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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SolusVM

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASolusVM from Plesk, a Swiss company, allows the user to Manage OpenVZ, Xen and KVM virtual machines from one central point.

    $3

    per month

    Spotlight

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASpotlight from Quest Software is a database performance monitoring option.N/A
    Pricing
    SolusVMSpotlight
    Editions & Modules
    Slave Only
    $3.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    $10.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SolusVMSpotlight
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    SolusVMSpotlight
    SQL Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of SQL Performance Monitoring features of SolusVM and Spotlight
    Feature
    SolusVM
    -
    Ratings
    Spotlight
    7.7
    3 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Performance dashboard00 Ratings8.83 Ratings
    Intelligent alerting00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Top SQL00 Ratings6.62 Ratings
    Historical trend data00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Virtualization support00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SolusVMSpotlight
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Score10 out of 10
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter
    Score7.6 out of 10
    SolarWinds SQL Sentry
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SolusVMSpotlight
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SolusVMSpotlight
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Plesk International GmbH
    SolusVM is best-suited to automate VPS services where your users can easily order, customize, manage and upgrade their virtual servers easily. It is less appropriate for managing a single server that does not need to virtualize a cluster of virtual servers.
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    Quest Software
    Spotlight’s ability to consolidate data from various entities and provide insightful reports is highly beneficial. It streamlines financial reporting, allowing professionals to focus on advisory services and strategic decision-making.Small businesses, nonprofits, and organizations that need regular board packs or executive summaries find Spotlight useful. Less Appropriate: Certain industries (e.g., specialized manufacturing, healthcare, or research) have unique reporting needs. Spotlight’s generic templates may not cover all industry-specific metrics or compliance requirements.
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    Pros
    Plesk International GmbH
    • Easily manage VPS with OpenVZ, KVM, and Xen virtualization technologies
    • Flexible licensing starting from USD 2.5 per month
    • Guarantees highly available, reliable, secure and scalable virtual private servers
    • Automates your VPS hosting service on a breeze
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    Quest Software
    • Great SQL server monitoring
    • Rewind and playback of previous times
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    Cons
    Plesk International GmbH
    • Less collection of OS templates
    • It is a bit expensive compared to similar software Virtualizer
    • Plesk has shifted their main focus from SolusVM to SolusIO
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    Quest Software
    • My only complaint was the cost.
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    Usability
    Plesk International GmbH
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    Quest Software
    the platform offers a clean, easy to use interface. You can customize reports and dashboard. Integration is also pretty good, you can integrate to Xero, QBO and MYOB and excel spreadsheets. It also offers very broad supporting documents and webinars. There are only two downside of Spotlight; learning curve (it could be a bit difficult at the beginning to learn the system) and price point (For small businesses, Spotlight Reporting can be seen as relatively expensive compared to other reporting tools)
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    Support Rating
    Plesk International GmbH
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    Quest Software
    I've never had to contact support, as of yet I have had no issues or problems with the tool. This is after 5 years of use.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Plesk International GmbH
    SolusVM is more reliable, robust, stable, and offers more flexible licensing. Very active support team and a futuristic user interface that our clients love.
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    Quest Software
    I think Dell is better with its dashboard and ease of use, but SQL Sentry is better at customization. We used Spotlight at my previous company, and SQLSentry at my current company.
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    Return on Investment
    Plesk International GmbH
    • SolusVM has helped us to easily automate our VPS management service
    • It has decreased our server maintenance cost by many folds
    • It has helped us to provide more reliable and scalable VPS services to our customers
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    Quest Software
    • Spotlight is reasonably inexpensive, and any one of the multiple things we use it for more than justifies the cost.
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