Another excellent offering from SolarWinds!
October 11, 2018
Another excellent offering from SolarWinds!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager
VMan is being used within our department to monitor and manage the multiple virtual environments that we have. It is an easy way to see what the health of the environment is, and if there are any potential issues arising which need attention.
- Easy to setup - you just need to give it credentials in order to discover your environment, and has many pre-programmed views which give you granular detail
- Intuitive - fairly easy to play with and understand everything, however when needed there is very good documentation and support
- Automation - you can set VMan to increase/decrease resources to VMs, based on their historical workload, and also move them to different hosts based on alerts from the rest of the Orion suite
- Cost - it is fairly expensive, but has more features than comparable products
- Cloud Support - would be nice to have the same granularity with Azure/AWS based VMs
- 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
We settled on VMan as it had the best support out of all the products, but also was built on Windows infrastructure with agentless monitoring which was a requirement.