Better, Cheaper, and Easier that's why
Updated August 31, 2016
Better, Cheaper, and Easier that's why
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Cloud Edition,Enterprise Edition
Overall Satisfaction with Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo)
We use it as an integrated portion of our enterprise virtualization framework. VMTurbo Operations Manager is used primarily by the virtualization team within our organization. VMTurbo Operations Manager allows us to set thresholds on our environmental requirements. Using its technology we can have the system manage time / need based VM migration without using additional human resources. So during times where we have hot system utilization the application can manage, migrate VMs to maintain the health and viability of our VMware clusters better than VMware does.
- Host level health monitoring is done extremely well. After turning on the system for the first time we were able to level our VM utilization within minutes.
- Recommend placement of VMs within the environment by looking at the workload and determining if it will spike at similar times as another VM. It then keeps VMs with similar heavy workload times apart on separate hosts for best stability.
- Start and stop times for patching and best case migration during that period. This allows our patching administrators to not worry about workload performance during patching times.
- Best virtualized management dashboard of any we have used.
- Define a 4 week trend analysis for integrated patch cycle management.
- When VMware comes out with an update have a built in system stall to monitor for server upgrades.
- Business continuity failover and failback should be integrated into this product.
- Reporting Dashboards for Executive management should be easier to deploy
- VMTurbo Operations Manager had a nearly immediate positive impact on us. We found that it made better use of our VMware environment than we could produce manually. It migrated and redistributed over 800 VMs after looking at the characteristics of our environment which increased the health and decreased the hotspots we had occurring in our VMware environment.
- The reporting has been very helpful in sending positive factual information to our business leaders and application teams about our environment and their applications respectfully.
Overall I found the ease of use and fanatical support for this product refreshing in the me-too virtual systems management space. This company is doing many of the more important things you get with VROPS better than VMWare. I find they are very responsive in helping us with any issues as well as enabling us to become more proactive with less manpower.
- VMware vRealize Operations
We used VROPS from VMWare and found that VMTurbo Operations Manager was just a better product. It did things more fundamentally and was much easier to manage. I could have a lower end person managing VMTurbo Operations Manger than VROPS and I get more functionality also at a lower price point. Overall we found this to be the better product and more of what we wanted when we were trying to optimize our environment.
Using Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo)
4 - 3 are Virtualization and Wintel Server Engineers. 1 is the Manager of Server Engineering. We have dashboards built in the system that are also accessed by the Director of IT Infrastructure services and the reporting analyst for IT for monthly reports. We have several users who are just web dashboard users from our analytics team, but they do not get into the system often.
2 - You need a VCP that knows more than just you have x number of VMWare hosts and they are clustered. You need someone who knows your network topology as it is laid out for DMZ, local lan, Business continuity / Disaster Recovery, and branch office. You need someone who understands the storage connectivity to your VM hosts as well.
- Application Quality of Service where one app doesn't step on another
- Reporting for upper management
- Where do you put the newest application without impacting anything existing.
- We have been able to use this to integrate our ExtraHop solution information so we can monitor the east west traffic of a VM system to determine where an application is having a bottle neck.
- We have been able to use this to properly size a system before purchasing for a community hospital with legitimate numbers knowing we wanted to run Active Directory, File Services for 1800 users, NVR, and Unified communications on the stack.
- We used it to redesign our VMWare cluster environments moving us from 6 node clusters to larger 12 node clusters. Because the application manages the cluster so well we were able to expand the cluster count.
- More integration with Business continuity has allowed this to be an initiator of a Disaster Recovery failover.
- Documentation of our VMWare environment
- We are virtualizing our SQL Platforms from large clusters and when breaking Instances into 400+ individual servers VMTurbo will help us define the workload locations.
Using Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo)
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- VM Host and Cluster Management
- Application Health monitoring for workload performance is incredibly simple
- Deployment was really easy as well. Self discovery of the Hosts and the environment with just 1 credential added to the system.
- Disaster recovery fail back is tough without prestaging information which isn't easily found.
- Setting up the monitoring UI for the NOC could be easier
- Real-Time placement can get you if you are patching. Make sure you set your patch windows correctly!