Item: IBM Turbonomic
Rating: 9
Author: Duc Dinh

Overall Satisfaction with VMTurbo Operations Manager

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

VMTurbo is our strategic tool to maximize our data center resource and is used by many teams:

Infrastructure - "right-size" VMs, reduce VM sprawl, balance workloads, troubleshoot performance bottlenecks
Platform - Dashboards to monitor application performance
Management - weekly reporting, trending and forcasting

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy to install and configure.
Interface is intuitive. Dashboard is easy to set up. Reporting is also simple yet concise.
Very intelligent analytics with fully customizable settings.

Cons

Option to increase daily data retention
Global scheduling - same schedule can be applied to other tasks

Return on Investment

Optimize use of resource by right sizing VMs
Able to reduce waste by identifying orphaned, under-used, powered off, and un-claimed disk space

We were using vROPs (vRealize Operations Manager) but felt it was too cumbersome to maintain without a dedicated resource. VMTurbo is much easier to use and maintain. Even though there is overlap in the 2 tools, we have kept vROPs as a "tactical troubleshooting tool" at the ESX host level where as VMTurbo is better at the entire infrastructure level.

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, vRealize Operations, vSphere with Operations Management (VSOM)

Likelihood to Recommend

This is where VMTurbo will get best the ROI - an enterprise level app intended for hundreds of ESX and thousands of VMs to be cost effective.

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