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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 |
|---|---|
| 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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December 08, 2020
Virtualization Manager
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 when we need to add more capacity of CPU, storage or IO.
- It helps us determine where problems are and helps us determine what is a good cloud candidate.
- Better performance.
- It helped us estimate cloud cost - saving us money.
None.
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IT
3
Mainly Vmware and Windows administrators.
- Gives a single pain of glass into the virtualized platform.
- None
- None
Since we are a Solarwinds customer, selecting a different product would only happen if VMAN didn't work.
No
No
No, just great support.
- Drilling down is easy.
- None
September 02, 2020
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager helps buisness go forward
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is used by the enterprise IT [department] to manage the VMWare environment daily. It gives deep insight beyond what vSphere can and also ties back to storage and hardware giving me a single pane of glass view.
- Recommendations. Those are wonderful. You build out your environment based on a set of criteria from a vendor or others, only to find your resources are poorly used. The VMAN product allows you to make adjustments based on its recommendations and it automates the process for you.
- Pinpoints guests with problems. It provides a graphical and then drills down details to the virtual guests with issues you need to address immediately.
- Capacity planning and sprawl. VMAN gives you all the tools you need to prvent sprawl and plan for the future.
- Licensing. One of the most glaring elements to SolarWinds is the way they license. I feel they could improve this a bit. It a easy process just costly.
- They tell you about orphaned VMDK but don't tell you where it might be used. It says it might be, I feel it should check.
- This product will pay for itself. It's expensive to license but then pays for it self when you see it work every day.
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 virtual environment and are able to be the virtual manager you need to be.
No
- Product Features
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
Integration with Orion. We are heavy Orion uses and we wanted something that was going to be fully integrated with it. VMAN was it, it handled everything we need it to do and many things we did not know we needed or wanted. Its been a great addition to the tool sets.
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IT and systems administrators, they help manage admin and production sides of the enterprise.
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Experience with Virtual software, experience with Orion.
- Overview of Virtual Infrastructure
- Recommendations for changes to environment
- Planning and forecasting
- Sprawl, keeping it controlled
- Capacity planning for future proofing the network
- Budgeting for future years
- Hardware justification
- automation of recommendation processes
I don't know that o would change anything. I would still have chosen it since it is the best thing on the market.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- Understanding how to configure the product
- becoming familiar with the interface
- ensuring all the items were configured to perform properly.
- no training
I do not believe you will need any training.
You should always keep it as simple as possible. Keep all the built in dashboards as they are and create your own if you want to make changes.
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
We have built our own dashboards to custom views. We try not to change the default SolarWinds screens.
Some - we have added small pieces of custom code
We have very little. Mostly for display options.
No, we kept the system very vanilla.
No
I pay for maintenance and I get upgrades and support. I have never needed to pay more for support. They do a good job covering the required issues, and i have friends aka community that helps along the way. THWACK.com is an amazing resource for all things SolarWinds. I think they do their best.
No
Case in point, I could not see the recommendations and they were able to resolve it. The process took several days but they technicians never stopped working on it. Each day we would work together to resolve the issue. this sometimes meant that we found other things needing fixed too and they were.
- Recommendations
- Sprawl
- Capacity Planning
- Reporting
- Storage
No
We have Net 45 and had a wonderful package which was valued over 14K for just over 7 in actual.
Buy later in the year. Co-Term everything.
July 23, 2020
Can handle it in a single glass pane
It is great to have auto-monitoring from SolarWind's virtualization tool. We use this tool in our department. It is great if we want quick and fast results and solutions. It provides an accurate status of the system. I also like the way it can be used for monitoring troubleshooting and optimising; it's very simple to use. We use it for cleaning up data.
- It provides information alerts and allows us to have the accurate status of the system.
- Helps in problem solving before anything serious can arise.
- Increases the uptime by optimising the provisions of the resources.
- Simple to install and easy to use.
- Gives graphical presentation by showing where the problem is shown.
- performance monitoring, VM sprawl control, configuration management, and chargeback automation; all in one awesomely affordable product that’s easy to download, deploy, and use. Simply download and install the software and take a break while Virtualization Manager auto-discovers the virtual machines in your environment.
- It's a bit expensive.
- A license is hard to get.
- Better if it could be allowed to have a lot more automation.
- Monitors resources and makes recommendations on changes and upgrades.
- Sometimes VM seems to over-report on issues. An example would be that we have allocated memory to the VMs to a point at the monitored threshold. Instead of it understanding that was allocated and basing memory utilization on the host based on its available memory (for the host OS), it reports warnings that it is low on memory resources. This should not be an option.
- VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery, IBM Analytics Engine and vSphere
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 some daily & weekly reports sent to my inbox to help keep tabs on things like available disk space and newly created VMs.
Solar winds virtualization manager stacks up against them because of this features
• unified dashboards, alerting, and management • Use the host agent to run Snap™ and Telegraf™ plug-ins and provide drop-in monitoring for your key systems, and • Leverage the large number of built-in integrations available for both systems to extend the solution to meet your infrastructure monitoring needs.
Solar winds virtualization manager stacks up against them because of this features
• unified dashboards, alerting, and management • Use the host agent to run Snap™ and Telegraf™ plug-ins and provide drop-in monitoring for your key systems, and • Leverage the large number of built-in integrations available for both systems to extend the solution to meet your infrastructure monitoring needs.
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- Product Usability
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
6
Used to evaluate the medical services and data reports of the patients with medical services
4
IT , HR,Social workers, insurance agents
- email alerts from social workers
- medical service requests
- parient history and status in the dash board
- emails requests
- time sheet complience
- medical service protocols etc
- medical services
- timeline complience
I will change the memory with more intelligence of the tool . i will upgrate the version of VMAN With built-in actionable intelligence see how Virtualization Manager 7.0 and help you fix active issues and prevent future ones from ever happening. Recommendations help optimize VM CPU and memory size, VM host placement, host utilization, and more.
Yes
Yes
yes
yes having end-to-end visibility of the health and performance of your network is paramount to ensuring your users will have the services they need.