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IBM Turbonomic

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What is IBM Turbonomic?

IBM Turbonomic 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. IBM states that Turbonomic…

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February 08, 2023
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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 …
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IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Optimization Essentials

$3,333

Cloud
per month per installation

IBM® Turbonomic Hybrid Standard (Software)

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On Premise
per month Advanced hybrid cloud optimization capabilities for customers with 200 managed virtual servers (MVS) or more

IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Standard

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Cloud
per month For customers with more than $2 million USD annual cloud spend

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $3,333 per month per installation
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Product Demos

IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #6 Process Integration Digital Transformation

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IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #5 Deep Integrations Greater Savings

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IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #4 Automation at Scale

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IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #3 Continuous Cost Optimization

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IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #2 Decisions, Not Alerts

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IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #1 Quick and Simple Set Up

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Product Details

What is IBM Turbonomic?

IBM Turbonomic 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. IBM states that Turbonomic customers report an average 33% reduction in cloud and infrastructure waste without impacting application performance, and return-on-investment of 471% over three years over not using a cloud cost optimization solution. For organizations practicing FinOps, IBM Turbonomic helps accelerate the Optimize and Operation phases of the FinOps journey.


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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 Action Center, a display of 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 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 viewl 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.

IBM Turbonomic Videos

Turbonomic in 2 minutes: Optimizing performance and cost across public, private, hybrid and multicloud
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IBM Turbonomic Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

IBM Turbonomic starts at $3333.

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Reviewers rate Availability and Online Training and Configurability highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of IBM Turbonomic are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

IBM Turbonomic Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)25%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)25%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)50%
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Reviews and Ratings

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February 14, 2016

VMTurbo Review

Tarun Verma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's nice to have VMTurbo Operations Manager; it is helping us with expanding our environment with existing unused resources.
  • Suggests if resources are not being efficiently and should be reduced wherever required.
  • Takes action based on defined rules rather just reporting an alert.
  • Effective Reporting.
  • Doing good so far, I do not have anything that I can suggest at this moment.
VMTurbo Operations Manager is well suited where you want to know if an environment is up to its appropriate utilization.
  • Help identifying and can utilize unused resources.
It takes action rather just reporting as alert.
Information Technology.
MS Windows, Citrix, AD
  • Based on the defined VM templates we were able to see the snapshot of available capacity.
  • Many of the servers resources under utilized and VMTurbo could report those to revoke unused resources and increase capacity
  • Reporting is the key information provider for management and give high level view resources being used.
  • Before VMTurbo, no reporting of Hardware infrastructure.
  • Were able to use available resources efficiently
  • Can manage many options from single console.
  • Optimum usage of available resources.
  • Will help defining IT strategies and IT budgeting.
  • Can automate action to save unused resources.
Its useful and practical in live environments.
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
Automation of optimal resource utilization.
Test and deploy if satify IT users.
  • Vendor implemented
No
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
Planned change.
  • Not applicable.
Pretty useful for BAU operational support
  • Online training
  • In-person training
  • Self-taught
Experienced trainers. Onsite training and hands on lab at seminars really good.
lot of contents are available including blogs.
yes, as help content pretty descriptive and covers most of the contents.
Though expect to add more features in future, current version covers most of the current requirements.
Not really, but people can develop multiple template and import them for proper sizing and estimation to know how your virtualization environment is being utilized.
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
It was so easy due to simple friendly user interface help contents.
Some - we have added small pieces of custom code
For ease and quick overview, reporting for senior management which give them highlight of the virtualization environment.
Not really.
Technician and account managers are spontaneous and active on our queries.
No
While procuring new hardware, we did our capacity assessment and helped us to generate usage report.
  • Alerts and actions
  • Capacity assessments
  • Reporting
  • Importing templates for different profiles.
No
Helping BAU for resources optimization.
easy scalable, adding new clusters in, no big deal.
  • VMware virtualization
Not really.
  • nope.
yes
  • File import/export
  • Single Signon
So far good experience with this products, AD integration for single sign-on
not really.
regualar tech session, seminar & webinars are good.
easy accessible, quick response. Regular follow up by TAM.
Training
Up gradation
Keep contacting and reaching out techs.
Yes
yes, tech support was awesome.
  • Lot of new features including multiple templates.
  • Nothing really.
No
No
Giles Ogram | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
VMTurbo Operations Manager is being used on several private cloud infrastructures that we host for some of our customers. These infrastructures require a solution which can automatically balance the workloads to ensure they run at the optimised operating level, as well as reporting on the capacity being used and available. These requirements are vital to the support and planning teams to maintain the infrastructure and allow more resource workloads to be added without impacting existing workloads and giving procurement teams notice of advanced hardware procurement.
  • Working alongside DRS rules within the VMware vCentre, VMTurbo manages and balances the computing workloads as it uses better calculating formulas and enhances the DRS rules in place.
  • VMTurbo monitors not just the computing resources, but network and storage IO, allowing better placement of VMs on lower latency connected hosts and on better higher performing datastores.
  • Automatically generated summary reports every week give a great overview of the system and reduces the need to constantly monitor the environment. VMTurbo helps the infrastructures manage themselves.
  • It takes a bit of understanding of the way that VMTurbo does all of the calculations and based on this, getting the correct settings/thresholds in place to ensure the workload balances/costs is quite tricky to get correct.
VMTurbo Operations Manager looks at most hypervisor infrastructures. We use it on VMware infrastructures currently but are looking to deploy on Hyper-V infrastructures too. One customer has multiple vCentres and VMTurbo Operations Manager allows us to connect to all of these, giving a better overall picture of the environments.
  • We have had a positive ROI on our VMTurbo deployments. We had been looking at purchasing new hardware to add more computing resources to one VMware infrastructure and this would have been >£75K. However the costs of purchasing and deployment of VMTurbo and only procuring extra memory was only £50K, thus saving over £25K on hardware alone. Extra costs would have been required for hosting these extra servers (i.e. power, cooling, rack space).
VMTurbo has a smaller computing and storage footprint than the other tools tested. It was very easy to set up and within 2 hours it was already highlighting areas of interest. There was no requirement to get any professional services involved, and no other products are required to get VMTurbo working.
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
We run 2 core infrastructures as well as an test/dev environment. The original evaluation went into the test/dev environment to test the ease of installation/configuration. We then deployed a POC in our larger estate. This POC returned results within 1 day and we then used this as a basis for a full licensed deployment. After a few months of getting used to the product and having on-site training, we then deployed into the smaller estate.
Change management was a small part of the implementation and was well-handled
VMTurbo deploys as a Virtual Appliance, with little configuration. However we had have to get firewall rules in place to enable VMTurbo to communicate with the different VMware vCentres. This was a single case of port 443 and creating vCentre service accounts. We already used vMotion processes, so no changes were required to allow VMTurbo to do its automation.
  • Setting correct costing for computing resources
  • Setup of scheduled email reports
VMTurbo is very simple to install and returns results within hours of deployment. As with all system tools, work is required to ensure it is correctly configured for your environment.
  • In-person training
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.
VMTurbo has both user/community forums (called the GreenCircle) as well as a support team for contracted customers. The technical team monitor the user forums and quite often supply solutions within that area. You normally receive a response from other users within a few days. The Technical support team respond back straight away.
Yes
We had an issue with the setup of scheduled reports going to non-standard domain names. This was raised as a bug and investigated within a few days. It took a month to get a fix. VMTurbo ensure that their product is updated every quarter, so our fix got issued as part of a quarterly fix. We were kept updated of the on-going ticket every week.
I had a particular request for a customised report. I asked the user forum to assist and one of the VMTurbo support team/developers responded within a few hours with a solution.
  • Automated resource management
  • Report generation
  • Resource planning requires the configuration of the VM template details to be setup correctly
VMTurbo interface is very easy to use and view. Dashboards are customisable and it is very easy to view historical data and trends by using the time sliders.
Yes
VMTurbo updates are very easy to deploy. We use the offline method as the system have no external internet access. A simple 400Mb zip file is uploaded to the Update page URL and within 10 mins, we are running on the latest version. We do this every quarter without fail and within issues.
  • Bug fixes
  • Product enhancements
  • more product enhancements based on additional application monitoring.
Yes
We had the free version deployed within our test/dev environment to get a feel for the product. We then had a fully featured POC license for 30 days running in our production environments, while we did further testing and waiting for the procurement of our full license.
No
Feather, Joshua | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently utilizing VMTurbo Operations Manager primarily in balancing our mission critical VMware clusters. It is able to evenly distribute the workload among our ESX hosts better than DRS.
  • VMTurbo is constantly watching the clusters and their hosts, therefore it is able to balance resources allowing our administrators to perform other tasks.
  • VMTurbo also allows us to make predictions on how many more virtual machines we can add to certain clusters based on available resources and trends.
  • Some of the prediction tools are quite complicated to configure. I think the process could be simplified however I'm sure some of the complexity is due to the thoroughness.
Its best suited if you find yourself in a predicament where the environment resource requirements change quickly and DRS has difficulty keeping things in check.
  • Its our eyes on the important resources when we are busy working other projects. It has helped keep performance, especially our VDI environment, running well without much administrative intervention.
System engineers that regulate and configure our Virtual environment
2
Experienced System Engineers with several years experience across the entire IT spectrum
  • Balancing ESX Host resources
  • Projections based off of trends of how many more virtual machines can be added
  • When is it time to add a host or storage to your environment
  • Allowing our customers to view their environment's resources
It is doing what we need at the current and with more experience, we will be able to leverage its full capacity.
No
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
We tested the product in our environment and watched it boost performance and balance our environment very well.
I'm not sure I would change it. I know how much hum intervention we had prior to testing VMTurbo and this has reduced tremendously where it allows our administrators to do what they are suited for instead of balancing clusters.
  • Vendor implemented
No
Unfortunately I do not.
  • In-person training
The trainer was very experienced with the product and was able to articulate the sections easily.
The product has sections that are very complex and it takes a bit of experience to navigate while other areas are easily utilized
no
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
We have customized some of the dashboards so we can see specific clusters.
No - we have not done any custom code
They have answered any questions we had or problems with the product very quickly.
No
  • Allowing it to balance the systems
  • The Projection portion is a little cumbersome to configure and produce results.
It is easy to initially configure and get it integrated. To fully utilize the tool, you need a better understanding of the system and how to configure.
So far it has met or exceeded our expectations.
VMTurbo has not caused any outages by not doing what we expect it to do.
Yes
It's very easy to upgrade VMTurbo, simply click upgrade and reboot
  • It corrects some issues we were experiencing with VMTurbo
No
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