The most comprehensive solution to managing virtualization environments under one application.
September 26, 2015

The most comprehensive solution to managing virtualization environments under one application.

Eric Angus | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Cloud Edition,Enterprise Edition

Modules Used

  • Cisco UCS, APM, Cloud

Overall Satisfaction with VMTurbo Operations Manager

We are currently using VMTurbo Operations Manager in our department which includes numerous teams. It gives us visibility into our hyper-v environment along with storage spaces. We also use it for planning VDI deployments.
  • VMTurbo Operations Manager gives us a view into our environment in such a way that you can tell what is going on across the whole environment at a glance. If you need to drill down into a problem area, you can do this with ease, identifying any issues within seconds. Normally, this process would take me several minutes up to hours trying to find the issue.
  • Planning more VMs is a breeze with the Plan tab. You can very quickly plan out how many more VMs your hosts can handle before having to purchase more. This is especially helpful when needing to add a hundred endpoints.
  • Reporting is fast! You can fire off a report on anything that you see on the screen. This makes it especially nice when you are asked for the state of a machine currently or in the past.
  • VMTurbo Operations Manager could definitely use some improvement in the UI area. Flash has issues constantly. You find you have to logout and log back in to see changes.
  • More in depth views into storage spaces such as latency and reporting.
  • Canned reports are ok, but could use more in different areas.
  • The ability to make decisions faster on whether or not more hardware/resources are needed.
  • We now have proof when application owners are asking for more resources when they do not need them.
Easier to read graphs. The ability to create a report with what is currently on the screen is the most powerful option in the report section.
This wouldn't be suited to a smaller shop. VMTurbo Operations Manager shines when the environment is more diverse as it brings all the different technologies together.

Using VMTurbo Operations Manager

6 - SharePoint team
Windows Team
Unix Team
Citrix Team
Database Admin Team
Management
1 - Understanding the technology that is being monitored so an educated response can be given at any time regarding storage, hosts, VMs, hardware/software requirements and networking.
  • Planning future expandability
  • Reporting
  • Utilization efficiency
  • I use it to prove to application owners that they don't need more resources for their virtual server. This way, we can get away from just throwing resources at a server to fix an issue.
  • Making our databases more efficient.
  • Keeping storage pools balanced and operating efficiently with our tiered storage solution.
This is a very useful and needed tool. Without it, we would be almost completely blind to our diverse environment.