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

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For us, in production control, it turns out to be a useful tool, which helps us monitor our virtualized environment based on VMWare in real-time. It is practically our day to day in execution of reports to know the health of our hardware based on cisco UCS servers as hosts, as well as in knowing the health of our virtual servers, monitoring practically everything. Obtaining information which prevents us from having a catastrophic failure. It is also a tool that has a very friendly interface and easy to use and is easy to configure. For us, keeping the servers always operating is our main objective, avoiding having non-productive times, which results in having large economic losses due to stopping production. With Solarwinds we are always aware of the status of our virtual infrastructure since alerts are received via email 24/7 giving us time to react satisfactorily.

Pros and Cons

Real-time virtual machine and hardware health status.
Comparison between consumption of processor and memory usage of the Hosts against the consumption of memory usage and processors of virtual machines.
Consumption of processor, memory, and storage usage across clusters in real-time.

Veeam integration for direct backups from Orion for guest OS.

Return on Investment

Avoid having non-productive times.
Information is available immediately.
When the information is required to carry out capacity planning.

Alternatives Considered

Nagios XI and Nagios Network Analyzer

The operation began using Nagios XI, after a year of use, and based on the results obtained, we realized that what our client wanted was not fully met. Our client asked us to use WhatsUp, however, SolarWinds covered in a more efficient way what was required by our client (IT) and even more.

Key Insights

Do you think SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)'s feature set?

Yes

Did SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Where you want to know the health of the infrastructure in real-time and know the proper optimization of resources VMAN is the indicated tool, due to its easy use of administration, configuration, and obtaining reports.

For effective virtual administration VMAN offers more!!!

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)