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.
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VMware vCenter
Score 9.0 out of 10
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VMware vCenter is an advanced server management software that provides a centralized platform for controlling vSphere environments for visibility across hybrid clouds. VMware vCenter is no longer sold as a standalone product and is now available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation.
In our experience, the market for exemplary tools for managing a VMware environment is pretty small. Either go with the VMware tools, which may or may not be part of your enterprise licensing, or use a 3rd-party platform. If you have a multi-vendor environment (say VMware + …
We're also a Veeam customer and have assessed Veeam ONE. We found the interface to be lacking and the contents misleading. Having VMAN in a single pane of glass integrated with the rest of our Orion products makes life very easy and everything very clear. The features that VMAN …
The Cisco solution is more expensive and complex to install and configure The VMware Horizon does not detect and manage the non VMware VMs such as Microsoft Hyper-V In case the environment is purely VMware, then VMware Horizon provides more possibilities of managing the VMs and …
I've only tried out a few products, but we were already using SolarWinds for other things, and the capability of having all your monitoring products integrated is extremely valuable. Also, it is much easier to work with than VMWare's monitoring tools.
Orion was overly complicated to set up and also needed a lot of fine tuning to get the product to work the way one needed it to work in their environment. SolarWinds was really simple to use and set up and provided the best visibility to all of the devices we needed to monitor …
VMware vCenter Server accommodates only VMware hosts and guests. The dashboards are not customizable and require a lot of clicks to get the necessary information on a host or guest.
MS Configuration Manager and Virtual Machine Manager are cumbersome when compared to VMan. The …
SolarWinds VMAN is purpose built to monitor virtual environments, and as such is integrated well with VMware. The completeness of Solarwinds product offerings made VMAN an easy choise, as did the fairly easy configuration and setup. A key feature that was essential to us was …
vCenter is much more complete as a solution than other products that I have looked at and it works very well for our environment. vCenter is very easy to configure and does not have the unnecessary steps to set up and configure. Also, the different storage vendor support …