SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SolarWinds VMAN to monitor our virtualized environment. It gives me in-depth knowledge of the health of our environment and provides recommendations to optimize it as well! The dashboard is rich and customizable.

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds VMAN is beneficial in environments that have grown and have become hard to manage due to size. VMAN brings everything under one roof and has the intelligence to provide you with suggestions to keep it running like a top. It has saved me countless times when it comes to VM performance issues by letting me know that they were lacking resources.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization has used the SolarWinds VMAN to provide remediation assistance to solve virtualization issues by monitoring VM performance and identifying datastores with IOPS latencies.

Likelihood to Recommend

VM-based environments are usually plagued with resource allocation issues. With the SolarWinds VMAN, you can easily identify and reclaim resources to be reassigned for optimization.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this to monitor multiple virtualization environments in our organization to get a good view of the health and performance of all the environments in a single pane of glass. This product has proved to be a big help with managing VM sprawl, which was previously becoming an issue to manage.

Likelihood to Recommend

When running a hybrid environment, a single pane of glass for performance monitoring and alerting is critical. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is well suited to monitoring today's complex hybrid environments with both on-premises and cloud environments. I wouldn't recommend the product for organizations with just a single hypervisor, as you might not get the full benefits.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used SolarWinds Virtualization Manager to monitor performance and plan capacity for virtualization infrastructure. Its recommendations also come in handy to identify possible bottlenecks and optimization possibilities. PerfStack and Sprawl dashboard are handy tools suited for the purpose. Simulations can be used to plan for future capacity. It also had good integration with Orion products.

Likelihood to Recommend

I believe SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is well suited for monitoring and troubleshooting virtualized infrastructure in an enterprise setting, especially with variable load requirements.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it to monitor our VMware virtual environment resources, such as CPU and memory issues on our virtual servers. I have it configured to send emails and alert notifications when any particular machine begins to have issues.

Likelihood to Recommend

[SolarWinds] VMAN is great in a VMware virtual environment. You can configure and set up a great number of alerts and notifications that will help you stay on top of your [environment's] performance.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SolarWinds VMAN to monitor our virtual environment. It automatically generates all alarms into SolarWinds. Messages about heartbeat, tools, [and] other VM options make [it] easy to see inside SolarWinds. All new VM's automatically show up in the VMAN. Also, the hosts are monitored [through] VMAN, including any hardware alerts. There is also the possibility to execute actions from VMAN, e.q. power on/off, reboot VM, or migrate resource. [It is a] great product, easy-to-use, and kept updated with new releases.

Likelihood to Recommend

[It is well suited for] full integration with the virtual environment (VMware vcenter in our case). [It is also useful] when updating [the] host to a new version, including [a] new version of VM Tools. Messages are automatically created in SolarWinds VMAN to notice which VM's still need to be updated with [the] newer version of VM tools. This [makes] management [easy].

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

One of the great aspects of Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is how well it integrates into the Orion platform. We use other Solarwinds products such as SAM and IPAM so all that information is gathered and shown in the correct (expected) locations.

VMAN itself can be configured to only give suggestions or can carry them out automatically. If you know the Orion platform you'll quickly become an expert in VMAN.

Likelihood to Recommend

The bigger or more diverse your vCenter/ESXi deployment is the more you will get out of VMAN. It will make suggestions on things you just didn't have time to look into.

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.

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is used by our Server Team for monitoring our VM environment on Windows and Red Hat. This includes monitoring the VMWare ESX server and all VM's in our environment. It provided performance reports, VM sprawl Management, VM recommendations (over-allocate or under-allocated resources assigned to the VM). Provided Capacity Planning and reporting features.

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) provides complete insight into your VMWare and hypervisor environment. This includes cloud and on-prem. Virtualization Asset Summary provides recommendations for fine-tuning your VM environment for performance issues. It lets you know if you have over-allocated/under-allocated your resources to your VM. VMAN also provides information on the Storage which supports the VM environment. Capacity planning reports are available to find out if the current VM environment can support future demands for your business or if additional resources will be needed.