Why you need VMTurbo to reduce costs and increase efficiency. 5 minutes is all you need.
Updated December 23, 2014
Why you need VMTurbo to reduce costs and increase efficiency. 5 minutes is all you need.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Enterprise Edition
Modules Used
- All
Overall Satisfaction with VMTurbo
When we began moving to VDI about 5 years ago, we quickly realized that high CPU ready would cause a bad user experience if too many VM's were on a host. At this time, only vSphere DRS would slightly help with this situation, other than manual intervention of balancing out the workloads which was not possible with hundreds of VM's and a small staff. A quick google for automated vmotions, brought us to VMTurbo. A free download and a 5 minute install quickly showed us where the problems were and putting it into automated mode made the CPU ready disappear in a few hours literally. In addition to balancing our workloads it has helped with under and over provisioning as well as re-sizing recommendations and future capacity planning.
- Balancing workloads across a cluster
- Future capacity planning
- Finding wasted resources with over provisioned workloads and reallocating those resources saving both time and money
- An easily deployable linux appliance with zero configuration makes setup a breeze
- Get recommendations within less than an hour about how to make your environment perform better
- Automated re-sizing and moving of the environment and watching out for potential problems is like having a virtual staff member monitor your datacenter 24x7
- Currently the two areas for improvement is a more aggressive approach with vmotions in a VDI environment to provide the best possible user experience. This was actually solved for me with a quick work around, however it is not in the base feature of the product. Support has to activate this for you.
- The other being is that re-sizing recommendations are not able to be based upon working hours of a day. So your exchange VM gets pounded from 6am to 6pm, but is likely not used much thereafter, VMTurbo makes it's recommendation over a 24 hour period not during time windows you can specify.
- The ROI on VMTurbo once it was fully automated had a payback in less than a month with the other allocated resources we were able to reclaim. It's simply not possible to have a staff member or two monitor workloads and bring your environment into an efficient means of operations with the thousands of data points with vSphere
Honestly, at the time I purchased the product in 2009, there were no competitors to the product and today there still aren't. There are alot of products that will analyze your environment and spit out a report, but nothing that is fully automated out of the box and ready in 5 minutes to begin moving your data center to its optimum operating level. VMTurbo is not another monitor.
Using VMTurbo
1 - Virtual Architecture
1 - General understanding of your environment
- Resource allocation
- Reducing costs
- Improved performance
- Improve user experience in VDI scenarios
- Top down reporting
- Insight into the virtual infrastructure we never would have known
- Growth
- Cost Reduction assistance
- Energy savings
Evaluating VMTurbo and Competitors
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
The ability for it to automate our environment and help us maximize existing resources
I wouldn't change it
VMTurbo Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was minimal
VMTurbo 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 |
Yes - Yes it was.
They made a change to the product whereas vmotions for VDI machines occur at a much faster rate to provide optimal end user satisfaction
Using VMTurbo
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- Connecting to the hypervisor
- Reporting is very easy
- Recommendations to system are spot on and quick
- Automation of needed changes are a no brainer
- None that I have encountered yet