Automation , resource management and performance management
Updated February 06, 2024
Automation , resource management and performance management
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Enterprise Edition
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Turbonomic
We use IBM Turbonomic , across a number of sites with in access of 2000 VM's , this allows us to manage our applications to get the very best performance , we have a very small IT team , so using IBM Turbonomic saves us a ton of people resources. IBM Turbonomic has reduced our performance issues on applications , help reduce users complaining and has our IT team working better. IBM Turbonomic saves us time, money, and people resources, and makes our applications and VM estate work more effectively.
- Automation
- Performance Management
- VM resource Management
- better automation
- support for networking devices
- Better application performance
- Better application delivery
- Better use of server resources
- Happier application end users
- Less workload for the IT team
We found that that the support we had from IBM and 3rd party vender on IBM Turbonomic was superb , and was one of deciding factors of why we choose IBM Turbonomic. We like a lot of the automation features , and how it helps our engineers work smarter. Even though the VM ware Aria operations is good , we found it much more complex to use.
Do you think IBM Turbonomic delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with IBM Turbonomic's feature set?
Yes
Did IBM Turbonomic live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of IBM Turbonomic go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy IBM Turbonomic again?
Yes
I would say the most notable thing is we have less instances where have to do in depth investigations in to application performance issues. This free's up the team to work on new projects and delivering new applications. The automation features are reliable and we trust them to help us manage our application servers and resources.
Yes the automation is highly trusted by our engineering team , and has freed them to work on new projects , instead of always being tied up on long and challenging troubleshooting investigations. Happier engineers , happier end users , and in turn happier managers and directors.
We save time and resources , so yes we have saved on hardware costs as before if we had a application issues , we would just throw more infrastructructure at a issue or more servers or more ram etc. But we have now insights and recommendations of what the route cause is and makes the recommended changes to configurations IBM Turbonomic suggests.
IBM Turbonomic Feature Ratings
Value of Using Turbonomic
- VMware
- FreeNAS
- HPE
- Ubuntu
- Ansible
- Prometheus
- Datadog
It was not difficult to get working with , Prometheus , Datadog and VMWare V-centre and V-SAN , Amazon Web Services , and Slack and clickup by the webhooks api
We have saved on not wasting resources or setups where we have too many servers running , also we use this to sip and spin down servers on demand for payloads that are for DEV or UAT
So overall we have made cost savings as or current platforms run better for longer , the old way would just spin up more servers , but now we have insights and tooling that manages our server estate with Artificial intelligence baked in.
So overall we have made cost savings as or current platforms run better for longer , the old way would just spin up more servers , but now we have insights and tooling that manages our server estate with Artificial intelligence baked in.
We have less outages and less issues with clusters running out of resources , we have confidence of what our servers are doing and if they need more resources.
So from a IT perspective less end user complains , better use of of our IT staff resources as they anot constantly putting out fires.
So from a IT perspective less end user complains , better use of of our IT staff resources as they anot constantly putting out fires.
Using IBM Turbonomic
5 - The teams that use this are dev-ops , support and IT-Infra teams
3 - Server , Storage , devops , scripting , server linux , windows , vmware , monitoring , cloud aws
- optimizing applications
- reducing and using resources efficiently
- capacity forecasting and analysis
- optimize our environment
- We use Turbonomic to manage or vmotion
- monitoring the whole application as well as its allocation of resources, CPU, memory, etc ,
- The right sizing feature , helps us to size all the vms correctly
- Reporting and recommendations on capacity
Evaluating IBM Turbonomic and Competitors
- Cloud Solutions
- Integration with Other Systems
- Ease of Use
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
Now we know of this product , is very unlikely we would select anything else for evaluation or POC
IBM Turbonomic Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
We did purchase premium support , as we have deployed on multiple production systems in different time zones , is super important to have always available and responsive support.
This gives us the peace of mind that any of or 24 hour support team can find the support they may need at anytime of day, without having to involve our internal IT.
This gives us the peace of mind that any of or 24 hour support team can find the support they may need at anytime of day, without having to involve our internal IT.
We have not logged many support cases , we have found the product is pretty stable
Using IBM Turbonomic
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using | None |
- Hands-Free Automation
- Capacity Management and Planning
- Kubernetes
- Reporting
- Needs initially a lot of time to tune