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In addition to the core feature set, the planning tool has been invaluable to us.

What is most valuable?

Other than the core feature set, the planning tool has been invaluable to us.

How has it helped my organization?

VMTurbo Operations Manager has given myself and my staff more time to focus on other projects and tasks as well as improved overall performance of the virtual environment.

What needs improvement?

The UI could be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this product for the past 11 months.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

None at all, very smooth deployment and pretty easy to tune so far.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

None at all.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

None at all.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

10/10, everyone has been very helpful and even my pre-sales guys are very easy to reach and check up on my from time to time.

Technical Support:

10/10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We evaluated vCOPS but decided we received way more functionality and automation with VMTurbo.

How was the initial setup?

Very, straightforward setup by deploying the OVA template. You can slowly automate tasks once you’re comfortable with what its recommending.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented in-house.

What was our ROI?

Within 6 months to 1 year… (helped avoid the immediate need to replace some older test storage).

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We evaluated vCOPS but decided we received way more functionality and automation with VMTurbo.

What other advice do I have?

Do the 30 day demo, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

**Disclosure: IT Central Station contacted the reviewer to collect the review and to validate authenticity. The reviewer was referred by the vendor, but the review is not subject to editing or approval by the vendor.

Last updated: Mar 24 2015

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it_user86394 (User)

Better explain how you use it and what you cant make without

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25 March 15

Chris Childerhose

I have to agree about the planning tool as that is what helped me sell the solution to our Management in November. We are now using it and planning VM additions takes all but 5-10 minutes versus the manual spreadsheet method of 4-5 days.

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16 December 15

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Network & Communications Architect at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Highlights

I only deal with the infrastructure side, so I really couldn't speak to more than load balancing as the most valuable feature for me. It provides specific actions that prevent resource starvation. It always keeps things in perfect balance.

The automated memory balancing, where it looks at whether it's being used in the most efficient way and adds or takes away memory, is the best part. If it didn't do that, it would be something that I would have to do. We have too many machines for one person to do that. The automation helps me in that it is done in a really efficient way and a balanced way because of the policies. It really helps.

It also brings up a list of machines and if something is under-provisioned and needs more compute power it will tell you, 'This server needs more compute power, and we suggest you raise it up to this level.' It will even automatically do it for you. In Azure, you don't have to actually go into the cloud provider to resize. You can just say, 'Apply these resizes,' and Turbonomic uses some back-end APIs to make the changes for you.

It has automated a lot of things. We have saved 30 to 35 percent in human resource time and cost, which is pretty substantial. We don't have a big workforce here, so we have to use all the automation we can get.

The proactive monitoring of all our open enrollment applications has improved our organization. We have used it to size applications that we are moving to the cloud. Therefore, when we move them out there, we have them appropriately sized. We use it for reporting to current application owners, showing them where they are wasting money. There are easy things to find for an application, e.g., they decommissioned the server, but they never took care of the storage. Without a tool like this, that storage would just sit there forever, with us getting billed for it.

Turbonomic has helped optimize cloud operations and reduced our cloud costs significantly. Overall, we are at about 40 percent savings, and we spend about three million a year just in Azure. It reduces the size of the VMs, putting them into the right template for usage. People don't realize that you don't have to future-proof a virtual machine in Azure. You just need to build it for today. As the business or service grows, you can scale up or out. About 90 percent of all the costs that we've reduced has been from sizing machines appropriately.

We have a system where our developers automate machine builds, and that is constantly running out of resources. Turbonomic helps us with that, so I don't have to keep buying hardware. The developers always say, "They don't have enough. They don't have enough. They don't have enough," when they just configured it improperly. Therefore, Turbonomic helps us identify configuration issues on their side so it doesn't cost me money on the other end to buy resources that I don't really need.

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