Item: SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is being used by the VMware team. It addresses the problem of not being able to easily see the health of the VMware environment. It gives the engineers the ability to see everything on a single pane of glass. You can see which VMs need more memory/resources and which have too much, in which resources can be reclaimed.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Single pane of glass
To be able to see VMware health/predictions of what is coming down the pike
Recommendations to improve the virtual environment

Cons

Sometimes there are glitches when updating the software
Free training videos

Return on Investment

Allows me to receive customized alerts
I can use my resources efficiently

Other Software Used

CloudHealth by VMware, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft System Center

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is well suited for quickly viewing or revealing what is really going on in your VMware environment. You can customize your dashboards to see what you need or want to see. SolarWinds is well suited if you are limited in VMware resources, to reclaim resources from VMs that are over provisioned.

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SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Review