VMTurbo helps me fully utilize the equipment I have and to plan for future growth
November 19, 2015
VMTurbo helps me fully utilize the equipment I have and to plan for future growth
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Cloud Edition,Enterprise Edition
Overall Satisfaction with VMTurbo Operations Manager
We are currently using VMTurbo Operations Manger to manage our 3 vSphere clusters across two data centers. It has been a great help with balancing cluster utilization, vm resizes and capacity planning. I had always used VMWare's VDS but VMTurbo's recommendations are far superior.
- Capacity planning is great.
- Automation of vMotions and resizes.
- Application control/monitoring for SQL and Oracle.
- I would like to see more details in the application control modules, I know it's not a full replacement for a monitoring product; but one plane of glass would be good.
- Sometimes I don't fully agree with some of the placement and resize recommendations that it gives me.
- The planning piece can be a little overwhelming at first but the more you use it the clearer it becomes.
- VMTurbo Operations Manager has freed me from having to make sure my VMs are "right-sized". For the most part I trust its resize recommendations.
- VMTurbo Operations Manager has helped to increase my data center's efficiency by showing me what physical machines I can shut down and still meet my cluster's performance and HA requirements.
- I did have to put in some rules to limit storage vmotions so non-critical machines were not placed to SRM protected datastores.
We used to use Solarwinds' Virtualization and Storage manager products. These were good products but always seemed to lack the full automation that VMTurbo brings to the table. I also tested VMWare's vCops at the time (now vRops). This product was very overwhelming and had a very steep learning curve. VMTurbo Operations Manager is very simple to implement and can provide an almost immediate ROI.
VMTurbo Operations Manager 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 |
No - We typically try to manage issues on our own and only engage with support if necessary.
Yes - Yes, I reported a bug in an early access program release and the bug was fixed in the next EA update.
VMTurbo did not, at the time, support one of the storage arrays I am using. I reached out to support who put me in touch with their development team who worked with me and a couple other customers to build support for the array into the product. They are very open and willing to work on supporting new configurations.