Turbonomic - An Extra Tool In The Toolbox
Updated February 12, 2022
Turbonomic - An Extra Tool In The Toolbox
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.
Pros
- Detailed workload analysis
- Powerful policy management
- Future planning tools
Cons
- 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.
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