Item: IBM Turbonomic
Rating: 10
Author: Dean Smith

Overall Satisfaction with VMTurbo Operations Manager

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it in the IT Department to manage our VM Farm. It is used to automate certain processes as well as project growth and determine if there is a need for more compute.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Automation
Fine tuning your VM Farm
Reporting

Cons

Reporting is very nice, but a little more fine tuning on the reports would be nice.

Return on Investment

Saved me $30K within the first month. Didn't have to buy a new Cisco UCS Blade.

Alternatives Considered

We looked a vCops and it didn't have all the features we were looking for and was almost twice as expensive.

Likelihood to Recommend

VMTurbo Operations Manager does an amazing job of fine tuning your VM Farm. Reports are super fast and presented well. I love the ability to automate tasks at certain times of the day or night.

Using VMTurbo Operations Manager

Support Headcount Required

3 - We are all System Administrators who support 400+ VM Servers

Business Processes Supported

Ease of use
Return on investment
Reliability

Innovative Uses

We use it to project for future grown on compute
We automate certain functions after hours

VMTurbo Operations Manager is simple to set up and use and you see a return on your investment within hours. The product simply works and does a great job of fine tuning your VM Farm which results in saving money.

Evaluating VMTurbo Operations Manager and Competitors

Products Replaced

Key Differentiators

Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Product Reputation

We decided on VMTurbo because of a few things: features, usability, and price. VMTurbo gives us more bang for the buck over some other well known VM products.

Evaluation Lessons Learned

I wouldn't change a thing, except I wouldn't have waited a full month to purchase the product.

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