IBM Turbonomic

We use Turbonomic to monitor and help manager our vmWare environment for our organization. It allows us to best utilize our hardware to ensure the best possible performance for all of our users while at the same time getting the most possible use out of our hardware. Turbonomic has allowed us to use fewer Host servers but at the same time allow the users the best performance by choosing which servers aren't being used to their full ability and which are being over used. It monitors and lets us know when to move a virtual machine to a different host with more resources if needed or vice versa in the case where we don't need as many resources. Turbonomic also has the capabilities of automating the entire process. This allows the network team to concentrate on other projects because Turbonomic will continue to keep our vmWare environment consistently running at its best.

We use VMTurbo Operations Manager on two different Horizon View Clusters comprising 34 total ESX Hosts. One of the clusters uses a VMAX storage backend and we bought VMTurbo initially to try and level out the storage contention and stabilize performance. We also have a McAfee security scan that kicks off every Monday afternoon and wreaks havoc on the environment. VMTurbo Operations Manager has helped to aggressively move the VMs from one host to another to balance out the CPU/RAM loads when everything pings 100% during that 3 hour period. Obviously we need to move to hypervisor scanning eventually but VMTurbo Operations Manager is an excellent bandaid in the meantime :) We also use VMTurbo Operations Manager on our new cluster running on Pure Storage all flash and we use it primarily to resize VMs based on usage. We have a variety of different users and some require more CPU/RAM than others. We no longer have to manually resize these VMs. It's entirely automated and makes my job a whole lot easier :)

We are currently using VMTurbo Operations Manger to manage our 3 vSphere clusters across two data centers. It has been a great help with balancing cluster utilization, vm resizes and capacity planning. I had always used VMWare's VDS but VMTurbo's recommendations are far superior.

VMTurbo Operations Manager helps us address issues before they happen. It helps us with deploying new machines to make sure we have the proper specs for the required new system.

As a skeleton team with a limited budget and increasing demands, I've looked for solutions that will assist me to get most of my virtual environment without spending more on expensive hardware and licenses, And also minimize hand work, monitoring the system, leaving me more time for other tasks, VMturbo cost us a fraction of the price we planned to pay with adding more server and the vmware/microsoft/veam licenses and gave us the breathing gap we needed,

VMTurbo Operations Manager is currently in use for our production systems. VMTurbo Operations Manager has helped the IT department automate some functions that required manual intervention. The time saved has allowed us to focus on priority projects and has given us an insight into how the virtual systems can be better optimized for the highest performance and reliability. By analyzing workloads and predicting possible resource contention and problems, VMTurbo Operations Manager has brought our optimization to its highest point which otherwise would have required someone to monitor VMware 24/7 with minor results compared to VMTurbo.

We use VMTurbo to right size our new VMs. We also use VMTurbo to move VMs to the host that will best provide CPU and RAM to the VM. We have gained further knowledge of how we can improve our VM performance and where to add resources as well as planning for the future.

It is a great product that was introduced to us by one of our value-added resellers. VMTurbo Operations Manger makes managing our complicated VM clusters easier and helps us balance our workloads. If you have multiple physical VM servers then then VMTurbo Operations Manager is a must.

We use VMTurbo Operations Manager for taking care of day to day operations basically, and review both changes and proposed optimization changes once a week. Basically we now have higher quality on our virtualized environment.

VMTurbo Operations Manger is being used across the whole corporate organization. Central management [is done] by IT Operations. We use it primarily to manage our entire corporate vCenter.

We are monitoring our host loads and VM distribution, VM sizings, and performance reporting for our executive team. As far as I know, we are the only department using the product. We use VMTurbo Operations Manager to keep from over provisioning our hosts and VMs. We also use it to seek and find groups of VMs with like characteristics and publish applications to them that fit the available processor and memory availability. Our VMTurbo team is constantly coming up with new views and statistics that are needed to do the next years projected needs, it's a great forecasting tool.

VMTurbo Operations Manager is being used by our IT department to monitor resource consumption and provide recommendations on how best to utilize these resources.

We use VMTurbo Operations Manager to manage our vSphere cluster that hosts the server workload for our organization. It provides load balancing across the hosts in the cluster using different metrics than DRS (VMWare native functionality) and automatically vmotions machines as appropriate to keep the cluster load evenly distributed while respecting the pinned workloads that we have defined using affinity rules. We also use it for planning purposes which has allowed us to achieve greater density without the guess work of how much load is too much for existing resources.

We use VMTurbo Operations Manager in our Global VMware farm, which is used by potentially 55K employees, to ensure we can provide not only the levels of service they expect but to also preempt any issues before they become a problem.

Right now we have a service catalog request to review VM performance on a machine by machine basis. This allows us to focus on customer pain quickly and easily make judgement on next steps to resolve issues. We also use it to help justify our cost model by efficiently assigning resources to virtual machines while minimizing performance impacts to the environment.

We are fairly new to VMturbo, Its being used by out VM team only for now. We specifically use it for Reporting and Evaluation for requests that come in for allocating servers. We use VMturbo as a means of justification for these requests.

VMTurbo Operations Manager is being used across our whole organization. VMTurbo helped us during our migration from a non converged physical and virtual infrastructure to a converged virtual one. We used the capacity planner to determine what we needed by way of compute, storage etc., based on current usage as well as projections for future use and were able to successfully migrate off our old infrastructure without any issues whatsoever. Before we purchased VMTurbo Operations Manager, we used to rely solely on historical data as well as stakeholders of the systems for system specifications. Oftentimes systems were over-spec'd. With VMTurbo Operations Manage however even when systems are over-spec'd, after a period of learning, the environment it is able to provide recommendations to help with right-sizing the environment to enhance efficiency.

VMTurbo Operations Manager is used across all of our production VMware clusters. We have disabled native VMware DRS migrations, favoring VMTurbo's methodology for balancing. The reason we selected VMTurbo Operations Manager was to maximize our host server investment to move towards a higher VMware density level. We are using it to balance workload on our host servers, recommend hardware changes, and forecast future scale and workload.

VMTurbo Operations Manager is being used across our organization to help automate our VDC environment. It assists us with our capacity planning and reporting, and adds another layer of metrics for us to put into consideration. I have been very happy with what VMTurbo Operations Manager has brought to the table, and helped with my day to day duties.

VMTurbo Operations Manager helps us keep our VDI and server clusters balanced based on load demands for compute and storage. It handles vMotions 24x7x365 without any interactions from technicians. It helps us utilize our physical infrastructure to the fullest. The other main issue it helps us resolve is giving users and servers the compute and other resources they need when they need it and then reduce them when they are not needed.

The product is being used between two groups at the Office of Physical Plant at Penn State University. The product eases the strain of little resources to manage two large VMware infrastructures. We currently have several tasks automated to maintain performance and efficiency. We are beginning to utilize the Capacity/Planning functions to address our current growth rate of the storage system. As the supervisor, the reports help me make decisions on where we need to be in the next year, including budgeting.

We use VMTurbo Operations Manager to manage our virtualized workloads by providing us in depth analysis of resource usage trends to determine when and where we would run into problems down the road. VMTurbo Operations Manager's automation capabilities allow me to run lean in our department, saving the company money and my sanity. The major problem VMTurbo Operations Manager solves for us is understanding our virtual environment better, allowing for better future planning through the capacity planning module and shows us (or in most cases, automatically dealing with) pain points and problems in our infrastructure. It's like having a Swiss army knife for your datacenter.

We leverage the capabilities of VMTurbo Operations Manager across our entire VMWare environment to assist with diagnosing issues and automatically implement changes based on recommendations from the software.

This product is used by our SaaS Operations Team to optimize our virtual environment. Within the first week of using VMTurbo Operations Manager we were able to decommission two unnecessary hosts in our VMware environment, and have since decommissioned a third host. That brought us immediate cost savings, as we are currently in a hosted environment where we lease our equipment. It allows us to more efficiently use the hardware and eliminate congestion on hosts.

We are a global service provider in the cloud space and utilize VMTurbo Operations Manager across each of our virtual instances. We place significant value in the role VMTurbo Operations Manager plays in ensuring performance, up-time and application availability for our customers and would recommend it to anyone running a virtualized environment either internally or public facing.