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Read full review 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.
Read full review Pros Its ability to detect and correct IBM MQ issues before they effect the production. performance trends and statistics in real-time. Rapid and accurate monitoring of Command Servers, Dead Letter Queues, Queue Managers, Qdepth and Listeners. Built-in complex event processing to gain valuable visibility into order fulfillment processes Read full review 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. Read full review Cons The UI needs a lot of improvements to meet today's standards while keeping the functional part highly performing as it used to be Being unable to run reports through the workgroup security manager is a serious con, I think they need to consider giving it more attention the auto-monitoring feature performance goes low when it's enabled during a heavy workloads, it leads to a lower/heavier performance, but during the latest update I feel it got lighter somehow. They also need to give more attention to the encryption and enhance it with the latest encryption technologies Read full review 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. Rob Bates Public & Private Cloud Senior Engineer
Read full review Likelihood to Renew 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.
Read full review Usability 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.
Read full review Reliability and Availability We have yet to enconter any issues in terms of availability. We have a highly available SQL cluster running Orion.
Rob Bates Public & Private Cloud Senior Engineer
Read full review Performance We find page load times to be quite slow at times. Flipping between tabs can also be very slow.
Rob Bates Public & Private Cloud Senior Engineer
Read full review Support Rating 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.
Read full review Implementation Rating 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
Read full review Alternatives Considered 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.
Read full review Scalability Purchasing the correct license allows the platform to scale with your environment.
Rob Bates Public & Private Cloud Senior Engineer
Read full review Return on Investment A reduction in point of sale abandonment by 70% reflects the change in mindset of customers who are no longer irritated by price anomalies. The company was able to merge many unnecessary servers due to thousands of useless queues it had, resulting in yearly savings of more than $250,000 improved efficiency and cost-savings by 80% within the first 2 months Read full review 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. Read full review ScreenShots SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Screenshots