SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Reviews & Insights

Score10 out of 10

123 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Emailed alerts: Users have found the emailed alerts provided by VMAN to be fantastic, with multiple reviewers expressing their satisfaction. This feature allows users to stay informed about important events and issues related to their virtual infrastructure, ensuring prompt actions can be taken when necessary.

Customizable dashboards: The ability to customize dashboards has been highly regarded by users of VMAN. This functionality allows them to tailor the display of information according to their specific monitoring needs and preferences, providing a more personalized and efficient monitoring experience.

Comprehensive range of features: Reviewers have praised the comprehensive range of features offered by VMAN for virtual infrastructure monitoring. They appreciate that VMAN provides a wide variety of tools and capabilities such as capacity planning, performance management recommendations, configuration management, chargeback automation, and managing across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments. This extensive feature set ensures that users have all the necessary resources at their disposal for effective virtual infrastructure management.

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Reviews

23 Reviews

Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)

Solarwinds VMAN 10 years later..

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2024

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.

Pros

Utilization Metrics, CPU, Memory, Latency, IOPS
Snapshot management
Alerting of Guests/Hosts with problems
Orphaned VM's and files.

Cons

Would be nice to have AppStack Environment pane a little easier to navigate/understand.

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.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (Government Relations company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

A necessity for any virtual environment!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 29, 2022

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.

Pros

VM sprawl management
Capacity planning
Performance management
visibility across all of our datacenters

Cons

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.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Utilities company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

SolarWinds VMAN is a Solid Product

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

January 19, 2022

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.

Pros

Monitor CPU ready conditions in VMs
Monitor high memory usage in VMs
Monitor high CPU usage for sustained periods in VMs

Cons

I liked the previous view when it was installed [independently] outside of SolarWinds.
[I would like it if it could] bring back some of the views/graphs the older [SolarWinds] VMAN had.

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.

Oscar Resendez

Sr Systems Administrator in Information Technology at CoG (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

SolarWinds VMAN Easy-to-Use Monitoring Virtual Environment

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 19, 2022

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.

Pros

Integration with [the] virtual environment
Monitoring of VM and Host status and alerts
Option to control VM and Host from VMAN

Cons

No known improvements

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].

Verified User

Professional in Engineering (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

For effective virtual administration VMAN offers more!!!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 19, 2022

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

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.

Cons

Veeam integration for direct backups from Orion for guest OS.

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.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Automotive company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

SolarWinds VMAN Powerful and Simple VM Monitoring

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 18, 2022

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.

Pros

Performance Management
Recommendations
Virtualization Sprawl
VMWare Events

Cons

Additional OOB Reports

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.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Get a better picture with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 3, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is used by the IT department at our organization. VMAN is utilized by the department to run health checks and metrics. VMAN allows us to properly compare workload numbers from multiple days, weeks, months, and years. These comparisons let us determine when and how we need to add or remove resources from our virtual environment, both on-prem and cloud-based.

Pros

VMAN allows for workload monitoring in virtualized on-prem and cloud-based resources.
VMAN allows for easy views of how individual applications/databases/etc are tied to other resources.
VMAN allows for easy views into expected growth patterns within our platforms.

Cons

Some of the issues I have with VMAN come from how agents and the systems integrate together with the console.
Background services required to run VMAN have to be adjusted frequently for optimal performance of the service.

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is a product that works very well for my organization. The program is very strong in reports including under and oversizing of VMs and related resources within our on-prem deployment. The reporting tools for AWS-based resources is not as strong as the options within VMware, however, these capabilities are getting better.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Higher Education company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Virtualization Manager consolidates the views of many environments into one easy-to-use solution

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 1, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using it within my department as it does not provide any value to the other departments. It is currently used with all of our other SolarWinds products that provide a fantastic monitoring environment that helps us find/resolve issues quickly.

Pros

Monitoring virtualization environments.
Identifying asset locations within the virtualization environment.
Identifying possible causes of problems within our entire environment.

Cons

Orion environment can at times be slow to load.

Likelihood to Recommend

This paired with the other SolarWinds suite of tools is a great all-encompassing monitoring environment. By itself it does a great job, but with everything else it's a complete solution for an entire environment.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Legal Services company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

VMAN, hyperconverged utilization/performance monitoring

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 23, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is reliable when you have many virtualizations in your infrastructure. It helps you to maintain how effective & efficient you manage the virtualization with VMAN forecasting. Some customers have the problem where they can't manage multi hyper-converged into a single-pane dashboard, and VMAN makes it easier and faster.

Pros

VM capacity planning
VM forecasting
VM monitor multi hyperconverged
VM capacity advisor

Cons

More vendor could be covered

Likelihood to Recommend

It will be useful if you have a large hyper-converged infrastructure.

Brian Ambarita

Post Sales Support Engineer in Professional Services at Westcon-Comstor (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

3 years of experience

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Current version isn't what it used to be!

Rating: 1 out of 10

Incentivized

December 20, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Before I get started, you should know that I'm intentionally running v7.1, and all answers to this survey will be referring to that version. That's because future versions DO NOT deliver the information in the same way and the product has lost much of its value as a result. Support was NOT helpful in finding a solution or getting their "new" product to behave the same way. That said, to answer your question, I'm the only person in the company who uses VMAN daily, or at all, really. It gives me a "coffee-cup-view" each morning of how our hosts and VMs have been performing (Memory, CPU, IOPS, Network) and it is one of the first places I check when I get calls about performance.

Pros

Up through v7.1, a quick view of server (host and VM) performance and trends.

Cons

Through v7.1, it was everything we needed. Since then, the graphs that would harvest performance figures (network, memory, CPU, IOPS), would never display the same way, and would not refresh with the frequency to make the data digestible.

Likelihood to Recommend

I can really only speak to v7.1 because future versions DO NOT deliver the information in the same way and the product had lost much of its value as a result. Support was NOT helpful in finding a solution or getting their "new" product to behave the same way. The reason I wouldn't recommend it to a colleague is that its new ("supported") versions don't do what I want them to or what the old version did. The old version would clearly identify how servers (physical and virtual) were performing currently, as well as how they've performed historically, and I could see right away if things are "normal" or need attention. We tried subsequent versions, but the data refresh was not frequent enough to give the same easily understandable graphs.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Chemicals company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

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Current version isn't what it used to be!

Rating: 1 out of 10

Incentivized

December 20, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Up through v7.1, a quick view of server (host and VM) performance and trends.

Cons

Through v7.1, it was everything we needed. Since then, the graphs that would harvest performance figures (network, memory, CPU, IOPS), would never display the same way, and would not refresh with the frequency to make the data digestible.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Chemicals company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience