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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds ipMonitor was a lightweight performance monitoring tool that enabled monitoring from a single console and out-of-the-box visibility, with some automation available. The product is discontinued, and no longer available for sale.

    $1,570

    installation

    Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat Virtualization (formerly Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, broadly known as RHEV) is an enterprise level server and desktop virtualization solution. Red Hat Virtualization also contains the functionality of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktop in later editions of the platform.

    $999

    Per Year Per Hypervisor

    Pricing
    SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    ipMonitor - 500 Monitors
    $1570
    installation
    ipMonitor - 1000 Monitors
    $2620
    installation
    ipMonitor -2500 Monitors
    $5770
    installation
    Standard
    $999.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Premium
    $1,499.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    73%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued) and Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Feature
    SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)
    6.7
    24 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Automated network device discovery6.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network monitoring8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts8.223 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network mapping6.619 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports4.223 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued) and Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Feature
    SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    7.7
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
    Management console00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings7.29 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings6.910 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings8.99 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    6.6
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    SolarWinds ipMonitor is well suited in situation where customer do not wants to hold the responsibility of underlying monitoring infrastructure management such as Servers, Database, website and their high availability. And of course when you need Network, Servers, Services fault and performance monitoring. When you have specialized network monitoring requirement such as Configuration backup, netflow traffic analysis then this is not the right tool.
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    Discontinued Products
    RHEV is well suited for organizations that need a cost-effective and flexible solution for their environment. As its vendor-independent software, easily install on any type of hardware. RHEV provides a GUI interface to manage the software, which makes the management of the software easier for the end-user. RHEV is best for non-production or less critical applications. RHEV can be easily integrated with other REDHAT software.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Both network devices and servers may be easily located on the network.
    • It notifies the user whenever any network device undergoes a change in status.
    • Powerful reporting capabilities that provide vital data about your network's devices (uptime, space, utilization of resources on your devices)
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    • RHV issues/bugs can be reported via Bugzilla to RH support. The service is great and typically responds soon.
    • Red Hat distribution integration is seamless as it is integrated into the kernel.
    • OpenStack support enables more customized VM templates and network configuration control.
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    Cons
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    • It is a very complete and versatile software, but its price can be somewhat high for small companies.
    • During the analysis of the collected data the process can be somewhat slow, so it takes more time than expected.
    • Its configuration process can be somewhat complex since it requires several configurations so having prior knowledge is helpful.
    Incentivized
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    • 1- RHVM API is pretty slow, especially after creating a VM it is not possible to retrieve the VM details (i.e VM's MAC Address) fast enough, where we need to place a pause in our Ansible Playbook, make the automation process slow.
    • 2- RHV is still using collected to monitor the hypervisors which is deviating from Red Hat policy for other RHEL based applications to use PCP to monitor, which is richer in features.
    • 3- It will be great if it is possible to patch the hypervisors using other tools such as satellite and not only via RHVM.
    • 4- In the past Red Hat used to present patches in the z release (i.e. 4.3.z), and features in the y release (i.e 4. y), but starting from 4.4 that is mixed together wherein the Z release you get both patches and features, that is not good because that requires a lot of time to test when we patch as it includes features as well.
    • 5- Engineering team has to be more reactive when new feature is requested.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    I have very few pieces of software, that are specific to IT and IT services, that just work. Honestly, I don't need the support as it never breaks, but I believe in rewarding vendors that make valuable products
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    SolarWinds ipMonitor is a perfectly decent network mapper and performance metric gatherer, but it is held back by the UI, which can be hard to navigate once you have more than a couple dozen assets in there. It is fairly priced, but it also sometimes takes a really long time before results come in.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Although I had not much support ticket with ipMonitor support team but I can share my overall experience with SolarWinds products and support team. I am working with SolarWinds support team since last 7 years and in last 2-3 years I have seen a significant improvement in knowledge documentation which is helping end users to troubleshoot problems by themselves. Apart from this SolarWinds phone call based support is very nice as tickets and emails might take some time but a direct phone call can get your job done quickly comparatively.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    We were trying to evaluate different providers and ipMonitor suited us because we had on-prem and cloud instances and management decided to check the paid tool. The ipMonitor is a very responsive tool and it served the purpose well but as IT is evolving and needs are changing, we discontinued the ipMonitor and shifted to Zabbix due to the customization which was the need at the time.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    RHEV is an excellent product, includes more features, is less expensive, and has rock solid reliability and is backed with the best Red Hat Support in the industry. RHEV uses KVM under the hood which is used by all the big players in the industry (AWS, Rackspace, etc) to lower their overall costs and improve efficiency and profits and that's why RHEV is an excellent solution!
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • We currently use an outside service to monitor critical network nodes. We will do away with that service shortly.
    • We no longer have to wait to hear from our users if there is a network device down. We will be proactively alerted and we can begin to remediate immediately helping to limit downtime.
    • After initial setup and some tweaking, it requires little to no time to maintain.
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    Discontinued Products
    • RHEV has provided a positive ROI as our customers are not experiencing as many outages during maintenances.
    • We have not experienced any catastrophic failures as a result of vsphere losing connection to the ntp.
    • There has been a level of stability in our environment that was not previously experienced with our previous vendor.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued) Screenshots

    Product screenshotProduct screenshotScreenshot of Easy to navigate GUI interfaceScreenshot of Remediation FunctionalityScreenshot of Network Discovery Wizard