Manage, monitor and optimize your cloud servers with IBM Turbonomic.
IBM Turbonomic is a multi-function software solution which helps us scale our business, deploy servers on the cloud, automate manual and …
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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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- Cloud Management Security (6)8.080%
- Automation and Orchestration (6)7.979%
- Cloud Management Performance Monitoring (6)7.979%
- Cost Management (6)7.878%
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IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Optimization Essentials
$3,333
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IBM® Turbonomic Hybrid Standard (Software)
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per month Advanced hybrid cloud optimization capabilities for customers with 200 managed virtual servers (MVS) or more
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per month For customers with more than $2 million USD annual cloud spend
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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 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 Integrations
- Amazon Web Services
- Cisco UCS Manager
- Dynatrace
- Dell VMAX
- HPE OneView
- IBM PowerVM
- IBM Instana
- Kubernetes
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MySQL
- New Relic
- Google Cloud Platform
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Monitor
- AppDynamics
- Cisco Secure Workload
- Google Kubernetes Engine
- Hyper-V
- Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
- Red Hat OpenShift
- ServiceNow Now Platform
- Pure Storage FlashArray
- VMware Horizon
- VMware vCenter
- HPE 3PAR StoreServ
- NetApp ONTAP Data Management Software
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IBM Turbonomic Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Global |
| Supported Languages | English |
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IBM Turbonomic starts at $3333.
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Reviewers rate Cloud Management Security highest, with a score of 8.
The most common users of IBM Turbonomic are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
IBM Turbonomic Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 25% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 25% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 50% |
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September 19, 2017
A tool that does it all!
We are currently using VMTurbo Operations Manager to analyze resource usage and follow possible load balancing recommendations based on current and past trends. It is also being utilized to automatically vmotion servers across ESXi hosts for load balancing. It is only being used by our Infrastructure team.
- It provides comprehensive historical data.
- Great tool to vmotion VMs based on your configured specifications.
- It allows you to model possible increase or decrease of resources and see what the impact would be to your environment.
- So far I have not encountered functionality that I would need and it's not implemented.
- It allows us to quickly and efficiently identify possible problem sources.
- I helps in planning upgrades by providing trends.
It allows us to manage our virtual environment automation, monitoring and trends from one location.
- None
N/A
3
All three of them are systems administrators, supporting the day to day operations for 250 plus users, mostly infrastructure support for network, phone system, servers, storage, backups, computer imaging, security, patching, hardware and software
3
A good understanding of virtualization, specially vSphere, vcenter, vmotion and resource management in a virtual environment.
- Automatic resource balancing
- Virtual environment resource monitoring
- Virtual environment planning
- None
- Not sure.
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Analyst Reports
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.
I did not evaluate this product or select this product.
- Don't know
- Not sure, the product had already been implemented when I was hired.
- Online training
- Self-taught
I would but it really depends on how people learn, some like a more hands on approach or in person guided training.
None
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
Not too bad.
None
No
We needed additional guidance when we were trying to spec out our system for a possible upgrade and they jumped on the phone with us right away to walk us through all of the analysis options available in the product, they helped us create a couple of test scenarios and followed up a couple of times after the support call to make sure everything had worked out as expected.
- Automation
- Monitoring
- Analysis
- None
- ibm storage
- dell storage
Not sure, I did not do any of the integration
- None at this time.
I don't know.
None
N/A
Not sure, I did not do the negotiation.
None.
No
- Have not done it yet.
- I have not looked at the new features or fixes from the new upgrade.
No
No
February 14, 2016
VMTurbo Review
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.
- 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.
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.
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
yes, as help content pretty descriptive and covers most of the contents.
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.
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
- VMware virtualization
Not really.
- nope.
yes
- File import/export
- Single Signon
not really.
Training
Up gradation
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
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.
- 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].
- 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.
- Online training
No
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
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.