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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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10 out of 10
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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  • 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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IBM Turbonomic Product Tour | #3 Continuous Cost Optimization

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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

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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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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

We use it as an integrated portion of our enterprise virtualization framework. VMTurbo Operations Manager is used primarily by the virtualization team within our organization. VMTurbo Operations Manager allows us to set thresholds on our environmental requirements. Using its technology we can have the system manage time / need based VM migration without using additional human resources. So during times where we have hot system utilization the application can manage, migrate VMs to maintain the health and viability of our VMware clusters better than VMware does.



  • Host level health monitoring is done extremely well. After turning on the system for the first time we were able to level our VM utilization within minutes.
  • Recommend placement of VMs within the environment by looking at the workload and determining if it will spike at similar times as another VM. It then keeps VMs with similar heavy workload times apart on separate hosts for best stability.
  • Start and stop times for patching and best case migration during that period. This allows our patching administrators to not worry about workload performance during patching times.
  • Best virtualized management dashboard of any we have used.
  • Define a 4 week trend analysis for integrated patch cycle management.
  • When VMware comes out with an update have a built in system stall to monitor for server upgrades.
  • Business continuity failover and failback should be integrated into this product.
  • Reporting Dashboards for Executive management should be easier to deploy
I believe this application is well suited to organizations that run more than two VMware clusters. If the organization is small I could not see the cost being worth it. However if you have 20 or more VMware nodes running 40+ VMs on each or if you have virtualized more data intensive platforms like SQL then an application like VMTurbo Operations Manager is perfect for you.
  • VMTurbo Operations Manager had a nearly immediate positive impact on us. We found that it made better use of our VMware environment than we could produce manually. It migrated and redistributed over 800 VMs after looking at the characteristics of our environment which increased the health and decreased the hotspots we had occurring in our VMware environment.
  • The reporting has been very helpful in sending positive factual information to our business leaders and application teams about our environment and their applications respectfully.
Overall I found the ease of use and fanatical support for this product refreshing in the me-too virtual systems management space. This company is doing many of the more important things you get with VROPS better than VMWare. I find they are very responsive in helping us with any issues as well as enabling us to become more proactive with less manpower.
We used VROPS from VMWare and found that VMTurbo Operations Manager was just a better product. It did things more fundamentally and was much easier to manage. I could have a lower end person managing VMTurbo Operations Manger than VROPS and I get more functionality also at a lower price point. Overall we found this to be the better product and more of what we wanted when we were trying to optimize our environment.
4
3 are Virtualization and Wintel Server Engineers. 1 is the Manager of Server Engineering. We have dashboards built in the system that are also accessed by the Director of IT Infrastructure services and the reporting analyst for IT for monthly reports. We have several users who are just web dashboard users from our analytics team, but they do not get into the system often.
2
You need a VCP that knows more than just you have x number of VMWare hosts and they are clustered. You need someone who knows your network topology as it is laid out for DMZ, local lan, Business continuity / Disaster Recovery, and branch office. You need someone who understands the storage connectivity to your VM hosts as well.
  • Application Quality of Service where one app doesn't step on another
  • Reporting for upper management
  • Where do you put the newest application without impacting anything existing.
  • We have been able to use this to integrate our ExtraHop solution information so we can monitor the east west traffic of a VM system to determine where an application is having a bottle neck.
  • We have been able to use this to properly size a system before purchasing for a community hospital with legitimate numbers knowing we wanted to run Active Directory, File Services for 1800 users, NVR, and Unified communications on the stack.
  • We used it to redesign our VMWare cluster environments moving us from 6 node clusters to larger 12 node clusters. Because the application manages the cluster so well we were able to expand the cluster count.
  • More integration with Business continuity has allowed this to be an initiator of a Disaster Recovery failover.
  • Documentation of our VMWare environment
  • We are virtualizing our SQL Platforms from large clusters and when breaking Instances into 400+ individual servers VMTurbo will help us define the workload locations.
The product just works so well and nothing has caught up to it. We expected VRealize to catch VMTurbo over the course of the last 18 months and that we would use this product as a stop gap until vmturbo was there. That was not the case and we have determined it still has more functionality and it does things easier.
  • VM Host and Cluster Management
  • Application Health monitoring for workload performance is incredibly simple
  • Deployment was really easy as well. Self discovery of the Hosts and the environment with just 1 credential added to the system.
  • Disaster recovery fail back is tough without prestaging information which isn't easily found.
  • Setting up the monitoring UI for the NOC could be easier
  • Real-Time placement can get you if you are patching. Make sure you set your patch windows correctly!
No
Excellent approach to larger VM organizational management. They have an very clean integrated dashboard that allows us to see everything in our environment and what that is doing in real-time. It works on multiple hyper-visors really well and integrates capacity planning on my local site as well as my cloud locations.
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
September 23, 2015

VMTurbo with NFS

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use VMTurbo Operations Manager to assist with the management of a VMware 5.5 environment with 11 hosts (HP Proliant DL380) and two storage arrays (EMC- Fiber Channel and Nimble - ISCSI) We have a small IT dept. (3 IT - 250 users) and found the product to be very valuable for juggling the VMs between the arrays to increase performance.
  • Excellent VM reporting tool.
  • VMTurbo Operations Manager proactively manages workload placement for virtual machines as well as storage.
  • Helped us right-size serveral VMs that were over/under provisioned.
  • Planning tool generated crazy results (provisioned 37 new hosts ), even after support ticket.
  • Policy editor UI is not intuitive. It's difficult to set new policies.
  • We moved from old legacy FiberChannel array to a Netapp using NFS for the data stores. With NFS we have similar machines grouped together, for better deduplication rates. VMTurbo has lost a lot of usefulness with this new array, as we no longer need to shuffle VMs between data stores.
For VM environments with block storage VMTurbo Operations Manager is the way to go for an effective monitoring and optimization tool. It can make the migration of VMs between host/data stores a painless and automatic process. VMTurbo needs to find a better way to manage NFS data stores as more people move away from block storage for their VM environments. Additionally doing so without up selling a storage add-on.
  • Improved effiency on existing host, so that the business could put off buying new hardware.
  • Best thing about VMTurbo Operations Manager is that you can get basic monitoring for free.
  • Support staff and customer experience managers are very helpful.
My organization looked at VCOPS, but it’s not really a monitoring tool. VMTurbo Operations Manager was the best product around a few years ago. However, since we changed over storage from block to NFS storage, I don’t really see how the product can be as great a benefit as before. Our company is unsure that we will renew due to this issue, combined with how much it will cost to add a new host into mix and the cost of the Netapp integration.
3
IT operations dept. Helpdesk - Mac/PC, iPhone, iPad hardware, printers, application support, etc. Networking - mostly Cisco routers / switches with Palo Alto/ASA Firewalls, pair of 9k nexus switches, 4 sites, 2 international. Sys admin - On premise SharePoint, just moved on premise exchange to Office 365, patch management, Cisco VOIP PBX, few Linux (CentOS) webservers, etc Virtualization / Storage - 18 VMware host 5.1, 5.5, and now 6.0 (HP Proliant servers), almost 500 VMs, Netapp/ Nimble Storage, few hyper-v host.
3
Able to have strong understanding of Networking / Storage / and Virtualization techonolgies
  • Monitoring VMs performance.
  • Balance workloads across host / datastores
  • Automation of suggested changes is a real time saver
  • Allowed us to utilize our existing hardware to the fullest extent possible
  • Analysis tool for elimination of obvious issues and isolation of problems
  • Ability to better dictate how infrastructure resources are allocated
  • Unsure of future [use].
Not as great since moving from block storage to NFS, no need to move VMs between data stores. High cost to license new host. Up sell on storage integration to better manage our new array.
  • Implemented in-house
No
VMTurbo Operations Manager was painless to set up. I provisioned the system in less than half a day.
Change management was minimal
No real change management with current organization. Can be problematic if a Jr. Admin just lets VMTurbo make a change without thinking through what possible outcome might occur. Usually no issues though.
  • None, fairly painless process
  • Support completed last upgrade for my organization with great enthusiasm.
A fully automated solution, ready to give recommendations on first use.
  • Online training
After buying VMTurbo Operations Manager, I was invited to an online user training event. I felt this training was effective and dug just deep enough to be informative yet still keep my attention. Additionally, the webinar was free.
No
It's a good monitoring tool, that's where it shines. However, I don't like the policy set up and the planning tool gave us some crazy results after defining all the parameters in detail.
No
I informed a customer experience manager about a strange issue I was having. He took time to personally set up my support ticket and then followed up to verify the support ticket was handled in a acceptable manner. Excellent customer service.
  • Workload is a nice 30,000 foot overview of entire virtual environment.
  • Dashboard has most important recommendations pointed out, and ready to make changes.
  • Inventory page is nice view, can manage virtual environment from this single pane of glass.
  • I found the policy editor to be difficult to set-up.
  • Planning for additional host returns crazy results after trying to be as accurate as possible with variables.
No
Issues with the planning tool that support was unable to resolve. Needed support assistance to set up policies. The rest of tools are pretty good and easy to use.
Customer experience is very important. Once you are a customer they will bend over backwards to ensure success.
Support and customer experience managers are always willing to assist.
None really, the product does sell itself after people get hooked on free trial. No wiggle room on price per core, unless you go month to month.
Others have said they won't take "no" for an answer during the sales process, I wouldn't know because my organization bought it. I can attest that the support and customer experience reps will also follow up on your issues in an almost annoying fashion after becoming a customer. They cared more about fixing an issue with product than I did.
Nick Casagrande | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
When we began moving to VDI about 5 years ago, we quickly realized that high CPU ready would cause a bad user experience if too many VM's were on a host. At this time, only vSphere DRS would slightly help with this situation, other than manual intervention of balancing out the workloads which was not possible with hundreds of VM's and a small staff. A quick google for automated vmotions, brought us to VMTurbo. A free download and a 5 minute install quickly showed us where the problems were and putting it into automated mode made the CPU ready disappear in a few hours literally. In addition to balancing our workloads it has helped with under and over provisioning as well as re-sizing recommendations and future capacity planning.
  • Balancing workloads across a cluster
  • Future capacity planning
  • Finding wasted resources with over provisioned workloads and reallocating those resources saving both time and money
  • An easily deployable linux appliance with zero configuration makes setup a breeze
  • Get recommendations within less than an hour about how to make your environment perform better
  • Automated re-sizing and moving of the environment and watching out for potential problems is like having a virtual staff member monitor your datacenter 24x7
  • Currently the two areas for improvement is a more aggressive approach with vmotions in a VDI environment to provide the best possible user experience. This was actually solved for me with a quick work around, however it is not in the base feature of the product. Support has to activate this for you.
  • The other being is that re-sizing recommendations are not able to be based upon working hours of a day. So your exchange VM gets pounded from 6am to 6pm, but is likely not used much thereafter, VMTurbo makes it's recommendation over a 24 hour period not during time windows you can specify.
For data centers with mixed workloads and over 100 VM's the product is very valuable. If you are running less than 50 VM's across 2 hosts, you probably won't experience much benefit from it, however if new servers and applications are constantly coming and going in the environment and the workload is uknnown, VMTurbo will help to size and allocate that workload efficiently to make sure you are maximizing your resources.
  • The ROI on VMTurbo once it was fully automated had a payback in less than a month with the other allocated resources we were able to reclaim. It's simply not possible to have a staff member or two monitor workloads and bring your environment into an efficient means of operations with the thousands of data points with vSphere
Honestly, at the time I purchased the product in 2009, there were no competitors to the product and today there still aren't. There are alot of products that will analyze your environment and spit out a report, but nothing that is fully automated out of the box and ready in 5 minutes to begin moving your data center to its optimum operating level. VMTurbo is not another monitor.
Bottom line, I can't hire anyone to view the environment as a whole and make it operate efficiently like VMTurbo does.
1
Virtual Architecture
1
General understanding of your environment
  • Resource allocation
  • Reducing costs
  • Improved performance
  • Improve user experience in VDI scenarios
  • Top down reporting
  • Insight into the virtual infrastructure we never would have known
  • Growth
  • Cost Reduction assistance
  • Energy savings
No
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
The ability for it to automate our environment and help us maximize existing resources
I wouldn't change it
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
  • None
super easy, 5 click installation
Very knowledgeable staff
Yes
Yes it was.
They made a change to the product whereas vmotions for VDI machines occur at a much faster rate to provide optimal end user satisfaction
  • Connecting to the hypervisor
  • Reporting is very easy
  • Recommendations to system are spot on and quick
  • Automation of needed changes are a no brainer
  • None that I have encountered yet
No
intuitive GUI design, continuous improvement
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