic we can't see Memory metrics of VM hosted in HyperV 2012.
We have been using it for 3 months and have found issues in Turbonomic.,10,We are saving CapEx cost of hardware investments. We have 29 Blade Servers and they are going to be consolidated into only 9 Blades.
We are saving OpEx cost of management of our system administrators; we have information in realtime and automate activities to have healthy applications.
We detected a lot of wasted space in storage in vhd, vmdx orphans files.,We didn't have information about our virtual infrastructure, to optimize the environment. Rather, we consistently bought a lot of servers to solve application performances issues.,,System Center Operations Manager, Nagios, VMmanager, vRealize OperationsAriel DuparAutomation of the future2016-08-29T18:16:02.964ZWe currently have VMturbo deployed into our prod and dev environments, supporting around 4500 VMs, 360 hosts, and it's doing fantastic. It's literally a night and day difference to back when we just relied on DRS automation that is built into VMware. We can automate store and host/VM resources. We can create pools and rule and alerts, so many different things to automate everything for us, and to give us more insight into our environment and ongoing issues than we've ever really seen before. The graphs/charts are fantastic to be able to see everything in a single pane of glass.,Storage + resource automation. Think of DRS but times 100. Its everything you ever wanted DRS to be.
Reports/performance charts/etc - it's to the ms, to the byte, to the decimal. It's fantastic reporting for every vm, host, datastore, everything.
Automation - it's really automated, not just suggestions that you have to act on, and with rules you can shape it to anything you want, however you want it to act on different things, exactly as you would if you were....100 people staring at the monitor 24/7.,The GUI - the GUI at the version I am on is somewhat lacking in finesse.
The dashboards are sometimes not perfect, maybe if they did a survey of what their users would like to see it could improve it.,9,It's allowed us to save a ton of resources.
It's notified us of several disk space outages that would have caused prod VMs to go down.
It's moved VMs to other hosts to prevent resource contentions.,We have come to rely on VMturbo heavily in these past years, we aren't actually sure what we'd do without it at this point. We have changed how we ourselves manage it all. As instead of spending hundreds of hours monitoring and moving and changing things ourselves, we instead log in to VMturbo to make sure it's still working as we intend it to do, 5% of the effort of doing all this manually.,VMware DRS,vSphereKevin HelvestineVMTurbo - Simplicity and Ease of Use2016-06-23T18:54:05.477ZWe are currently very conservative in our implementation of VMTurbo. Not because we have reservation about the product but rather because we are careful in how we implement changes of RAM, CPU, etc. We tend to use the product within the IT group that manages operations. The biggest problem that VMTurbo has solved for us is that we can now very easily manage application administrators' expectations as well as be able to thoroughly review if the request for more resources is warranted. It is shocking how much better a graph that says "No, you aren't currently using what you have so it does not appear you need more resources" works vs. trying to just say that. It also allows us to forecast how our resources are being used and how they can better be used.,Ease of graph creation for a variety of functions - Everyone loves a good graph from application owners to management to end users when necessary.
Ease of installation - No one wants to spend hours and hours setting up and maintaining a product that is supposed to make your life easier. VMTurbo very easily sets up a single appliance. Unlike products that require Windows, you simply have a web interface that updates the software and it is generally done in 15 minutes or less.
Ease of recommendations - While we do not automatically implement the recommendations, which the product is fully capable of, we do actively find their recommendation to be on target and easy to understand.,Snapshots - It does not have a way to find and track snapshots. It is the major thing that I could really use so that I could just automate a report.
Certificates - While the setting of a certificate is not that hard from the command line, I wouldn't mind seeing a web interface to update one so I could delegate that responsibility.
Active Directory integration for multiple DCs - I'd love if I could point to multiple domain controllers for fail over. I plan on implementing a round robin DNS to try to get around this but I'd prefer if it was an option to make life easier.,9,While we have not implemented it yet, we are looking into how it will help move things to the cloud. We expect it to help us to properly size VMs before we implement them there.
It has allowed us to see when/where we need additional resources.,As of right now, we have not implemented automation.,Foglight,VMware vCenter Server, VMware Horizon View, Microsoft System Center Configuration ManagerCorinne Peterman
Windows, Linux, Mac
Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo)
165 Ratings
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