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SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

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What is SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)?

SolarWinds® 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.

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Solarwinds VMAN 10 years later..

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Professional in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • 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

Other Software Used

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)

SolarWinds VMAN - A Great Solution for Virtual Infra Management and Monitoring

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Sharique KhanView profile
DevOps Engineering Manager in Information Technology at Varian, A Siemens Healthineers Company (5001-10,000 employees employees)

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.

Pros

  • Virtual Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Capacity Planning
  • Dashboards

Cons

  • Better Dashboards for cloud providers
  • Detailed documentation

Return on Investment

  • Improved Capacity utilization
  • Intuitive capacity planning

Alternatives Considered

New Relic

SolarWinds VMAN is a Solid Product

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Oscar Resendez
Sr Systems Administrator in Information Technology at CoG (501-1000 employees employees)

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.

Return on Investment

  • Knowing when VMs are having issues [in] real-time is one of the most valuable options [SolarWinds] VMAN provides.

Alternatives Considered

VMware vCenter Server

One of the best products

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Michael StarView profile
Senior Information Technology System Administrator in Information Technology at Palo Alto Networks (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • VM sprawl management
  • Manage across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud
  • Visibility across the entire application stack

Cons

  • Virtual environment reclamation and waste
  • Deleting snapshots and zombie files

Return on Investment

  • Positive, we were able to fix wasting resources and configure env to minimum

What else can be better than VMAN when mostly used Virtualization Vendor got covered

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Nikhil Kumar SharmaView profile
Associate Consultant in Engineering at HCL Technologies (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Hierarchal representation of the assets such as DC, Cluster, Host and VMs
  • Sprawling Features
  • Datastore Monitoring

Cons

  • Nuatanix Environment needs more parameters
  • Capacity Reporting and integration with Storage
  • Include more vendor support

Return on Investment

  • Helped in keeping an uptime of the resources and meeting the SLA for hardwares
  • Helped in creating capacity reports by simulating requirements
  • Exploring Nuatanix monitoring which would save a lot of money by not investing in a different tool

Alternatives Considered

Zabbix, LogicMonitor and Datadog

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