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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ManageEngine Site24x7

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASite24x7 from ManageEngine is a full-stack application, website, server, cloud and network monitoring tool. Site24x7 offers code-level diagnostics and customizable error thresholds, end-to-end monitoring with topology visualization tools, and mobile accessibility.

    $9

    10 monitors

    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds® Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is a tool for monitoring, performance management, capacity planning and optimization for on-premises or cloud-based virtual environments. It also integrates with other SolarWinds products.N/A
    Pricing
    ManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $9.00
    10 monitors
    Pro
    $35.00
    40 Monitors
    Classic
    $89.00
    100 Monitors
    Elite
    $225.00
    250 Monitors
    Enterprise
    $449.00
    500 Monitors
    Enterprise Plus Web
    $899.00
    2500 Monitors
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$1 monitorsNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsEach Pack will also support additional benefits such as Network interfaces, Applogs, Alert credits etc. You can also, purchase add-ons to create custom pricing options. Please visit the vendor's pricing page, for more information.—
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    Community Pulse
    ManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Considered Both Products
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Chose ManageEngine Site24x7
    Each solution excels in their own areas. Site24x7 provides the easiest and most cost-effective transactional monitoring from the previous and existing solutions which we use. However, Solarwinds Orion suite, which includes the virtualization manager, gives us full-stack …
    Incentivized
    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Easier out of the box experience saving 100 of man hours configuring checks. Also much friendly UI. But main benefit is the full stack picture it can provide which seems to be forever growing.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    ManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of ManageEngine Site24x7 and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Feature
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    8.4
    11 Ratings
    1% above category average
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    -
    Ratings
    Remote monitoring9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network device monitoring7.58 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring8.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of ManageEngine Site24x7 and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Feature
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    7.4
    9 Ratings
    7% above category average
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    -
    Ratings
    Policy-based automation7.49 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of ManageEngine Site24x7 and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Feature
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    7% above category average
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    -
    Ratings
    Performance data reports8.110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reporting8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data visualization8.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Risk analysis8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of ManageEngine Site24x7 and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Feature
    ManageEngine Site24x7
    6.6
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    -
    Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (13 ratings)
    10.0
    (66 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ManageEngine Site24x7SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    [Site24x7 All-in-One Monitoring is] well suited in website monitoring where especially for uptime and availability of the website. Due to its cloud nature, the company has servers distributed globally that allow to check site availability from anywhere in the world.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    On the whole, Solarwinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is an excellent product which gives us a single point to monitor our virtual environment. After our initial trial I was sold on the product and what it had to offer. Immediately after implementing VMAN, we were able to spot virtual machines with old snapshots which were never deleted and no longer needed, we could spot virtual machines which either had over allocated resources or under allocated resources meaning we could make changes and fine tune them for best performance. We could also monitor virtual machine latency, IOPS, and show us where our bottlenecks were.
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    Pros
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Very clean website UI. Tests are well categorized and navigation is very simple.
    • The accompanying mobile app is very useful when on the go as it can also notify you of any issues.
    • The cost of the platform is very cheap and the cost also scales at a low amount.
    • No on-premise footprint. All cloud-based.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    • I created custom dashboards, to view the different elements of the virtual environment. For example, you can view the number of online VMs and those off, or disconnected. You can also choose to see the status of every virtual cluster, the storage disk usage on every VM, the RAM usage, CPU usage.
    • I used this application to see the growth of virtual memory in each cluster and accordingly do forecasting for future growth. A capacity planner included in this application would help in doing accurate estimations and setting a future upgrade budget.
    • Another powerful tool was the customized reports, where i could generate reports on any element of the VM or cluster. Reports can be exported to Excel or PDF and are very useful for sharing information with colleagues and management.
    • Alerts can be customized. For example, you can set a rule to get an email alert if any virtual server RAM usage exceeds 85% and send a text message if RAM usage exceeds 90% for more than 10 minutes.
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    Cons
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Ability to edit an existing maintenance schedule, vs creating a new one each time
    • Grouping of emails to SMS and non SMS alerts to save on false alerts
    • Setup of Realtime user monitor was not as functional as expected with regard to adding 3rd party scripts.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    • We did have issues during the setup, with successfully connecting to some of our hosts and vCenters and we found support were just sending us back to articles we had already read, it was also taking long periods before getting a response. The issue is still ongoing, in fact.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Currently, there is no other tool that gives us what we need to monitor a geographically disperse environment with multiple non-related instances of VM clusters. In addition, the level of reporting, historical data trending, and alerting that VMAN provides is essential for our business process. Lastly, the effort to customize and set up any monitoring system is not trivial. This makes switching to any other product very difficult without being able to clearly demonstrate a ROI.
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    Usability
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds VMAN is easy to use for everyone. When I say everyone which literally means anyone e.g. Virtualization Environment SME, Consultant, Support Team, Management Officers etc. Anyone who have worked on IT technologies could easily deploy SolarWinds by reading videos, Thwack posts or Virtual Classrooms (Custom Success Centers) - this makes this application easy to operation and for maintenance support is always there.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    We have yet to enconter any issues in terms of availability. We have a highly available SQL cluster running Orion.
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    Performance
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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    SolarWinds
    We find page load times to be quite slow at times. Flipping between tabs can also be very slow.
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    Support Rating
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    I have only had to use support once, so I can't go into much detail about their support team. The one time I did use it the response was fast but the resolution took some time.
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds gives good support. I have never had a time when i was working through a support case where I did not get the support I needed for the required issues to be resolved. I have always had resolutions from SolarWinds support. They are top notch. Issues once had are no more.
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    Implementation Rating
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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    SolarWinds
    Its really the best product on the market for someone looking to have total control over their VM environment. anyone interested should download a demo and try it, I know you will buy it after you do. It changing the way you have to manage on a daily basis
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    Alternatives Considered
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The biggest difference between Site24x7 and products like PRTG, Nagios, or Icinga, is that Site24x7 is hosted off the network, completely externally. The others do a great job on network alerts-- and some can even be configured to send SMS or phone calls with the right equipment and plugins-- but they usually reside in the network or at least on-site. Hosting them in the cloud might be a way around that, in which case they would be pretty similar to Site24x7 in capability, but without the additional software costs in the case of Nagios and Icinga (both open source).
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    SolarWinds
    The operation began using Nagios XI, after a year of use, and based on the results obtained, we realized that what our client wanted was not fully met. Our client asked us to use WhatsUp, however, SolarWinds covered in a more efficient way what was required by our client (IT) and even more.
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    Scalability
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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    SolarWinds
    Purchasing the correct license allows the platform to scale with your environment.
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    Return on Investment
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Cost savings have been substantial at approximately 70%.
    • We do suffer delayed email notifications and regular locational failures from 24x7. However, this is easily overcome by extra locational checks.
    • Much quicker responses from out of hours teams with the benefit of the mobile app, which is user-friendly.
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    SolarWinds
    • VMAN has been used for reports provided to executive-level meetings. These reports showed our growth patterns, allowing for easier decisions on purchasing additional hardware.
    • VMAN has provided a positive impact on allowing for near real-time monitoring of resources, able to pinpoint when services are using more memory than expected, not running at all, or other options as defined.
    • VMAN was purchased to help monitor our VMware platform, the added abilities for AWS allowed us to migrate clients from on-prem to cloud-based with the same views.
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    ScreenShots

    ManageEngine Site24x7 Screenshots

    Screenshot of Component wise metric breakdown in a Webpage Speed (Browser) monitorScreenshot of Summary page for a windows server monitorScreenshot of Response time and outages summary for a DNS server monitorScreenshot of Summary page for traces run on a Java applicationScreenshot of Desktop and mobile view of a Website monitorScreenshot of Homepage view

    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Screenshots

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