VMTurbo gives insight into you datacenter; but at a cost!
July 30, 2019
VMTurbo gives insight into you datacenter; but at a cost!
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Cloud Edition,Enterprise Edition
Overall Satisfaction with Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo)
We used it to help manage the compute resources being used in our datacenter. We have increased our VM deployments exponentially over the past few years without ensure efficient use of our resources. Turbonomic was implemented to help identify underutilization of resources to recover tied up resources and ensure that our most important applications had the resources they needed. It was used in our campus-wide datacenter that houses all VMs for our university.
- Presentation is nice. Its easy to understand what your looking at and the data that is being presented to you.
- Properly identify resource utilization and recommendations for action on how VMs can be improved and resources can be better utilized.
- It was also able to tell us the same information and analysis for cloud resources. I was not expecting that.
- Cost; the licensing was simply too expensive for us to make any use of.
- It showed us where we can save on resource utilization and some VMs that could improve performance
- It was hard to realize an ROI because of the high cost for licensing. In the end, we discontinued use.
Not really; VMTurbo touts that it does a better job than DRS and sDRS, but for us at least, without many tiers and different environments, DRS and sDRS were fine at managing VM placement and sizing.Our group that manages VMs and cloud environments is fairly small, so managing it within our team has not been extremely difficult without VMTurbo
The only comparable alternative has been DRS and sDRS which are native to vCenter. These tools have had to suffice for managing resources and placement. Thusfar, they have been working for us well. Although there is some manual work and reliance on monitoring tools to ensure VMs get the resources they need.