Turbonomic
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Turbonomic, an IBM Company
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What is Turbonomic?
Turbonomic, an IBM Company, provides Application Resource Management (ARM) software used by customers to assure application performance and governance by dynamically resourcing applications across hybrid and multicloud environments.
Turbonomic Features
- Supported: Software makes resourcing decisions for you
- Supported: Specific actions you can safely automate when ready
- Supported: Supports cloud native, cloud, hybrid and multicloud
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Turbonomic Integrations
- Amazon Web Services
- Cisco UCS Manager
- Dynatrace
- Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage
- HPE OneView
- IBM PowerVM
- Instana
- Istio
- Kubernetes
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- New Relic
- Amazon EKS
- AWS Billing
- Azure AKS
- Azure Application Insights
- Cisco AppDynamics
- Cisco Tetration
- Dell EMC XtremIO
- EMC ScaleIO
- Google GKE
- HPE 3PAR
- Microsoft Enterprise Agreement
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- NetApp
- NetFlow
- Nutanix
- NetApp
- Pure Storage
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- ServiceNow
- VMware Horizon VDI
- VMware vCenter
Turbonomic Competitors
- CloudHealth by VMware
- CloudCheckr
- Densify
- VMware vRealize Operations
Turbonomic Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 10% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 40% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 50% |
Turbonomic Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, SaaS |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | English |
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Who uses Turbonomic?
The most common users of Turbonomic are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.
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Turbonomic help to ensure my organization's applications get the resources they need to perform at their level best. Enhance a complete understanding of the application and infrastructure stack, which enables us to automate actions and prevent resource congestion across our hybrid cloud environment. I like that Turbonomic increases our IT productivity by automatically managing resources based on real-time demand which drives continuous performance and enables our application and infrastructure teams to shift their priorities which delivers a better experience for our end users.
- Turbonomic unite Application and our infrastructure teams.
- Makes easy application-driven decisions. By using AI-driven actions our applications get the right resources they need to perform at their level best.
- Increase our IT productivity. By automatically managing resources based on real-time demand.
- Turbonomic has limited reporting capabilities.
- Some basic features are missing like pausing VM placement during maintenance Window.
April 26, 2022
Some minor touches are needed to be presented
Monitoring of network performance is what value we get from using Turbonomic as it provides outstanding reporting and visualization to follow the process precisely. It enhances our business process by providing an amazing control mechanism that also can deliver the observation capabilities to acquire valuable insights from the Turbonomic. The increasing trend of the network in our process increases the contribution of the software hugely.
- Visualization and dashboards
- Simulations
- Troubleshooting
- Suggestions
- Learning curve
- Pricing policy
- UI is terrible
- Limits in reporting
April 20, 2022
Super user experience, Aim to Improve our Applications Performance, for effective Business Optimization and Cost reduction.
Turbonomic is the most trusted, powerful all-in-one application resource management platform which delivers continuous optimization for public cloud, private cloud, and Kubernetes. My experience is great and very innovative, over the past 1 year and so we use this for applications resources to perform at the level best while satisfying our business constraints. Customer service and support have been amazing, never let us down even a single day.
- Leverage AI to eliminate manual troubleshooting, firefighting, and other labor-intensive aspects of operations.
- Our IT is able to confidentially modernize applications, adopt new cloud and container-based technologies and accelerate release cycles without fear of cost overruns or performance degeneration.
- Great User-experience, and innovative support team.
- Price was initially something that made our pockets empty over and over before realizing the benefits of using this platform. It has greatly digitized our business through leveraging AI to eliminate manual troubleshooting, firefighting, and other platforms which are cost-effective.
April 08, 2022
Turbos for your Virtual Machines.
We are using Turbonomic in IT as our primary Application Resource management. We use the IBM cloud suite in our company for IaaS and so we expected the Turbonomic integration to be flawless, which was the case. We use Turbonomic to have full-stack visibility of our applications to optimize the performance of our virtual machines. We are also using the software analytics engine to view our application's exposed data.
- It works well in reducing resource congestion in our cloud environment with smooth migrations.
- It automatically manages cloud resources with no downtimes boosting our productivity IT-wise.
- It's an uphill task to turn off some unneeded features eg unused monitors.
March 23, 2022
Save Costs and Time
We used Turbonomic for a client job unsettling with a high number of queries to be analyzed against possible factors which are resulting in server management issues. Turbonomic helped us in narrowing down the troublesome players in the virtual could which could be possibly responsible for higher costs in deployments. We were able to save around 3000$ monthly per server for a client after fixing the issues thereon.
- Cost Optimisation
- Cloud Template Generation
- Issue Investigation
- Resource Utilisation
- Automation
- UI and UX
March 11, 2022
Very Useful in Managing Healthy Virtual Environment
Turbonomic is used as an automated tool for VMware vSphere account migration and hardware capacity planning. It also allows us to monitor performance and notify service owners when we encounter shortcomings.
- Workload analysis and reporting
- High level scaling of VMware
- Automation
- When I used it in the past I remember it lacks customization and there was no integration available with BI tools.
- It's not so intuitive and complex to understand.
March 09, 2022
Turbonomic
By using of this we can ensure that our data might be safe or secure and unshareable to others vendors or the third party without our permission. Ease to detect and remediate application performance issues. this product increases IT productivity. this is easy to use and easy to understand the users.
- Better reach application to improve the cutomize performance.
- unite applications and infrastructure team.
- increases the it productivity.
- don't see any negtive effect of this product.
- May be sometimes issue of Network thing because it's take high connectivity,i guess.
- make applications driven decision.
February 28, 2022
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Turbonomic is useful to help us manage the computational resources in our data center and I have significantly increased our VM deployments in recent years without ensuring optimal resource utilization. Turbonomic is very effective at identifying patterns that allow me to identify problematic players who consume a lot of resources and graphically depict the health of my virtual environment. Turbonomic gives me the ability to drill down into each virtual machine as needed and It is the best tool that offers great features like cloud management. Turbonomic can pull data from the entire set of resources that comprise my VMware environment e.g. compute, storage, and so on, and provide me with a comprehensive view of everything I have and where the bottlenecks are.
February 15, 2022
Nice interface - may have too many options
VMTurbo Operations Manager is being used to monitor 10 hosts and ~150 virtual machines; along with three storage architectures used as a back-end. This software is only used at my department level, and is not deployed on a large scale in my institution. VMTurbo Operations Manager is used from time to time to troubleshoot VMware infrastructure issues.
- Easy to navigate the interface.
- Easy to install.
- Constantly being updated.
- My biggest complaint is that the sales team is very pushy to make a sale and to renew software maintenance very early.
February 12, 2022
Turbonomic - An Extra Tool In The Toolbox
Turbonomic is used as an automation utility for VMware vSphere compute migrations as well as hardware capacity planning. It also allows us to monitor performance and report to service owners when experiencing pain-points or bottlenecks.
- Detailed workload analysis
- Powerful policy management
- Future planning tools
- Product update/upgrades
- Policy creation/modification
February 12, 2022
Head to AIOps and enjoy!
Turbonomic helps with supporting application resource management and network performance data incorporating machine learning to help create a microservices architecture where AIOps is addressing the need to remove legacy applications. It's been able to allow to monitor across multiple service lines as storage and database capabilities while automating many tasks. It also supports virtual machine setup.
- Automation.
- Scaling VM's.
- Data analytics.
- Turning off some features at times may take some work, but feasible.
- More ways for targeting resources to make it more GUI-friendly.
- Reporting to be customized views (for some).
February 11, 2022
Even Germany is fond of VMTurbo
We are using VMTurbo Operations Manager locally at our site to manage the whole virtualized infrastructure, which is comprised of storage and servers. We are also using it for monitoring general performance, and optimizing resources to address performance problems and to optimize our financial Investments. This has given me a better insight into the really complex architecture of VM. The graphics are smart and you can configure everything to your needs. Technical support is provided from the Irish Islands which makes communication for a non-native speaker a bit challenging, but we manage. Setting policies first is a critical point where a lot of care has to be taken. The policies have to reflect business needs and requirements. Limitations or regulations which are in place have to be reflected in the monitoring process. After 60 days we received a very clear picture about our environment and were able to accept proposals (usually moving servers to underutilized areas) or work on our policies. The feedback from our administrators was great. We now have to work on even better utilization of our resources. As IT is the only unit able to manage the VM environment nobody else has access to the application. But I share images of the app to the management circle. Green bars a more understandable than bare figures.
- General and detailed view on VM utilization. Easy to understand, due to smart and very usable icons and graphics. Layout and dashboards are easy to adjust.
- Recommendations on better utilization proved helpful. Being a little bit anxious at first we tried some small actions and learned fast that VMTurbo Operations Manager is a smart tool which is absolutely reliable.
- We are not experts on this tool, but you can easily start and grow into it.
- Better and more technically detailed Information on all monitors would be appreciated.
- Training sessions on a more frequent basis would be fine.
January 07, 2022
Highly recommend Turbo for your company
We are using Turbo to manage and streamline our cloud footprint. We have seen a lower cost footprint as well as assistance in organizing our environment and making it clear to all of our users how the cloud costs the company and how to make better decisions on its use.
- Lower cost.
- Expose risk.
- Organize savings by category.
- Lowers cloud spending commit.
- Most of my recommendations have already been implemented in the new Turbo8.
- Auto update feature.
January 06, 2022
[In my opinion,] New version is terrible
We use it in our VMware environment.
- Was a good product
- [In my opinion,] Old classic version was much better
- No further comment
- [In my experience,] The support has gone downhill.
- [I feel,] The new version still has so many issues.
- The mitigation of the log4j vulnerability continues to be a pain.
November 16, 2021
Amazing application and resource management product
Turbonomic is used in the entire organization to streamline workflow and monitor data from all sources. It monitors [the] performance of our applications, lowers [the] cost of production, and maintains compliance. It brings together all teams and managers to work under the same policies that enhance teamwork and develop mutual understanding. It controls performance and gives clear data on the progress of each department offering solutions to any challenge.
- Data analysis
- Performance monitoring
- I have not experienced any new feature that can be added to this great tool.
- All the functionality tools works effectively.
November 15, 2021
It's Turbo Time.
Turbonomic provides operational excellence providing insight into workload consumption driving cost-optimal decisions without starving compute resources required to meet application requirements. Actions are implemented through automated orchestration removing the need to tie up critical engineer hours that would otherwise be taxed with manually scaling up or down resources. Changes to workloads are automated after hours as a turnkey execution. Optimization actions are tracked to calculate ongoing ROI for justification. Turbonomic removes the need to have specialized skilled engineers review ingested metric data to develop cost optimization configurations in an ever changing fluid public cloud paradigm. Turbonomic provides and acts on designs based on actual utilization metrics and scales accordingly with cost in mind removing the second guessing as to which compute sku is most optimal cost prohibited choice. Turbonomic takes the guess work out of resource allocation.
- Right sizing recommendations based on actual utilization with historic analysis.
- Automation of recommended actions. No complex programing required.
- Clear insight into projected usage metrics post recommended change implementation.
- Lacks custom role based permissions. Only allows assigning permissions based on specific built in roles.
- Business intelligence reporting could be better. No Power BI integration.
- Grafana integration available but requires advanced experience.
November 14, 2021
Getting use from Turbonomic
Here at BCD Travel, we use Turbonomic to monitor and slightly manage the virtual environments, as well as troubleshooting, capacity planning, and reporting. Turbonomic is being used globally for all virtual environments. It is has helped us troubleshoot resource constraints in some environments, capacity plan for the next hardware refresh, monitor the health of the networking, storage, and compute resources for our environments, and the reporting has helped us stay efficient with our resources.
- Monitoring
- Troubleshooting
- Capacity planning
- Reporting
- Reporting could get better. Maybe talk with customers to find what better out-of-the-box reports could be added.
- Capacity planning is a little tough to navigate sometimes. Sometimes you have to be creative to get the answer you want.
- Maybe more info from the networking aspect. Something around being able to dive deeper in the switches that are attached to Turbonomic.
November 07, 2021
Turbonomic Rocks the Virtual Management World!
Virtual 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.
- They have expanded the capabilities of the product to now include support for virtual machines running in cloud service providers. This provides a "single pane of glass" view into all of the virtual machines, and their performance, for an organization. Without it, there would be a need to log into various portals to look and analyze performance across the environment.
- They have moved their model from an per CPU pricing model to a per virtual machine subscription model if you want to be able to move to the latest and greatest versions. With many organizations moving to cloud, this is understandable, one of the primary reasons for the original purchase was to move off of vCOPs per virtual machine licensing model to a straight per CPU model. This prevented the need for budgeting due to increasing numbers of virtual machines throughout the year.
- The newest models do not always include monitoring of all types of storage arrays. We moved to a DellEMC Unity about 5 years ago, and as of our last renewal, they still did not have that as a supported array for the storage module. Therefore, we dropped the licensing for this module.
We use the planning features of VMTurbo Operations Manger to make sure that our environment is sized appropriately. Using VMTurbo Operations Manager we can see current headroom in the current environment and can simulate added growth - either by copying current VM configurations, using a standard VM configuration, or creating custom configurations. VMTurbo Operations Manager will then model that environment and show me the number of hosts required to support it. The same tool is useful when planning hardware upgrades for the hosts supporting the environment.
- There is no replacement for the planning tool offered in VMTurbo Operations Manager. I know how much growth my current environment can support and can model anticipated growth to budget future hardware purchases.
- The ease of deploying and upgrading VMTurbo Operations Manager.
- The sizing recommendations are helpful.
- The storage waste report is helpful in identifying orphaned files that are using disk capacity.
- The Wasted Storage report is helpful but requires additional work to go remove the files that are reported. It seems like this process could be simplified to make it easier to execute actions to free that space.
- The interface can take some time to learn and understand. Some dashboards make sense right away, others take time and further research to understand.
November 05, 2021
Why I use Turbonomic...
We 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. The product is used primarily by our IT team but the reporting is shared across the organization as a whole.
- 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
October 08, 2021
Great tool for modeling resource consumption
We use Turbonomic on the Openshift Platform primarily, but testing it in our HCI context as well. We use Turbonomic to address 2 key problems; (1) to right-size containers which developers typically ask for XL and (2) capacity plan for the size of the Openshift cluster itself - here we are calculating resource consumption and growth.
- Right-size container.
- Capacity planning through proper resource utilization.
- Feed resource consumption to finance system.
- Better usage of consumption stats to find a consistent costing model - containers can be quite dynamic.
- Better understanding of CPU throttling impact on the whole application stack.
We 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.
We 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.
We 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.
September 23, 2017
VMTurbo has great dashboards
We 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.