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SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

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What is SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)?

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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VMAN, a virtualization monitoring and troubleshooting tool, has proven to be an invaluable asset for customers in managing their …
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Virtualization Manager

8 out of 10
December 08, 2020
Incentivized
It is used to monitor our Vmware environment. It gives a clear view of the overall status of our 350+ virtualized servers allow us to see …
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What is SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)?

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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Product Details

What is SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)?

SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is an intuitive tool for monitoring, performance management, capacity planning and optimization.

Complete visibility into your environment

Manage both VMware and Microsoft environments - on-premises or in the cloud - with a single tool. VMAN also visualizes how your virtualization connects to application, server, and storage infrastructure for faster troubleshooting.

Clear path to maximize performance

Get insight into the performance, capacity, configuration, and usage of your virtualized infrastructure, including hosts, VMs, clusters and datastores. VMAN delivers recommendations to address active or potential performance issues.

Address virtualization issues efficiently

VMAN can execute a variety of management actions, including power on/off, suspend, reboot a VM, or take and delete snapshots. You can migrate VMs to a different host, and VM disks to a different data store.

Reclaim resources for improved performance

Reclaim virtual resources instantly with VM sprawl alerts and recommendations. VMAN can automatically find idle, stale, and zombie VMs as well as orphaned VMDKs to free up storage space. VMAN can guide you in right-sizing your VMs to recapture CPU and memory resources for further savings.

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Features

  • Supported: Hypervisor specific active alerting
  • Supported: Virtual machine resource planning
  • Supported: Actionable recommendations for remediation of active and predicted VM performance
  • Supported: Visibility into VM Sprawl reclaims resources
  • Supported: Remediate issues without having to log in to a hypervisor
  • Supported: Intuitive dashboards that highlight the most important issues

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SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Dynatrace and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure are common alternatives for SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN).

Reviewers rate Solarwinds Premier Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

VMAN, a virtualization monitoring and troubleshooting tool, has proven to be an invaluable asset for customers in managing their virtualized environments. Users have relied on VMAN to monitor and alert on various aspects of their virtualized environment, such as disk space availability and newly created virtual machines - VMs. With VMAN, users have been able to identify issues with hosts and VM servers that are not visible in vSphere, providing deep insight beyond the capabilities of vSphere alone.

A key use case for VMAN is its ability to help users identify over or under provisioned VM servers and make resource adjustments as needed. The tool provides a single pane of glass view that includes storage and hardware information, giving users a complete view of their virtualized environment. This comprehensive view has allowed users to make informed decisions regarding resource allocation and upgrade planning.

Furthermore, VMAN has been instrumental in supporting IT operations teams in monitoring and managing virtual machines, ensuring proper resource allocation and identifying inactive VMs. It also assists in managing servers by providing important statistics, troubleshooting capabilities, and capacity planning. Through centralized alerting and troubleshooting across virtualization, server hardware, and network switching, VMAN empowers users to efficiently address performance issues and ensure smooth operation of their virtual infrastructure.

In addition to these core use cases, VMAN integrates seamlessly with other SolarWinds products, enabling users to monitor the entire virtualization structure and understand its impact on overall performance. This integration allows for proactive management of the environment by monitoring multiple sites and clusters.

Overall, VMAN simplifies the management of virtualized environments by providing deep insights into resource utilization, proactive monitoring capabilities, and streamlined troubleshooting. Its wide range of features has contributed to improved efficiency, reduced downtime, optimized resource allocation, and enhanced overall performance for many organizations.

Emailed alerts: Users have found the emailed alerts provided by VMAN to be fantastic, with multiple reviewers expressing their satisfaction. This feature allows users to stay informed about important events and issues related to their virtual infrastructure, ensuring prompt actions can be taken when necessary.

Customizable dashboards: The ability to customize dashboards has been highly regarded by users of VMAN. This functionality allows them to tailor the display of information according to their specific monitoring needs and preferences, providing a more personalized and efficient monitoring experience.

Comprehensive range of features: Reviewers have praised the comprehensive range of features offered by VMAN for virtual infrastructure monitoring. They appreciate that VMAN provides a wide variety of tools and capabilities such as capacity planning, performance management recommendations, configuration management, chargeback automation, and managing across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. This extensive feature set ensures that users have all the necessary resources at their disposal for effective virtual infrastructure management.

Licensing Cost: Several users have mentioned that the licensing process of SolarWinds is easy but costly, and they suggest that it could be improved to provide better value for money.

Setup Issues and Unhelpful Support: A number of users have experienced difficulties during the setup of SolarWinds, particularly with connecting to hosts and vCenters. They felt that the support team was unhelpful and only directed them to articles they had already read.

Navigation and Integration Challenges: Users have found the navigation in the VMAN console to be difficult and time-consuming, suggesting that it needs improvement. Additionally, there are ongoing issues with the lack of integration between VMAN and the main SolarWinds Orion console.

Users commonly recommend the following three suggestions for SolarWinds Virtualization Manager:

  1. Customize the product by taking advantage of customization options offered by a partner or SolarWinds to tailor the product to their specific needs. This allows users to optimize the functionality of Virtualization Manager and make it more aligned with their requirements.

  2. Utilize online training and community support by leveraging online training resources provided by SolarWinds and actively participating in the thwack community. These platforms offer valuable insights, best practices, and troubleshooting assistance from other users and experts, enhancing the overall experience with Virtualization Manager.

  3. Maintain VMs/hosts regularly by ensuring regular maintenance of virtual machines (VMs) and hosts. Staying on top of maintenance tasks such as updates, patches, and monitoring performance is crucial for maximizing the benefits of Virtualization Manager. By doing so, users can effectively manage their virtual infrastructure and achieve optimal results.

By implementing these recommendations, users can further enhance their usage of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager and fully leverage its capabilities for their virtualization needs.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 + HyperV) and/or have to support a series of other solutions (network, storage, databases, etc.) then using VMAN is the right choice.

If you are running OpenStack or if you have a significant Cloud presence, VMAN isn't going to help solve your visibility challenges with your multi-site, multi-vendor, multi-platform environment.
January 30, 2019

VMAN is the Man

Rob Bates | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 provides out of the box we also found to be far better than that of Veeam ONES.
Timothy Sawah | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 initiating remediating tasks.
The VMware software is more expensive also.
As for Virtuozzo, the price is really competitive.
Dathon Stokes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 on a single pane of glass.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've attempted to use various conglomerations of Nagios, PRTG, Spiceworks and Zabbix. None were as easy to set up, manage and alert from. None also gave me near the feature set. The out-of-the-box reports and planning features didn't exist. The manual set up was extremely time-intensive and most of that information was lost when I left those workplaces.
Austin Nickens | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At the time it met most of the requirements we had, easy to implement and gave us more insight into our current environment than we had prior to implementing it. Previously we monitored our hosts and VMs individually but this allowed us to see our entire environment on one page.
September 26, 2018

Our VMan

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

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 ability to show a holistic view of the virtual environment is limited if at all available. All the System Center products require some amount of specialized training for the administration of the products. ** The learning curve for VMan was very short. ** Though there is integration between the System Center products the transition between those products is not smooth.

Jennifer Aguilar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Virtualization manager from SolarWinds, I am quite partial to this product, and the whole SolarWinds product line. SolarWinds develops their products according to the users. I can definitely say that the users groups associated to SolarWinds has been the driving factor to success. I am a member of the community, and there is not much that this group can do to influence the product. You can be a member even if you don't have any of their products. You can demo any of the products and SolarWinds appreciates the feedback positive or negative. I can't say enough about SolarWinds, and specifically Virtualization Manager. Tools leveraged properly make great success stories.
Ron Zermeno | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • VMware vSphere with Operations Management
VMware vSphere with Operations Management is a tool that VMware offers and performs the same data collection and presentation, as SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. Where VMware vSphere with Operations Management lacks is in the reporting function. When we used Operations Management, the reports were not informative or non-existent. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager shined in this area for us, and we made the switch.
Tony Albanese | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We looked at Foglight, VMturbo, and vCenter Operations Manager, all great products. We knew we needed a tool but we had a habit of purchasing tools and not using them so we wanted to keep the price tag within reason. The SolarWinds product fit the bill.
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