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Solarwinds VMAN 10 years later..
April 30, 2024

Solarwinds VMAN 10 years later..

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

We make use of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) to monitor our virtual infrastructure. This includes monitoring snapshot usage, VM's with over or under allocated resources, VM performance in terms of CPU, Memory, and network usage, VM Alerting, and using it to forecast future storage requirements.
This allows us to monitor our virtualisation environment from a single point with real time alerting for any faults.
  • Utilization Metrics, CPU, Memory, Latency, IOPS
  • Snapshot management
  • Alerting of Guests/Hosts with problems
  • Orphaned VM's and files.
  • Would be nice to have AppStack Environment pane a little easier to navigate/understand.
  • It's cut down on time spent resolving VM performance issues
  • We're able to monitor our VM's from a single location, providing insights into VMware usage and performance
To be honest we never looked into any other products. We already made use of SolarWinds SAN, and once we found out SolarWinds was also able to monitor our virtual environment, we immediately had a trial of the software. We were very happy with what the VMAN component had to offer as well as having it integrate into our already existing SolarWinds SAM environment.

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

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM), SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM), SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (npm), SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)
On the whole, Solarwinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is an excellent product which gives us a single point to monitor our virtual environment. After our initial trial I was sold on the product and what it had to offer. Immediately after implementing VMAN, we were able to spot virtual machines with old snapshots which were never deleted and no longer needed, we could spot virtual machines which either had over allocated resources or under allocated resources meaning we could make changes and fine tune them for best performance.
We could also monitor virtual machine latency, IOPS, and show us where our bottlenecks were.