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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ManageEngine Applications Manager

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AManageEngine Applications Manager is an application performance management solution that also provides the ability to manage end user experience of enterprise Internet Services and hosted Web Services.

    $395

    per year per user

    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds® Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is a tool for monitoring, performance management, capacity planning and optimization for on-premises or cloud-based virtual environments. It also integrates with other SolarWinds products.N/A
    Pricing
    ManageEngine Applications ManagerSolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Editions & Modules
    Professional Edition
    $395
    per year per user
    Enterprise Edition
    $9,595
    per year per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ManageEngine Applications ManagerSolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ManageEngine Applications ManagerSolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Considered Both Products
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answer on this topic
    SolarWinds
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    ManageEngine Applications ManagerSolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of ManageEngine Applications Manager and SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Feature
    ManageEngine Applications Manager
    9.2
    13 Ratings
    19% above category average
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    -
    Ratings
    Application monitoring9.211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threshold alerts8.913 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities9.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console9.310 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools9.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications9.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring8.912 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring9.213 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.912 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery9.95 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ManageEngine Applications ManagerSolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (13 ratings)
    10.0
    (66 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ManageEngine Applications ManagerSolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    It has strength in collecting information through SSH, WMI, Telnet, SNMP, http, https, MSSQL ports (several types of DB postgresql, db2, SAP MaxDB, HANA which we must monitor).The information it extracts is very useful to us since each type of monitor gives us visibility of what happens internally in them.The truth is that the needs that we have had during these years, ManageEngine Application Manager has been able to cover them especially with business core (ERP) with monitoring of SAP Server and SAP CCMS.
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    SolarWinds
    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.
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    Pros
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Intuitive ease of the administration interface
    • Improvements and security fixes that are quickly integrated with frequent updates
    • Visibility into the status of our services and the end user experience (End to End)
    • Reports associated with attributes of services, applications or containers that help us detect certain flaws in our services.
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    SolarWinds
    • 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.
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    Cons
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Plugin Quirks where it times out
    • Navigation through some of the screen seems a bit confusing
    • Consistency such as where license info is location between op and app manager are in different places. Better if it were consistent
    • Maintenance schedules in different locations in both Op and App manger product, needs consistency. They are all Zoho products!!
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    SolarWinds
    • We did have issues during the setup, with successfully connecting to some of our hosts and vCenters and we found support were just sending us back to articles we had already read, it was also taking long periods before getting a response. The issue is still ongoing, in fact.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    For the the trust, security and support that ManageEngine Application Manager has given us, for 12 years as clients, has made us very satisfied and grateful for the response times to resolve doubts or needs that we have had.
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    SolarWinds
    Currently, there is no other tool that gives us what we need to monitor a geographically disperse environment with multiple non-related instances of VM clusters. In addition, the level of reporting, historical data trending, and alerting that VMAN provides is essential for our business process. Lastly, the effort to customize and set up any monitoring system is not trivial. This makes switching to any other product very difficult without being able to clearly demonstrate a ROI.
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    Usability
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The intuitive ease of the administration interface, the new features, improvements and security fixes that are quickly integrated with frequent updates. Tuning or more detailed reports associated with attributes of services, applications or containers that help us detect certain flaws in our services. The capacity for improvements that are implemented and the ease of integrating new monitors into the product, which we need, gives us the speed and ease of preventing interruptions or events that helps us avoid.
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds VMAN is easy to use for everyone. When I say everyone which literally means anyone e.g. Virtualization Environment SME, Consultant, Support Team, Management Officers etc. Anyone who have worked on IT technologies could easily deploy SolarWinds by reading videos, Thwack posts or Virtual Classrooms (Custom Success Centers) - this makes this application easy to operation and for maintenance support is always there.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    We have yet to enconter any issues in terms of availability. We have a highly available SQL cluster running Orion.
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    Performance
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    We find page load times to be quite slow at times. Flipping between tabs can also be very slow.
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    Support Rating
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The trust, security and support that ManageEngine Application Manager has given us, for 12 years as clients, has made us very satisfied and grateful for the response times to resolve doubts or needs that we have had.
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds gives good support. I have never had a time when i was working through a support case where I did not get the support I needed for the required issues to be resolved. I have always had resolutions from SolarWinds support. They are top notch. Issues once had are no more.
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    Implementation Rating
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Its really the best product on the market for someone looking to have total control over their VM environment. anyone interested should download a demo and try it, I know you will buy it after you do. It changing the way you have to manage on a daily basis
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    Alternatives Considered
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Other solutions like Microsoft EM and SCCM can be interdependent and cause all sorts of issues and additional costs. I think software should be optionally integrated and work on its own as a standalone solution. I like that ManageEngine allows for specific use of its software and not forcing users into an unneeded license or contract.
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    SolarWinds
    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.
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    Scalability
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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    SolarWinds
    Purchasing the correct license allows the platform to scale with your environment.
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    Return on Investment
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • By providing valuable insights into application performance and resource utilization, it has contributed to better decision-making and resource allocation.
    • It has helped us identify and resolve performance issues more quickly, minimizing the impact on business operations.
    • ManageEngine Application Manager has improved our ability to monitor and manage critical applications, reducing downtime and improving overall productivity.
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    SolarWinds
    • VMAN has been used for reports provided to executive-level meetings. These reports showed our growth patterns, allowing for easier decisions on purchasing additional hardware.
    • VMAN has provided a positive impact on allowing for near real-time monitoring of resources, able to pinpoint when services are using more memory than expected, not running at all, or other options as defined.
    • VMAN was purchased to help monitor our VMware platform, the added abilities for AWS allowed us to migrate clients from on-prem to cloud-based with the same views.
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    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Screenshots

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