SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

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SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Score 9.4 out of 10
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SolarWinds® 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
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SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
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Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
We chose SolarWinds for the price point, the ability for Single Pain of Glass monitoring for Dashboards, and having a single vendor to support all our monitoring needs.
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
We selected [SolarWinds] VMAN because we already had [SolarWinds] products and it was simple enough to get it added in.
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
In the past we had used VMware's VRealize yet this integration into our Orion platform makes it easier to work with plus there is price savings when we moved to VMAN.
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
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) …
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
SolarWinds VMAN provides comprehensive monitoring and performance metrics for your VM environment. Provides Recommendations for optimal VM performance. SolarWinds VMAN integrates with the Orion Platform and provides a single pane of glass for monitoring your entire VM …
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Logic Monitoring
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Honestly we didn't check in depth other vendors, because we use the entire Solarwinds Eco-system.
So first of all, we want to keep one unique tool to handle everything. In addition the migration to another product would be super difficult or nearly impossible.
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
None.
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Datadog and Log Monitor are doing great in bringing in new technologies for monitoring, however SolarWinds has still got edges since we are using it [for] many years. By using [it], we know that their product development team was always on top of new technologies monitoring. …
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
SolarWinds is far superior to the base tools. Every manufacture has a management tool that often has really good benefits to using it, however with VMAN you get a single pane of glass for so much more than just Virtual Machines and or storage. You gain total control of your …
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Seamless incorporation into the Orion framework. We needed a tool to tell us what was going on with our vSphere environment beyond what vCenter was telling us. There are just 2 of us that manage 40 ESXi hosts on1000 virtual machines and we needed some additional insight. I have …
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.
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
VCOPS but SolarWinds is more flexible and a lot cheaper
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
I have not used any other product, other that the VMware vSphere. So I really cannot comment on how it compares. Like I said earlier it does what we need and it does it quite well
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Virtualization Manager does a much better job of bringing all of the relevant system information together in an easy to view and use interface.
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
  • Good performance of the application
  • Visually well designed
  • Really useful topology creation in comparison to most competitors
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Better performance monitoring. Was able to see bottlenecks in our network that we were able to address. Ability to set thresholds and critical warning alerts to match our specific business needs and parameters. The predefined reports helped us with metrics to ensure the …
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
If you used these two products, you know the difference. It's too vast to explain here. PRTG does have its place in a network, but SolarWinds is the high bar in this space.
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Veeam ONE is a product to compare against SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. Veeam ONE is a solid product, however, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager has multiple product tie-ins for a bigger more complete picture of the total environment it is deployed in. It is hard to put a …
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
We have trialed almost all of the SolarWinds family of products if they were seen to have a potential positive effect on our environment and ability to find/resolve problems. We are currently using all of the products outlined previously as it gives us an excellent top down …
Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
It has the capability of all monitoring products individually and it is easy to work within the VMware monitoring tool.
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User Ratings
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(65 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.6
(7 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(7 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(1 ratings)
Performance
6.4
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(6 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(3 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.2
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
10.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds
[It is well suited for] full integration with the virtual environment (VMware vcenter in our case). [It is also useful] when updating [the] host to a new version, including [a] new version of VM Tools. Messages are automatically created in SolarWinds VMAN to notice which VM's still need to be updated with [the] newer version of VM tools. This [makes] management [easy].
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Pros
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
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.
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Likelihood to Renew
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
SolarWinds
Purchasing the correct license allows the platform to scale with your environment.
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Return on Investment
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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