Turbonomic - An Extra Tool In The Toolbox
Updated February 12, 2022

Turbonomic - An Extra Tool In The Toolbox

Adam Paradis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Enterprise Edition

Overall Satisfaction with Turbonomic, an IBM Company

Turbonomic is used as an automation utility for VMware vSphere compute migrations as well as hardware capacity planning. It also allows us to monitor performance and report to service owners when experiencing pain-points or bottlenecks.
  • Detailed workload analysis
  • Powerful policy management
  • Future planning tools
  • Product update/upgrades
  • Policy creation/modification
  • Quite often workload analysis from Turbonomic reinforces resource recommendations to end users (e.g.; over-provisioned CPU/memory/storage, etc.)
  • Workload automation, specifically VM compute, allows hosts to be balanced for CPU and memory most efficiently based on Turbonomic analysis.

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

Turbonomic allows us to better allocate data center resources and identify problem areas for many applications and services running in the environment. It allows us to identify individual virtual workloads that are pain-points and provide owners statistics for these instances.
For the most part, Turbonomic has automated mundane tasks such as VMware host resource balancing, etc. however there have been times such as updating Turbonomic that involves quite a bit of IT involvement. Updates used to be streamlined into the product and could be done simply by scanning for new updates in the interface and then applying them. Now the process requires a manual download of an ISO and installation.
No cloud used.
Veeam Backup & Replication, NetApp ONTAP System Manager (formerly OnCommand System Manager), vSphere, Cisco UCS Manager
My company has been using Turbonomic to manage our VMware environment for six years from workload automation to analysis and also planning for new hardware. It also provides a unique insight into workload performance monitoring such as CPU and memory usage and allows us to accurately report these statistics to end-users when they experience performance issues.