Essential for a solid Virtual environment
November 16, 2018
Essential for a solid Virtual environment
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is used by the IT systems engineer. This tool enabled us to monitor all the virtual servers in the environment. It works across different platforms like VMware and Hyper-V. The system helped to detect virtual server problems before they occur and perform proactive maintenance. SolarWinds VMAN has advanced reporting capabilities and a customizable dashboard. We used this application to forecast the virtual environment growth and accordingly estimate annual budget.
- I created custom dashboards, to view the different elements of the virtual environment. For example, you can view the number of online VMs and those off, or disconnected. You can also choose to see the status of every virtual cluster, the storage disk usage on every VM, the RAM usage, CPU usage.
- I used this application to see the growth of virtual memory in each cluster and accordingly do forecasting for future growth. A capacity planner included in this application would help in doing accurate estimations and setting a future upgrade budget.
- Another powerful tool was the customized reports, where i could generate reports on any element of the VM or cluster. Reports can be exported to Excel or PDF and are very useful for sharing information with colleagues and management.
- Alerts can be customized. For example, you can set a rule to get an email alert if any virtual server RAM usage exceeds 85% and send a text message if RAM usage exceeds 90% for more than 10 minutes.
- Generating a new license key upon renewal and then installing the new key is not a straightforward process. I think license renewal should be handled using easier methods
- Solarwinds VMAN is a VM itself, so in case the cluster or ESX/host where it resides fails, there won't be a way to get alerted.
- There account managers are really annoying, every year they start calling and sending emails 3 month before renewal.
- The uptime has been improved since we are detecting issues proactively
- The budget estimate for upgrades are more accurate
- Executive reports are more meaningful
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.
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.