I like Turbonomic's built-in reporting. It provides a ton of information out of the box, so I don't have to build panels for the monthly summaries and other reports I need to present to management. We get better performance and bottleneck reporting from this than we do from our older EMC software.

We look at the resizing recommendations in the reports, but we don't follow all of them because we know the ebb and flow of our systems. It shows us the storage array evaluations for our storage devices. We have some older primary channel VNX systems. 

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. Most of the time it tends to be our SQL servers. 

When I first started at this company, only the boss knew about Turbonomic, and he had totally forgotten to even mention to me that they had it. They weren't using any other software like that. I was always curious and I kept asking all the other guys about how the system always stays so balanced and that we never seem to have a host that runs really hot, under any circumstances. Finally, in my first review, I asked him, "What are you guys doing there in the background that you haven't told me about, that keeps the system so balanced?" And he said, "Oh yeah, we're using Turbonomic." For whatever reason, they didn't have a DNS entry for it. The guy who put it in, he always just connected to it by IP, and he totally forgot about it because it just works. You don't have to go in there and do a lot to it unless there is a problem, and we never have a problem.

Also, since we're only using it for the infrastructure part, it's not telling us anything about the application. It just tells us about the server that is running the application. But if the application is getting bogged down because you're starting to see disk I/O problems, it does a fabulous job of recommending. "Hey, let's move this here or do that there." In every case that I can ever remember, it has always done a great job.

It doesn't really require any maintenance. Just set it up and let it do its job.

The Executive Dashboards are probably the best way to showcase what we are spending, what we can save, and how to grease the wheel to make it happen. A lot of times when we say, "Hey, we're spending too much," executives just go, "Yeah, well, it's just the cost of doing business." However, when they see a report where it shows, "You can save $8,000 a month," and it can provide those results. That is really powerful for upper management because they are very non-technical. They just know this thing exists, we have to pay for it, and it's critical to have, but they don't understand the nuts and bolts of it. The Executive Dashboards are probably the most beneficial overall for the business. However, as a techie guy, I don't think that they are the best for me.

Personally, the most valuable feature is the organization of it all, e.g., being able to drill down into any category and feeding the maps. It helps a lot by giving a visual representation of what is dependent on what. With the maps, you can drill into the different sections of the topography and find out what is what.

I like the tool overall from top to bottom. Anything that can save money and preserve productivity is going to get an A-plus in my book. 

Turbonomic provides specific actions that prevent resource starvation. For example, if we see a machine that is being overly utilized, then it needs to be increased in space, size, RAM, and processor.

It provides a proactive approach to avoiding performance degradation by scanning the environment every 10 minutes. It looks at 30 days worth of metrics per node. So, if it sees an upward trend on a machine, then I will get an alert that says, "You may want to scale up to accommodate the needs of this machine." However, it's not super fast. For example, it's not as fast as if I set a virtual machine to scale up or out as needed on the fly, but it does give us an overview of being able to see trends that we can plan for.

I like Turbonomic's automation and AI machine learning features. It shows you what it can do, but it can also act on recommendations automatically. Integration with an APM system makes the AI/ML features truly effective. Understanding what the application is doing and the trends of application behavior can help you make real-world decisions and act on that information. 

Turbonomic handles workload placement and sizing exceptionally well. Granted, we don't make VMs with three CPUs and weird numbers of RAM. We try to come up with sizing that makes sense, but it tends to be close to what Turbonomic recommends. It does something that no other solution does. Microsoft and VMware will not suggest the correct size of a VM. 

It's essential to have an automated solution for handling placement and sizing. Things are changing so fast that a decision about the correct balance of your VMs across your cluster is incorrect by the time you make it. Turbonomics is constantly evaluating placement. 

Changes in the loads happen at various times of day, and some loads are unknown to us in different periods of the year, so we automate the decisions. It has a feature that enables you to start your VMs small and let them grow. Then, you can turn them off every month and try again. 

Turbonomic not only calculates the availability of resources for the task at hand but also forecasts what will happen to the system if I perform my recommendation. The problem with performance tools is that they sometimes provide recommendations that cause a problem, and they need to correct the problem they just fixed. Turbonomic avoids that by measuring what will happen if they do what they want. That's awesome.

For performance assurance, I love the dynamic resource allocations. We don't have any nuisance performance issues. 

When you take a look at the utilization of our resources, it is great that this solution works both on-prem and in the cloud. We have been able to identify some quick saves in the cloud, and then on-prem, with their algorithm. So, we have been able to go ahead and increase our density by about 35 percent, which has delayed purchases of hardware.

Turbonomic provides specific actions that prevent resource starvation. One of the best features about using their algorithm is it can go through and tell me that I have a specific server instance or virtual image that needs either more CPU or memory added, tell us "These are the ones that aren't using the resources." Then, we can decrease the allocations to those server instances. The nice thing about this is we can schedule which of these activities you want Turbonomic to do automatically for us.

Monitoring and thresholds are very reactive, so somebody would have to be sitting there with eyes on glass, taking action. Whereas, with Turbonomic, we now have our thresholds set, and it automatically takes those actions.

The reporting is good.

The most valuable features are the cluster utilization reports and the resource capacity planning. We can simulate how much capacity we can add to the current resources. The individual DM reports and VM-facing recommendations report are also helpful. 

It can tell us where performance is lagging on the hardware layer. It's not on the application layer. Turbonomic can tell us where our memory and disks are to the point where performance will suffer. 

Turbonomic will identify causes and suggest actions in one unique report. For example, if a memory center is underutilized, it might suggest increasing utilization from 16 to 20 percent.

The ability to look at a workload from an actual consumption perspective for the resources that it's consuming internally is particularly valuable. For instance, when we have a server in the public cloud, we might provision a certain amount of memory resources to it and CPU, e.g., two processors and 24GB of memory. The tool provides the ability to look at the consumption utilization over a period of time and determine if we need to change that resource allocation based on the actual workload consumption, as opposed to how IT has configured it. Therefore, we have come to realize that a lot of our workloads are overprovisioned, and we are spending more money in the public cloud than we need to. 

This solution allows us to have the data to make business decisions without having a concern on whether we are going to be impacting the business negatively by taking the wrong action. We actually have the analytical data to back decisions. This helps us have discussions with the business on if it's the right decision to make or not. 

Turbonomic has the ability to manage the full application stack. We have not plugged in all aspects of our application stacks, but it does provide that. That's one of the things that we love from Turbonomic is that we're not only ingesting the data into Turbonomic and reviewing the decisions that Turbonomic is providing, but Turbonomic is also essentially providing us a single pane of glass to implement those actions. So, if there is an action that we would like to take, whether it is someone manually clicking a button and taking the action or the action being initiated automatically by Turbonomic, that is all taken from within the appliance. We don't have to go and log in somewhere else or log into our public cloud offering and take that action. It can all be done from a single management pane. We can look at our supply chain for a specific application or workload and see if one specific part of the solution is causing a problem, as opposed to having a bunch of people on the phone with a bridge call and having people looking at different aspects of the solution that they are more intimate with. Turbonomic shows us the ability from a service chain perspective, how things pitch together, and helps us identify that single point or bottleneck causing the impact. We have used it from that perspective.

It provides the ability for us to create customized dashboards and custom reports to help showcase info to key stakeholders. We have leveraged the custom reporting for things, like SAP, that we have running in the public cloud to show how SAP is running, both from a performance aspect as well as from a cost perspective.

Rightsizing is valuable. Its recommendations are pretty good. It was useful for the rightsizing and the right categorization of virtual machines and disks.

It's been a very good solution. The reporting has been very, very valuable as, with a very large environment, it's very hard to get your hands on the environment. Turbonomic does that work for you and really shows you where some of the cost savings can be done. It also helps you with the reporting side. Me being able to see that this machine hasn't been used for a very long time, or seeing that a machine is overused and that it might need more RAM or CPU, et cetera, helps me understand my infrastructure. The cost savings are drastic in the cloud feature in Azure and in AWS. In some of those other areas, I'm able to see what we're using, what we're not using, and how we can change to better fit what we have.

It gives us the ability for applications and teams to see the hardware and how it's being used versus how they've been told it's being used. The reporting really helps with that. It shows which application is really using how many resources or the least amount of resources. Some of the gaps between an infrastructure person like myself and an application are filled. It allows us to come to terms by seeing the raw data.

This aspect is very important. In the past, it was me saying "I don't think that this application is using that many resources" or "I think this needs more resources." I now have concrete evidence as well as reporting and some different analytics that I can show. It gives me the evidence that I would need to show my application owners proof of what I'm talking about.

In terms of the downtime, meantime, and resolution that Turbonomic has been able to show in reports, it has given me an idea of things before things happen. That is important as I would really like to see a machine that needs resources, and get resources to it before we have a problem where we have contention and aspects of that nature. It's been helpful in that regard.

Turbonomic has helped us understand where performance risks exist. Turbonomic looks at my environment and at the servers and even at the different hosts and how they're handling traffic and the number of machines that are on them. I can analyze it and it can show me which server or which host needs resources, CPU, or RAM. Even in Azure, in the cloud, I'm able to see which resources are not being used to full capacity and understand where I could scale down some in order to save cost. 

It is very, very helpful in assessing performance risk by navigating underlying causes and actions. The reason why it's helpful is because if there's a machine that's overrunning the CPU, I can run reports every week to get an idea of machines that would need CPU, RAM, or additional resources. Those resources could be added by Turbonomic - not so much by me - on a scheduled basis. I personally don't have to do it. It actually gives me a little bit of my life back. It helps me to get resources added without me physically having to touch each and every resource myself.

Turbonomic has helped to reduce performance degradation in the same way as it's able to see the resources and see what it needs and add them before a problem occurs. It follows the trends. It sees the trends of what's happening and it's able to add or take away those resources.

For example, we discuss when we need to do certain disaster recovery tests. Over the years, Turbo will be able to see, for example, around this time of year that certain people ramp up certain resources in an environment, and then it will add the resources as required. Another time of year, it will realize these resources are not being used as much, and it takes those resources away. In this way, it saves money and time while letting us know where we are.

We've saved a great deal of time using this product when I consider how I'd have to multiply myself and people like me who would have to add resources to devices or take resources away. We've saved hundreds of hours. Most of the time those hours would have to be after hours as well, which are more valuable to me as that's my personal time.

Those saved hours are across months, not years. I would consider the number of resources that Turbonomic is adding and taking away and the placement (if I had to do it all myself) would end up being hundreds of hours monthly that would be added without the help of Turbonomic. 

It helps us to meet SLAs mainly due to the fact that we're able to keep the servers going and to keep the servers in an environment, to keep them to where (if we need to add resources) we can add them at any given time. It will keep our SLAs where they need to be. If we were to have downtime due to the fact that we had to add resources or take resources away and it was an emergency, then that would prevent us from meeting our SLAs.

We also use it to monitor Azure and to monitor our machines in terms of the resources that are out there and the cost involved. In a lot of cases, it does a better job of giving us cost information than Azure itself does. We're able to see the cost per machine. We're able to see the unattached volume and storage that we are paying for. It gives us a great level of insight. 

Turbonomic gives us the time to be able to focus on innovation and ongoing modernization. Some of the tasks that it does are tasks that I would not necessarily have to do. It's very helpful in that I know that the resources are there where they need to be and it gives me an idea of what changes need to be made or what suggestions it's making. Even if I don't take them, I'm able to get a good idea of some best practices through Turbonomic.

One of the ways that Turbonomic does to help bring new resources to market is that we are now able to see the resources (or at least monitor the resources) before they get out to the general public within our environment. 

We saw immediate value from the product in the test environment. We set it up in a small test environment and we started with just placement and we could tell that the placement was being handled more efficiently than what VMware was doing. There was value for us in placement alone. Then, after we left the placement, we began to look at the resources and there were resources. We immediately began to see a change in the environment.

It has made the application and performance better, mainly due to the fact that we are able to give resources and take resources away based on what the need is.

Our expenses, definitely, have been in a better place based on the savings that we've been able to make in the cloud and on-prem. Turbonomic has been very helpful in that regard. We've been able to see the savings easily based on the reports in Turbonomic. That, and just seeing the machines that are not being used to capacity allows us to set everything up so it runs a bit more efficiently.

You have different groups who probably use almost everything. We use it for sizing of servers, and if somebody feels like their server needs additional resources, we validate it with the solution. We have a key part of the year called "open enrollment", where we really can't afford anything to be down or have any problems. We monitor it on a daily basis, and contact server owners if Turbonomic adds a forward-looking recommendation that they are running low on space. So, it keeps us safe. It is easy to monitor the virtual infrastructure and make sure there is capacity. However, with the individual VMs, in production alone, there are 12,000 of them. How do you keep up with those on an individual basis? So, we use Turbonomic to point out the individual VMs that are a little low.

Turbonomic provides specific actions that prevent resource starvation. They make memory recommendations and are very specific about recommendations. It looks at the individual servers, then it puts them in a cluster. At the end of the day, it comes back, and goes, "I can't fit these on here. There's not enough I/O capacity." Or, "There's just not enough memory, so you need to add two hosts."

Turbonomic can show us if we're not using some of our storage volumes efficiently in AWS. For example, if we've over-provisioned one of our virtual machines to have dedicated IOPs that it doesn't need, Turbonomic will detect that and tell us. You can save like a thousand bucks a month by switching the storage class. With a click of a button, it automatically makes the changes for you, and you can go in and save a ton of money on AWS with it. That's one of the primary ways I've used it. 

Kubernetes integration is excellent. Turbonomic helps us right-size deployments and replica sets. They've come a long way since I started here. I've been working with the team that uses Kubernetes or develops the Kubernetes integration, and it's been fantastic. Turbonomic helps prevent resource starvation too. Inside the console, there's a little graph that tells you what your application has been doing over the last week. You know that you need to take action right now before you run out of CPU or memory and your application starts to suffer. 

With Turbonomic, you have everything in one place. There aren't a bunch of different things to worry about or manage. It helps you manage full-stack applications as well. It's a challenge for many of our developers to understand what resources their application needs. We can automate that. Turbonomic processes all of the data, makes intelligent decisions, and automatically applies changes to the application. These are problems that are difficult for humans to solve because of the complexity of taking into account all these variables and determining how much memory to give an application. If you don't make the right decision, Turbonomic can discover that for you and fix it.

You can automate all of these functions. It tracks your application performance, and you can automate everything or have it wait for your input. It'll do it in real-time asynchronously in the background. Turbonomic can predict the impact of any given action, and that's one of the things I like about it. There's a little graph that pops up when you're about to do something. It shows you the history and predicts the future impact of what will happen when you click the button. For example, it can tell you that your utilization of the resource allocation will drop by this much, and you're going to be at about X percent utilization.

It's reasonably accurate. I haven't had a situation where it told me that everything would be okay, but it didn't work when I applied the change. So far, everything has been smooth sailing. Turbonomic can tell you how everything is currently performing, but we use other tools for that kind of monitoring. It can show you how your system is currently acting. If some things don't need action at the moment, it will tell you why. For example, it'll say you have this much memory allocated, and you're right on target, so you don't need to do anything. 

It's harder to use a monitoring tool to understand how your application performs over time. It depends on the monitoring tool, but often you have to set it up to ingest all this data and pick the right things to look at. Turbonomic does all that for you in the background. You can look at a suggestion, for example, if you need to up your memory allocation by a certain amount — and see all the data Turbonomic has gathered to make that decision. With a standard monitoring tool, you have to make that decision yourself. You're the one ingesting all the data. 

A monitoring tool is probably better if I want to see what my application is doing right this instant. As far as thresholds go, I think that's something I would probably use monitoring tools for. I would set it up to alert me when my resource allocation or memory usage exceeds 80 percent. I haven't used Turbonomic to do things like that. It's more forward-looking. When something is happening, like my application is running low on startup resources, I'll hop on a Turbonomic to see if there's a solution that I should apply. 

I like the analytics that help us optimize compatibility. Whereas Azure Advisor tells us what we have to do, Turbonomic has automation that actually does those things. That means we don't have to be present to get them done and it simplifies our IT engineers' jobs.

The feature for optimizing VMs is the most valuable because a number of the agencies have workloads or VMs that are not really being used. Turbonomic enables us to say, "If you combine these, or if you decide to go with a reserve instance, you will save this much." That feature gives you an estimate using, for example, a Microsoft cost model, to show clients how much can be saved.

Another key aspect that I really like about Turbonomic is the user interface. It gives you a visual representation of where there might be issues. That stands out. When I'm looking at resources for migrating different workloads, if something is shown in red, that identifies a risk. If it's a risk where it's currently running, it's definitely going to be worthwhile to migrate it. It helps us to mitigate that risk before we do the actual migration.

The right-sizing feature is the most captivating one for us. It helped in taking the emotions out of what people think they need, basing it off of real data, and providing them what they actually need. It's not really a special feature, but the support that we received from that team really helped us in our success. There were definitely some customizations that needed to take place to make it successful.

This is the most aware of our products, in terms of understanding all of the components from the top down. It is integrated with all of the different modules, all the way down to the core infrastructure. All of it is tied together and there are not many tools that can do that.

There are a number of tools that we use in it. Some of the things that I request are the data dumps. They write some kind of scripts or something inside there where they are actually able to pull for me CSV files. Then, I can go in, take all that information, and build a master gold list for my migration activities. 

Everything that I ask for, I get. I don't know what they are clicking nor do I know what they're doing, but when I request it, I get it. There are all sorts of different ideas and scenarios that I put forth to the developers.

Turbonomic provides specific actions that prevent resource starvation. While I'm not in there banging around on the tool all the time, I can tell you that I do very much benefit from it. On Monday, I was getting additional information from the Turbonomic guys.

We use the solution’s automation mode to continuously assure application performance by having the software manage resources in real-time. 

On-premises, one advantage I find particularly appealing is the ability to create policies for automatic CPU and memory scaling based on demand. This improves elasticity and responsiveness to application needs. Additionally, IBM Turbonomic helps us track and quantify cloud cost savings, facilitating informed decision-making.

We're also implementing FinOps principles. By collaborating with other departments, we can demonstrate the cost implications of various resource allocations. For example, specifying a minimum processor requirement might incur higher cloud costs. This increased awareness through IBM Turbonomic allows us to predict impact and make cost-effective decisions.

The resource allocation features are the best for us. They have a lot of different features, but we had it at first in notification-only mode, or recommendation mode it may be called. In that mode, they would recommend what we should do, and then we would manually do it.

Once we realized that we could trust their recommendations, we set it into the automated mode, so it makes those changes on the fly for us. Especially during the pandemic, that really helped as we were scaling up our virtual desktops quite a bit. We almost tripled the number of desktops we had on there within the course of two and a half to three months.

My favorite part of the solution is the automation scheduling. Being able to choose when actions happen, and how they happen, whether that be through an approval process during the workflow, or whether it be someone executing it on a weekend because they're working in their own environment.

Rightsizing is the most valuable feature because it helps with our capacity management and server density so that we are always optimized. 

Turbonomic provides specific actions that prevent resource starvation. It'll tell us if a server is overpowered or over-provisioned so that we can recover resources. And on the same note, it'll tell us if a server is under-provisioned and we need to add resources to it to help the performance.

It also provides us with a single platform that manages the full application stack. This was the secondary reason we went with Turbonomic. The primary reason was for the server optimization.

In my organization, optimizing application performance is a continuous process that is beyond the human scale. We're always looking to better optimize the environment.

We use Turbonomic's automation mode to continuously assure application performance by having the software manage resources in real-time for sizing-up. Sizing down is a manual process.

Turbonomic handles on-prem, virtualization, and storage. Turbonomic understands the resource relationships at each of these layers and the risks to performance for each. As far as we can tell, they are risk-averse. So they put controls in so that you don't cause outages. It makes the operations more secure.

We do a piece of automation in real-time, scheduling them for change windows, or manual execution for implementing Turbonomic actions. The vMotions are automation, the rightsize up is done automatically, and the rightsize down is during change windows.

We do the automation piece so that it is continuously rightsizing how many VMs are on a host for best performance, same with increasing resources on a VM to make sure application performance is where it should be. And then we do change control for the rightsize down because it requires a reboot.

The fact that Turbonomic shows application metrics and estimates the impact of taking a suggested action gives us a window into seeing what will happen if we do make the change. So it provides better visibility.

Turbonomic provides a proactive approach to avoiding performance degradation. That's what rightsizing does. It continuously optimizes so there are fewer application performance issues.

We have seen a 20% reduction in tickets opened for application issues.

Using Turbonomic does it all-in-one versus the approach of using monitoring and threshold to assure application performance. Sometimes your monitoring tool does not do the optimization as well.

The right-sizing is the most valuable feature. It constantly lets you know if a machine is being over-utilized or under-utilized, so that you can make it the appropriate size for what you need it for.

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.

The most valuable features have been the resizing, then the allocation of resources and where to run the pods. Those have been a huge success for us. It is a self-funding initiative in that regard.

Turbonomic provides specific actions that prevent resource starvation. Potentially running out of resources is a possibility. Now, we have an overallocation of resources. However, each time we use the resources, we incur additional costs from a licensing perspective. Turbonomic allows us to maximize our resources before we have to utilize additional resources. 

We like that Turbonomic shows application metrics and estimates the impact of taking a suggested action. It provides us a map of resource utilization as part of its recommendation. We evaluate and compare that to what we think would be appropriate from a human perspective to what Turbonomic is doing, then take the best action going forward. So far, we like exactly what we see from the product. It is very powerful.

The primary features we have focused on are reporting and optimization.

The recommendation of the family types is a huge help because it has saved us a lot of money. We use it primarily for that. Another thing that Turbonomic provides us with is a single platform that manages the full application stack and that's something I really like. 

One other useful feature in Turbonomic is the support for Kubernetes. That's one of the things that I have worked on with Kevin, our account rep, from Turbonomic. We're going to work on setting that up because our developers are pushing hard for Kubernetes for containers this year. Knowing that it's supporting that is awesome.

Something that Turbonomic started doing, just a couple of months ago with one of their latest releases, is the potential savings when it comes to disks. It is very promising. They make recommendations based on the type of disks. For example, if you're using a premium SSD, it makes recommendations, based on I/O metrics, to go to a standard SSD. Those types of recommendations are very valuable and that's another area where we see cost savings, which is awesome.

Reporting and Automation are the most valuable features.

It is a good holistic platform that is easy to use. It works pretty well.

A lot of the features in Turbonomic are valuable. The placement features are really good, allocating the load of VMs between systems within a VMware cluster. The notifications saying, "This is a corrective action," even though some of them can be automated, are always welcome to see. They summarize your entire infrastructure and how you can better utilize it. That is the biggest feature.

It also offers hot-memory increases, whenever they're applicable.

In addition, it gives us visibility and analytics into our environment, to a limited point. It does SQL components and, likely, in the newer versions, it has more of that layer. But, we're using it at the VMware level. We have tie-ins to our Pure Storage, and we're using it for discovery of that, as well as of our Cisco UCS for compute. It does delve down into the infrastructure level, if you allow it to do so.

Those analytics are important for understanding, historically, what sort of load a system handles over a certain period of time. If you have a system that is running efficiently and fine, but there is a year-end or month-end or quarterly-end report that needs to run, Turbonomic allows us to anticipate our requirements. For example, when those reports come up, it might be one of those times when we need to bump up the memory and CPU for that cycle. Turbonomic is very good for that aspect, from the standpoint of productivity. It does a lot of recommendations for placement, although we don't enable that in our environment because it's controlled. But it has a lot of good features.

Workload placement. The "financial" idea works very well, and has allowed us to reduce our infrastructure footprint significantly without impacting performance.

Scenario planning - The ability to look at a selection of resources and play around with different scenarios; move, duplicate, re-locate to a new cluster or DC.

The Automation and Planning capabilities are unique, innovative, and game-changing for us.

• Moving VMs
• Storage moves in conjunction with DRS
• The planning function
• Rightsizing VMs

Automated and intelligent vMotions, VM right-sizing, storage capacity optimization, reporting, and planning.

The sizing information is the most useful aspect of Turbonomic. It helps us know which machines are over-provisioned or under-provisioned. I also like the historical information from the environment about performance metrics, utilization, and the like. It's nice to go back and look at what was happening in it at any particular time.

Provides automation of the workloads to the best hosts and trending of resource capacity over time. We constantly focus on this as a service provider.

VM automation to keep clusters' performance at its best.

The customizable dashboard lets us get quick insight into our environment. The quick overview of your environment allows you to get to fixing the things that matter most quickly.

At the moment, I have only really had the opportunity to manage virtual machines with it.

We're starting to let it look at our Kubernetes workloads as well.

The automation and orchestration components are definitely the best part, as you can tell it what it can do and when, and just let it be. However, I haven't reached that point yet. That is the plan for the future though.

I really like the planning tool so I can make sure we have enough resources for upcoming projects that require servers, while still having enough resources for our disaster recovery failover needs.

When you log in to Turbonomic, I find the Assure Service Performance that appears on the dashboard the most useful item. This option shows virtual machines that may need additional memory, CPU, or to be migrated to other storage to ensure performance. The product can be configured to do all of this automatically, but I like have more control of the changes. Plus, the way we have our storage configured, it is best that one of the admins selects which data store a machine is migrated to. I also like the reporting feature and have several of them set to automatically generate and email to me at the end of the month. One in particular shows snapshots that are still on the virtual machines. This prevents forgotten snapshots from existing for weeks, months, or even years.

• Assure service performance
• Policy/automation
• Plan/capacity planning
• Application module
• Network module

There are three main areas that that we find priceless. The automation, planning/forecasting and reporting.

Turbonomic has some very useful features like being able to link multiple clusters together to for a super cluster allow us to balance out our load as needed. We also have started using the automation available in Turbonomic to automate some of our workloads that have been virtualized.

Optimization is a valuable feature. For example, if I have eASICs running and several VMwares running, it shows me how to optimize the system and get the best out of it. It reduces the cost of the two systems. I like that the solution integrates almost automatically with other products.

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 provides specific actions that prevent resource starvation. If a machine needs more resources, it will use the automation policies to add resources so that machines get the resources that they need. And if they don't need them anymore, it will take them away.

It provides everything in one screen, one area. I'm able to see not only the planning, and not just the stuff that's on-premise, but things that are in the cloud. I can even narrow down to different applications. It does a lot in one pane. That was really important because we didn't have to go to three or four different products to find what Turbonomic had in one product. It really helps that Turbonomic is showing you efficiencies and the best way to keep things in the environment working properly, instead of me, or even me and co-worker, trying to do it. We just know that it's handling it better.

You can monitor an application and all the hosts and virtual machines that are connected to the application and it will give you an idea of how many resources it is using and what it is using. It also lets you know if it's over-utilized or under-utilized. It helps us to know if we're in an area where a machine might not perform the way we are expecting it to, because of the resources that it has or the resources it needs to have.

We really take advantage of the PLAN feature, as forecasting and planning resources is imperative for effective and efficient operations management. Our fiscal responsibility considerations are key and important.

• Single pane utilization, reporting on UCS, 3PAR, and VMware
• Capacity planning
• Placement recommendations

The default dashboards give an excellent view of the current health of the virtual infrastructure. But its not just current health, it give sensible recommendations for remediation. Creating custom dashboards is easy and gives quick visibility into specific groups of systems or metrics.

Within 15 minutes of deploying the virtual appliance, we had some valuable data about our environment and starting using the recommendations for VM resizing and moves within the 32 blade cluster. After about a month of following the recommendations, we found we trusted Turbonomic enough to start automating the resizing and moves. Recently, we've even used it to vacate an entire storage array onto a new one for about 1800 VMs. Everything worked flawlessly without a hiccup.

The most valuable feature is the right-sizing. For my maintenance weekend, I can schedule it to right-size a subset of VMs every month. That works perfectly for me. It goes out on its own and tells me which machines need to be changed, then it will perform that function. I don't have to do any manual intervention. It runs its own report in the background. 

Turbonomic tells me ahead of time to prevent resource starvation. Going into the console, it tells me whether actions can be taken, saying, "Do you want to do these now?" Then, I can push a button and Turbonomic will do them. Or, I could simulate a load by saying, "Well, I'm going to add this, what will happen?" It will then tell me what will happen, so I can know ahead of time.

It optimizes application performance as a continuous process that is beyond human scale.

The solution helps us with troubleshooting issues in certain virtual environments. It gives you good information so you can drill down to different levels. You can get information to help you troubleshoot issues that you are seeing, whether it be storage-related or virtual machine-related.

I have the ability to automate things similar to the Orchestrator stuff. I do have the ability to have it do some balancing, and if it sees some different performance metrics that I've set not being met, it'll actually move some of my virtual machines from, let's say, one host to another. It is sort of an automation tool that helps me. Basically, I specify the metric, and if I get a certain host or something being over-utilized, it'll automatically move the virtual machines around for me. It basically has to snap into my vCenter and then it can make adjustments and move my virtual machines around.

It also has some very nice reporting tools built around virtual machines. It tells you how much storage, memory, or CPU is being used monthly, and then it gives you a very nice way to be able to send out billing structure to your end users who use servers within your environment.

We have found the automation for moving VMs optimally to be much better than VMware DRS. We have also rebalanced our storage platform using the recommended storage moves. This has improved performance and capacity use across hosts and storage.

Cluster Capacity Dashboards have been a huge benefit towards capacity planning and scaleout reviews

The planner element of the product is fantastic for host replacement planning and allowing the rightsizing of our disaster recovery (DR) provisioning.

The biggest value I'm getting out of VMTurbo right now is the complete hands-off management of equalizing the usage in my data center. VMTurbo distributes all of my VMs equally across all of my hosts. I don't ever have to think about when a host is in more heavy use if there's going to be constrain on that single host that it lives on, because it rearranges everything for me through VMotion control.

We have benefited from both the workload placement and analysis of our hosts via running plans. Soon we will embark on rightsizing. This tool offers us the best mechanism we have had so far to implement this effort.

The reporting and planning features are used a lot and contribute to our ROI. But we have only touched the tip of the iceberg with the product, currently utilizing the recommendation function to get more comfortable before moving to automation of manual processes.

The economic algorithm is a brilliant way to measure supply vs. demand of virtual machine resource needs. It is this idea that makes Turbonomic perform better than the rest.

Automation of tasks to keep the resources loads on my ESX servers balanced. The reporting functions also save me a lot of leg work when requests are made from those higher up about over environment performance and trends.

It automatically adjusts resource allocations and VM placement to improve utilisation and ensure service delivery. Increased visibility and control has meant higher VM density per host. The 'plan' tab allows for accurate capacity forecasting for upcoming projects.

Automation and the sizing function have been very valuable. As a multi-tenant cloud services provider, our engineers also rely heavily on the reporting function as one of their main go to tools.

The most important feature to us is an objective measurement of VM headroom per cluster. In addition, the ability to check for the right-sizing of VMs.

The auto resource leveling on my hyper-v cluster saves my staff so much time on monitoring and performance tuning.

We have VM placement in Automated mode and currently have all other metrics in Recommend mode. We also have made use of the planning tool to project when in our migration and modernization project we would need to procure new hardware.

• Plan what-if scenarios
• Reporting
• Real-time evaluation and recommendation of guests

Workload performance analysis.

The automation makes my life easier because I know my VMware clusters are balanced across all my hosts.

Most valuable to our organisation are the Planning module and the VM Rightsizing Recommendations. The planning module provide a mechanism for us to try out different scenarios based upon expected growth, ensuring that we can meet the capacity demands of our business. The VM Rightsizing Recommendations show us how over or under-utilised our resources are and makes suggestions to improve performance by adding or removing VM resources as needed.

Automation: The ability to make changes, up or down, and move resources in order to ensure performance, making our investments last longer.

• Improving the overall efficiency of the dashboard.
• Plan View
• Environmental Health Chart

The most common features we use are the reports for VM performance and the planning tools. We use the planning tools to right-size hardware purchases when replacing old hardware. It takes the guess work out of switching hardware platforms.

Not having to dig through any event logs, alerts or performance logs within the vSphere clients and instead getting direct recommendations from Turbonomic is wonderful.

Automation of leveling out compute power across servers and forecasting.

Planning and workload placement.

We love the custom dashboards. We use them on the TV above our desks and it helps us keep an eye on the environment.

Automating the resource balancing. It let's us know when we need another host to keep things running smooth and fast.

Automation and reporting.

• Automated move and workload placement.
• Resource planning.

We have primarily used the automation features of the product to right size the VMs and migrate the VMs to best use the resources we have available.

Dashboard. Quick way to monitor the vCenter.

Improve Overall efficiency dashboard has identified resource consumption by individual VM's either to much or not enough.

For us, the monitoring features, as well as the right-sizing recommendations and reports have been the most valuable.

Capacity planning

Reporting and the dashboard.

• Automating migrations and implementing storage recommendations
• Reporting
• Planning tool

The automation of vStorage migration, ability to create dashboards and the rightsizing recommendations. We also like the planning and forecasting features.

Provides automation of balancing workloads on ESXi hosts. With a fully automated environment, I never need to worry about host resource utilization or guest resource consumption. Guests are migrated between hosts and datastores to balance resource load. Resources on guests are automatically sized up and down as the demand increases or decreases.

Turbonomic's best features for my needs are the autonomic scheduling, capacity planning, and right sizing capabilities. It is like VMware DRS and SDRS on steroids, predicting VM contention issues before they happen and migrating workloads accordingly.

Its ability to scale up and down on demand allows for maximum cost efficiency. By dynamically analyzing our loads, the product can sense if resources need to be adjusted. It can also tell if another configuration of the same power would be cheaper in another region. 

Capacity reporting features.

The most valuable feature would have to be the out of box automation of VM placement. Without too much configuration, the dynamic and autonomous optimization provided by Turbonomic virtual machine placement is impressive.

With over 2500 ESX VMs, including 1500+ XenDesktop VDI desktops, hosted over two datacentres and 80+ vSphere hosts, firefighting has become something of the past.

All eight of our vCentre clusters happily run hot at 90+% utilization with n+1 redundancy.

Automation balancing work loads, and correct sizing

After configuring the automation it has kept the VMware clusters balanced.

The most valuable features are the planning tool, the policy engine, workload charts, and the extensive library of dashboards.

Better vMotions decisions than DRS.

Reporting has added tendentious value.

The reporting and capacity planning features are the most valuable for me.

Assure Service Performance.

• Visibility: Prior to using Turbonomic, we had absolutely no insight into which resources our applications were utilizing.
• Automation: I have a small number of IT staff and the automation provides a number of huge benefits. The operational tasks are handled by Turbonomic which dramatically reduces the burden on my team, freeing up their time to concentrate on improving the IT infrastructure as opposed to reactive ‘fire-fighting’. The VMs are correctly spec’d to the workload’s demands (with no user impact and performance degradation) circumventing any chances of human error.
• Plans: We were able to visibly see the future deployments and the impact that it would have on the existing environment.

The automation piece is one of the most valuable features. It has allowed us to focus less on optimizing VM workloads. Custom dashboard has also been helpful with upper-level management.

I like the dashboard. I don't have to search around or create reports for issues or items I should be looking at it. It all just comes to the front.

For our organization, the key feature/benefit is allowing us to better utilize available resources. Prior to Turbonomic, rightsizing a VM could be tricky. Often the software vendors or application owners overestimated specs. This left us with wasted resources.

The automation, of course.

The automation of balancing VMware cluster workloads. This feature insures that my VMware clusters are always running in an optimal state. The streamlined automation is what sold me on this product.

The planning is great to see how much capacity I have in my VMware infrastructure.

Automating VM moves.

Automated sizing and moves for VMs based on real-time usage statistics.

Capacity planning for purchasing new hardware.

Reporting, Dashboards & DRS.

Best feature is the ability to move my virtual machines around automatically to balance out loads on each of our hosts.

The Capacity Planner was invaluable when doing a server consolidation / host migration project. On a daily basis, I tend to use the "To Do List" in order to keep my systems efficient.

We utilize the Turbonomics product to increase our VM density on our VDI clusters.

The most valuable feature for us is the feature which allows Forecasting. Forecasting allows you to forecast and simulate new environments so you can decide what to add to your environment and what won't work. Looking to add Cisco nodes, for example, I can add new hardware and test and predict how our investment will impact our performance.

Automation and planning. Turbonomic's ability to automatically load balance my storage and hosts has saved a lot of time. Planning for a future VDI deployment has allowed us to eliminate the need to scramble for resources during the deploy.

Easy to use central management of resources and report capabilities.

The dashboards are fantastic. The Improve Overall Efficiency view is great in getting resources in check when the build out was over estimated.

The features most valuable are seeing over allocations, being able to automatically make changes, and determining how much new VMs would allocate resources.

• Automatic placement of workload in multi-node VMware cluster.
• Recommend/perform memory and vCPU configuration to match work load.

The dashboards are amazing. They give me the ability to show our line of business how their application servers are performing. We also like the automation tool for managing our clusters so they are fully optimized.

• Very easy installation.
• Reports back with recommendations and system health within hours of deployment.

Reports on recommended right-sizing for VMs.

Automatic Equilibrium using real-world metrics and dynamically balancing workloads while adding new applications into the environment.

The planning and automation capabilities are great. Workload placement and right-sizing recommendations are best in the industry.

The ability to automate moving of VMs, Capacity Planning and Reporting have been invaluable to our monthly reporting.

We are using Turbonomic as a capacity management and optimization tool.

• Load Balancing
• Resource reclamation

Originally we looked at Turbonomic as a replacement for our existing virtual management tool as it offered us a real-time view of our environment, which is something we never had before. But it became obvious to us that there was a lot more being offered in the product that we could leverage to ensure our VMware environment was running efficiently.

• VM Right-Sizing
• Project Cluster Resource
• Load Balancing

Ease of navigation throughout the interface.  It is smooth and seamless with very little to no latency when moving between screens and objects.

I really like the capacity dashboard, that allows us to plan our upcoming projects to ensure we have enough resources to support the project.

The resource monitoring and usage reporting have helped keep the VMware clusters balanced and running smoothly. It also helps rightsizing over-provisioned virtual machines (VMs) for resource reclamation.

Workload Placement and Capacity Planning.

Reporting and planning.

Provides automation of cluster resource management.

The ability to monitor and automate both the right-sizing of VMs as well as to automate the vMotion of VMs across ESXi hosts to insure that all resources are being utilized at peak efficiency.

Resource Load Balancing

Right-sizing recommendations

Capacity Planning

Automation in the form of virtual machine migrations in VMware vCenter.

• After implementation and turning on the VMTurbo DRS in automated mode we recognized better and balanced performance on hosts and VM's.
• We use the reports and reclaimed a lot of wasted storage.

• The dashboard, reporting and planning. The dashboard being so customizable makes it very powerful for myself and other team members as it is able to be scoped to whatever the team needs.
• With numerous teams focusing on their own area, it makes it a breeze to set their dashboard to what they want to see, whether it be DBAs, storage or unix team, application owners, they each get their own view into their environment.
• The new reporting function is amazing. Anything you see on the screen, be it dashboard or drilling down to the individual virtual machine, with a click of a button, you can get a report on it.
• The planning feature is amazing as it can help with rolling out mass VMs for say, like a VDI rollout. It helps you determine what the load would be if you add xx amount of VMs.

Dashboards for critical servers. When there is an issue, we can get to critical data quickly. Much faster than using vCenter.

Starting from the reporting and recommendations, every feature has been very helpful. Even when we decided to not fully automate it, now we have a lot more visibility into what is happening, on a single pane of glass.

One of the most valuable features for us was the automation aspect. Defining policies to automate the recommendation process helped us in saving valuable time and reducing manual workload. Going one step further we will be implementing the automatic deployment of hosts based on the desired state information coming from Turbonomic. This way we can have hosts dynamically installed and booted based on our workload.

- Balancing workloads across my environment.

- Planning for additional workloads and purchases.

The real time resource usage and capacity planning have been essential to my work.

Turbonomic does a great job of handling things like:

• Load balancing in VMware clusters
• Giving insights into how VMs are being utilized resource-wise
• Giving insights into how virtualized applications are running inside of VMs
• Offering suggestions (and that can be automated) to adjust clusters, host hypervisors, and VMs for the best performance

Load balancing, reporting, dashboards, and capacity planning.

Turbonomics ability to present suggested improvements, and enact those changes upon approval, have been very helpful in our environment. We are able to right-size VMs and host resources to save money and provide services to the business.

We leverage Turbonomic for all of our planning activities. It provides us the tools we need to plan the scaling of our virtual desktop infrastructure.

Automatic resource use optimization

Great product! We were able to correctly size our VMs giving back CPU, memory, and storage capacity to be used in other projects. We can now reclaim license costs and forecast future resource needs.

Automation of improvements and the planning module.

- The fact that I can monitor all my environments resources from one central console.

- I can provide a report on each individual machine if requested.

- I can trust Turbonomics to streamline my environment by allowing it to perform certain actions.

There are a few we can't live without. Rightsizing (Optimization), Monthly Summary & Cluster Capacity along with the Planning.

The software has truly improved the performance of our VM environment.  The software has made noticeable improvements in DRS.  Turbonomics has made numerous upsizing and downsizing recommendations of virtual machines which allowed us to reclaim and redistribute valuable HW resources.

Storage Analysis and Automated Datastore migration.

Automated resource management.

Notifications on resource congestion.

The top level view of my overall infrastructure's health has been a great tool. Also the ability to view where we can benefit from additional purchases of equipment and such has been a big help.

Action mode policy which allows us to manage our environments on a more proactive front.

Turbonomic's realtime environmental monitoring and aggregated dashboard have been instrumental in expansion decision making for our infrastructure.

One of the most valuable tools we encountered with Turbonomic was not even the automation tool we bought it for, but the sizing tool.  We used it when we did our hardware refresh and it was able to tell us how many servers we would need based on our environment.  It helped us save a lot of money and not overbuy.

Automation options for moving and resizing VMs as necessary have been crucial for our environment's performance.

Smart Analytics to determine environment efficiency.

With this platform we have automated our virtualization management and we are providing performance to our Apps when they needs it and saving CAPEX/ OPEX.

The most valuable features are automation and the single console to manage my virtual environment. Another good feature is that the alerts are in English, so my management team can address issues when I am out of the office.

Today we have found the forecasting of the environment and optimization the most beneficial. 

Obviously, automation has been the most valuable feature - it's what initially attracted us and likely our main reason for purchase. However, its reporting and planning features are also very useful and contribute greatly to ROI.

Planning a projection and right sizing capabilities

I'm primarily using Turbo for rightsizing VMs and to prove to application owners that the software vendor's system requirements for reserving huge amounts of resources aren't necessary.

Migration planning, VM rightsIzing reports, performance assurance dashboards, workload placement rules and planning.

We have always used Turbonomic as a true DRS solution over the provided VMware vCenter service.

Turbonomic has allowed us to achieve greater density with optimal performance to our hosted consumers. The ability to extend Dynamic Resource Allocation across clusters has been our new endeavor with VMTurbo that has optimized our capacity, performance and allowed us to scale outside the limitations of vCenter.

Turbonomic (VMTurbo), once it is set up and running, works behind the scenes to run the VMs as efficiently as possible based on the available resources.

The right sizing and resource balancing.

The automated moving of VM's to hosts that provide the best performance is awesome along with the right-sizing of the VM automatically save a tremendous amount of time.

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

The ability to utilize simple graphs to cost-justify the addition of new equipment and resources is extremely helpful, and goes beyond what is provided in other solutions.

I am able to balance my VMs across all my hosts in my cluster. Also it can help with right-sizing both memory and vCPU.

Automation, reports, capacity planning, dashboards.

The load balancing is the most valuable feature of the product. Turbonomic balances on more metrics than vROps and has helped us utilizing our hosts in a better way. We are also using the API heavily for querying performance data.

Advanced load balancing capabilities, also across clusters. The storage load balancing has helped us avoid LUNs going full. Also, the ability to show historic peak values for guest metrics is a wonderful tool for rightsizing guests.

Automation and planning capabilities have become a valuable asset for us.

- Cluster Projections, Capacity and Planning

- Impact Summary

- VM Maintenance Automation

Auto Load balancing via the homegrown engine that Turbonomic uses.

I've found that the automation of moving VMs for resource allocation is second to none. Excellent feature that makes my life a lot easier.

Turbonomic has tons of features that we use regularly from reports showing us simple IOPS stats, to showing over/under utilized VMs, and even wasted space on our datastores.  We run a cloud for many customers 24/7 and we are not staffed 24/7 so this keeps metrics for what is going on while we sleep.

We have fully automated resource scheduling with our VMware clusters. We have taken recommendations on sizing that have saved hundred of gigabytes of RAM throughout our clusters.

We like the option to create our own dashboards for each team member. Also the availability for Turbonomic to migrate my machines around in my environment makes my job easier.

Removes the need to monitor our virtual environment and I receive daily reports on actions taken for that given day.

Automated move and workload placement.

Resource planning.

Capacity Planning

• Visibility of all workloads, whether on-premise or Azure environments.
• Control of workloads to assure performance and deliver service levels.
• Enforcement of compliance policies across a hybrid cloud.

It is a performance-based application that provides automatic planning on every type of infrastructure, i.e., the on-premise or cloud.

Resource balancing

We were not able to pay for a version higher than vCenter Standard licenses for our virtual environment. Turbonomic stepped in and helped manage all the things that we needed to do to increase responsiveness and lower costs.

I have found the reporting and management functions of Turbonomic second to none. I got introduced to vSphere about two years ago with a running instance of vCOPS and I found it clunky and unclear. Turbonomic gives you a simple yet very detailed overview of your virtual data centre.

The most valuable features to our organization is the automation of the VM’s to prevent performance issues and to balance the resources of our ESX host. The capacity planning reports are also helpful when requesting for additional hardware.

• Visibility of all workloads, whether on-premises or Azure environments

• Control of workloads to assure performance and deliver service levels

• Enforcement of compliance policies across a hybrid cloud

The automation in Turbonomic is priceless, and all the dashboards, native or custom build, give a complete virtual and physical hardware performance view.

The automation has been great. We had some VMs running slow due to high IO on their LUNs, and Turbonomic automatically moved them to correct the problem. Our server performance has been much improved. As the environment changes, Turbonomic adjusts and keeps everything running smooth.

DRS Scheduling/automation. Reporting.

Turbonomic is a great tool that seeks to optimize your IT environment. The holistic approach this software takes to look at your application's supply chain. Optimizing the pieces of the IT environment that supports the applications is a great way to take preemptive measures towards keeping the environment healthy. The support team at Turbonomic is always there to help troubleshoot, teach, and understand the software.

The balancing of clusters has been huge for us. With a high memory contention environment Turbonomic has been invaluable in maintaining excellent performance across all of our clusters. Our DevOps team is working closely with automatic reclamation of resources that will save us tens of thousands of dollars in hardware costs.

The planner feature is my favourite. It lets you had VMs change host RAM capacity, change IOP and NT throughput requirements, basically any scenario that an infrastructure team may get asked about by management.

The ability to group VMs together to provide service or department picture of their infrastructure is great.

Automation And Planning capabilities are most valuable for our company.

Load balancing VMs across our cluster.

Most valuable features were Capacity management and hardware planning.

Reporting is a great feature. Also how it can automate easy tasks so you are not burdened with them.