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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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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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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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View an overview of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager and some of its key features including dashboards, alerts, performance monitoring, capacity planning, and VM sprawl.
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SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Competitors
- Dynatrace
- Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure
- Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo)
- VMware vROps
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
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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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:
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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.
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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.
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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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- Gives us a better idea of how our VMWare environment is running.
- Helps us manage snapshots on VMs.
- Provides us various reporting capabilities on our environment.
May 01, 2020
Virtualization Manager consolidates the views of many environments into one easy-to-use solution
- Less time to troubleshoot problems.
- Fewer resources required to troubleshoot problems.
- Faster resolution time to problems due to the ability to faster identify where problems are.
April 25, 2020
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Review
- I would rate it average, as there are lot of things needed for Virtualization Manager.
April 23, 2020
VMAN, hyperconverged utilization/performance monitoring
- Postive : Manage your VM resources faster.
February 17, 2020
SolarWinds VM Review
- Fully recovered the investment.
- We get notifications whenever devices are down.
February 12, 2020
SolarWinds is a great tool for monitoring software
- Service outages are not maintained well and impacts IT.
- Capacity management across all platforms is impacts time.
December 20, 2019
Current version isn't what it used to be!
- For the environment size we have (and the licensing model we use), it is VERY affordable. I don't think SolarWinds even sells VMAN licensed that way anymore and we're grandfathered in. Therefore, for us, it is a good value.
November 17, 2019
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Review
- Allows me to receive customized alerts
- I can use my resources efficiently
October 09, 2019
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager
- Its a very useful tool and can manage your systems at minimal cost.
- Easy to use.
July 01, 2019
Trying to wrangle your private cloud environment? Never send a child to do the work of a VMAN!
- VMAN is expensive. Make sure you aren't duplicating existing functionality, especially if you have enterprise licensing from your virtualization solution
- VMAN + AppStack is a match made in heaven, but neither AppStack nor VMAN has an out-of-the-box view of your network -- but you can always build one!
- Adding other modules from the SolarWinds Orion platform is part of the secret sauce that makes the Orion environment work so well
January 30, 2019
VMAN is the Man
- We have certainly stopped some outages, particulary where delta files from abandoned VMs have been left to grow. In the past this would have caused an outage with the VM going offline.
- We have reduced resources being consumed by using the over provisoning reporting.
November 16, 2018
Essential for a solid Virtual environment
- The uptime has been improved since we are detecting issues proactively
- The budget estimate for upgrades are more accurate
- Executive reports are more meaningful
October 19, 2018
SVM customisation and API benefits
- It had a positive impact in helping us identify incidents quickly and that helped to resume business operation much faster.
- SVM can be costly compared to other alternatives.
October 19, 2018
SolarWinds VMAN Review - A service provider perspective.
- Every business I have worked with who have adopted VMAN has seen an efficiency improvement. This means that they are able to run more guests on the same hardware, leading to an increased time before requiring further CAPEX for additional capacity.
- Performance benefits, via heeding the recommendations within VMAN, are not to be underestimated. Once VMAN has enough metrics on your estate, it can quickly advise you which guests need more compute, but more importantly which ones are over-provisioined, and can have CPU/memory reduced! This leads to increased capacity.
October 19, 2018
Solarwinds VMAN, doing the job no other module can
- Quick identification of problems on hosts that otherwise would be missed.
- Speed of access to metrics on hosts.
- Less disruptions to customers as problems are dealt with before customers notice them.
- It has helped us cut down on resources on Virtual Machines so we can better use them on other Machines.
- We have been able to push out purchasing new hosts because we were able to reallocate resources to other machines
- Being able to meet targets of investment timelines in the estate architecture is a big one for us so we don't miss out on upgrades.
October 15, 2018
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager- saves time and money
- We've spent less time troubleshooting issues- when a problem comes up, we check our dashboard first.
- At times it's allowed us to resolve problems before the customer is even aware of them.
October 12, 2018
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager has it's Pros and Cons
- Positive TBA, We were hoping for more management based reporting and capacity management across the entire platform. This hasn't been the case as yet.
- Negative, the addition of a number of Cisco Flexpod-based hosts resulted in all hosts crashing due to Configuration collection being set to pull wmi fibrechannell_scsi_inquiry. We've now had to skip this to prevent any outage. But this means that this is turned off for all non-flexpod based servers as well.
October 11, 2018
Another excellent offering from SolarWinds!
- Gave us insight into how much the host hardware was being used, and if it was necessary to invest in expansion or not
- Allowed us to resize VMs based on recommendations made by VMan (some were overprovisioned with resource)
- Helps us to solve performance issues with VMs quicker, reducing business downtime
- Automation of changing resources overnight reduces cost of having an engineer perform the steps manually
October 05, 2018
Virtualization Manager, virtually awesome
- Our customers really appreciate the ability to created VMs in our vCloud environment and know that they are immediately monitored, without having to submit a ticket and wait for an engineer to add them as Nodes.
October 05, 2018
Honest Opinion of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager
- Honestly, I would say close to none. I rarely look at the tab for Virtualization and prefer to just log into vCenter Server to get a better idea of what is going on in the environment.
October 05, 2018
Overseeing the virtualizing of my life.
- Virtualization Manager has vastly decreased the time spent hunting for issues on our virtualized infrastructure. It gives us quick feedback on the systems that need attention and confirmation when systems don't need as much attention.
- It greatly assists in maintaining a birds eye view on clusters. Allows us to see where VMs are sitting and if they need to be moved.
- Helped us find feedback for our cluster capacity. Knowing which clusters are in need of resources and which are not fully utilizing theirs.
October 01, 2018
SolarWinds is a magical tool for infrastructure services.
- It helps me to eliminate 5 tools which we were using before and now SolarWinds gives me everything at the same place.
- Network and Servers in the same tool.
September 28, 2018
Great starting tool but not not the best for automation
- Snapshot Management - It is nice to have an automated tool for cleaning up snapshots because this is often forgotten in the day to day. One of those things that no one wants to do themselves
- VM Management - we are still getting started with this but we keep finding it coming up a little short on exactly what we need, it will do most of the job we need but still requires some manual intervention.