Give VMTurbo a try
October 05, 2015
Give VMTurbo a try
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Cloud Edition,Enterprise Edition
Modules Used
- Operations & Storage
Overall Satisfaction with VMTurbo Operations Manager
We are a global service provider in the cloud space and utilize VMTurbo Operations Manager across each of our virtual instances. We place significant value in the role VMTurbo Operations Manager plays in ensuring performance, up-time and application availability for our customers and would recommend it to anyone running a virtualized environment either internally or public facing.
- Balances out the workload among the hosts in the cluster much better than DRS can.
- The reporting feature is much more robust than those native reports in vCenter.
- Being able to plan what our environment will look like after adding or removing hosts from the cluster is invaluable.
- The historical data, it would be better if the historicals didn't round out over time like they do, it's important to have accurate and detailed historical data when looking at an issue from weeks past.
- Storage migrations. We need a do not place policy as well as a placement policy for groups of datastores. It is important to have the ability to natively have a source and target group of datastores for moving vmdks from one storage pool to another.
- More intuitive dashboards. We should be able to add items to the dashboards, like the entire tier of storage for a cluster.
- Less alarms and tickets for capacity thresholds being met.
- We have spent less time focusing on balancing out the load across the clusters with automation set.
- We are able to provide customer reports based on the performance of their VMs. This has helped us to support the stability of our platform and point to the customer's solution as being the issue at times of an issue.
- vCOPS, vkernal and SolarWinds Application & Server Management
VMTurbo Operations Manager has an orchestration layer that none of the other products have. We chose VMTurbo Operations Manager because of the far superior algorithms for migrating VMs based on computer or capacity.
VMTurbo Operations Manager Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Yes - We have 46 vCenter instances throughout the globe in a hub and spoke design. We deployed an appliance in every hub with every spoke being a target within the appliance, it worked well during deployment and is easy to manage.
Change management was minimal - we didn't really change anything and therefore didn't need CAB. This product was viewed as a way to help us with performance issues and gain insight into historical data within one central console instead of several vCenters.
- At first we were given a version of the appliance that was full of bugs, we had to redeploy to over 20 locations.
- We really didn't have any issues. The product is very straight forward to configure and the OVA is pretty lightweight, we didn't have issues at all.