IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management SaaS
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Can't live without Turbonomics in a Hyperflex world
What do you like best about the product?
The visibility into the HyperFlex Storage cluster. It allows you to automate groing and shrinking Datastore size on HX on the fly!
What do you dislike about the product?
removing archive vCenter and servers from turbonomics is a bit tricky.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
the Automation and the calculation of what cost savings in man hours gives us is pretty dang impressive.
Turbonomic
What do you like best about the product?
I like to full VMware cluster automation. This keeps my workloads balanced evenly on each host.
What do you dislike about the product?
I like the older dashboard view better than the new one.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Workload Automation and Reporting.
Turbonomics enables me to do my job better!
What do you like best about the product?
Turbonomic allows us to optimize available resources to effectively use the hardware we have in place. It gives us a good end to end view of our virtual environments which makes troubleshooting easier. We also use it to find problems quicker which reduces the blame game and helps us focus in on the providing excellent service to our clients. We're starting to allow more automation and expect to see further efficiency gains with its adoption across the company.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface isn't the most intuitive to pickup at first
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to identify VMs that aren't leveraging their assigned resources and move them elsewhere. This allows us to optimize resources and cut down on unnecessary spend.
Excellent product and excellent support for virtual workload management on premise or cloud
What do you like best about the product?
The ability it has to provide Performance Assurance. It monitors workload and provides advice and/or automation to address performance issues. Also, its ability to model changing workload capacity and accurately project resources needed to support that capacity.
What do you dislike about the product?
New releases need to be tested thoroughly to determine if previous fixes are still retained.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are reclaiming over provisioned capacity to defer purchase of additional compute capacity.
We also achieved over $1,000,000 in ROI in less than two years of using this product.
We also achieved over $1,000,000 in ROI in less than two years of using this product.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Excellent solution for virtual workload cost management.
Easy to Use
What do you like best about the product?
Turbonomic is easy to use and understand. I love the capacity planning tool to help us plan for future infrastructure hardware purchases. I also think the reporting is great and has proven to be very valuable to my leadership team.
What do you dislike about the product?
Over all the GUI is easy to use but it could be easier to find certain features/functions within the GUI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Capacity planning which enables us to more accurately determine how much hardware we would need to add to bring on another application within our infrastructure.
Trustworthy Automation
What do you like best about the product?
I like that fact that it balances out the virtual environment, with little administration required. Set up your policies as desired, and let Turbonomic do its thing in the background.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a little complex to learn initially, and the cost is somewhat high. But the feature set and reliability is great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to get the most our of our existing hardware, by letting Turbonomic make CPU and memory decisions, and placing things on the correct host. This has enabled us to delay purchasing additional hardware, and also gives us great insight into the virtual environment. We can also run "plans" for the future, which is a great help with budgeting.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's nearly impossible to properly manage a complex virtual environment without a product like Turbonomic. The software will pay for itself over time, and give you some insights into your environment that are invaluable.
Virtual Machine Management at Ease
What do you like best about the product?
Provides efficiency across every cluster based on the supply and demand model at any given time.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ease of use and customized reporting (Something that can be easily used with upper management on a monthly basis to show the trend in our environment).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Provides efficiency at peak hours and better use of resources at any given time.
Turbonomics has been great for quick a quick analysis of data and assets.
What do you like best about the product?
the ease of discovery of my environment and reporting
What do you dislike about the product?
report flexibility product development to keep up with VMware versions
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
resource usage and reporting
Turbocharge your virtual environment
What do you like best about the product?
The auto balance is probably still there best and go to feature and value add of the product
What do you dislike about the product?
Still, the interface is lacking must say this has always been one of the weaker points the UI.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Optimization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
More competitive market than it used to be.
Great Product!
What do you like best about the product?
From the moment we started using it, we started seeing an instant return on investment. We had allocated way too much to some servers and not enough to other servers.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only complaint that we may have is that they changed the pricing structure. We haven't seen that yet for this year so it may be over our budget.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are saving on purchasing new storage and servers because we realize now that we have more than we need.
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