IBM Turbonomic

We needed a product that is well designed and works out the box. That understands how IT instructure works and what challenges infta teams suffer with

Cost savings to help with our cloud sprawl and ongoing rising costs.

Rather than being licensed based on each virtual machine, Turbonomic is licensed based on the number of processors in the environment. The allows the annual cost for maintenance to remain relatively flat. The product offers a wide variety of features that not only allow for better monitoring and performance adjustments, but also have the ability to plan for future use and consumption. However, the depth the product goes can mean it will take some time to get it fully configured to the environment. While defaults are built in, these may not be accurate depending on the size of the environment. For example, the default IOPS provided may be less than what the current system can handle. This is especially true if you have a large SAN or NAS array.

We initially only wanted the free dashboard. But once the vendor showed us what else we could do with the product, we were sold. It has made a huge impact on the way we manage our estate. We could not believe that VMTurbo could report on over or under resourced VMs, or on hosts that were under pressure

A usable product that does what they say it can do without a mess of configuration needed to do so.

Product Usability is key in our purchasing decisions, we have to make sure the product does what we expect and we get the appropriate ROI, it should also allows us to work more efficiently with less available resources.

It does what it says it can do. Stabilize an environment

Automation of optimal resource utilization.

Functionality at the price point.

I had used the product at a previous company and valued what the product could do for automating tasks.

We tested the product in our environment and watched it boost performance and balance our environment very well.

The powerful utilization types of custom reporting and recommendations made possible by the whole stack "consumer model" is unique. Same thing for volumes having IOPs "capacity" that is consumed upstream by a certain percentage of what can be reasonably expected from them. No considered alternative used such a model or had such capabilities.

We decided on VMTurbo because of a few things: features, usability, and price. VMTurbo gives us more bang for the buck over some other well known VM products.

The ability for it to automate our environment and help us maximize existing resources