SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)	Score10 out of 10	N/A	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.	N/A

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	SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Considered Both Products	SolarWinds Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Oscar Resendez Sr Systems Administrator in Information Technology at CoG (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) We selected [SolarWinds] VMAN because we already had [SolarWinds] products and it was simple enough to get it added in. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) In the past we had used VMware's VRealize yet this integration into our Orion platform makes it easier to work with plus there is price savings when we moved to VMAN. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) 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) … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) SolarWinds VMAN provides comprehensive monitoring and performance metrics for your VM environment. Provides Recommendations for optimal VM performance. SolarWinds VMAN integrates with the Orion Platform and provides a single pane of glass for monitoring your entire VM … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Logic Monitoring Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) We chose SolarWinds for the price point, the ability for Single Pain of Glass monitoring for Dashboards, and having a single vendor to support all our monitoring needs. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Star Senior Information Technology System Administrator in Information Technology at Palo Alto Networks (Computer & Network Security, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) SAM and NPM Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Honestly we didn't check in depth other vendors, because we use the entire Solarwinds Eco-system. So first of all, we want to keep one unique tool to handle everything. In addition the migration to another product would be super difficult or nearly impossible. Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant in Engineering at HCL Technologies (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Datadog and Log Monitor are doing great in bringing in new technologies for monitoring, however SolarWinds has still got edges since we are using it [for] many years. By using [it], we know that their product development team was always on top of new technologies monitoring. … Incentivized Helpful? Kewyn Medina Supervisor IT Operations / Cloud in Information Technology at Laureate International Universities (Education Management, 10,001+ employees) Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Good performance of the application Visually well designed Really useful topology creation in comparison to most competitors Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Better performance monitoring. Was able to see bottlenecks in our network that we were able to address. Ability to set thresholds and critical warning alerts to match our specific business needs and parameters. The predefined reports helped us with metrics to ensure the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) If you used these two products, you know the difference. It's too vast to explain here. PRTG does have its place in a network, but SolarWinds is the high bar in this space. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Virtualization Manager does a much better job of bringing all of the relevant system information together in an easy to view and use interface. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Veeam ONE is a product to compare against SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. Veeam ONE is a solid product, however, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager has multiple product tie-ins for a bigger more complete picture of the total environment it is deployed in. It is hard to put a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) We have trialed almost all of the SolarWinds family of products if they were seen to have a potential positive effect on our environment and ability to find/resolve problems. We are currently using all of the products outlined previously as it gives us an excellent top down … Incentivized Helpful? Dinesh Rana IT network operation manager in Information Technology at Kavo Kerr (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 10,001+ employees) Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) They give more customization options. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) It has the capability of all monitoring products individually and it is easy to work within the VMware monitoring tool. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) We have had so much success with Solarwinds that we did not look at any other options. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) In our experience, the market for exemplary tools for managing a VMware environment is pretty small. Either go with the VMware tools, which may or may not be part of your enterprise licensing, or use a 3rd-party platform. If you have a multi-vendor environment (say VMware + … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) None. Incentivized Helpful? Timothy Sawah IT Project Manager in Information Technology at The George Washington University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) The Cisco solution is more expensive and complex to install and configure The VMware Horizon does not detect and manage the non VMware VMs such as Microsoft Hyper-V In case the environment is purely VMware, then VMware Horizon provides more possibilities of managing the VMs and … Incentivized Helpful? Swathi Aljala QA Analyst in Information Technology at ZEN BIO TECH PRIVATE LIMITED (Mining & Metals, 51-200 employees) Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Seamless incorporation into the Orion framework. We needed a tool to tell us what was going on with our vSphere environment beyond what vCenter was telling us. There are just 2 of us that manage 40 ESXi hosts on1000 virtual machines and we needed some additional insight. I have … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (66 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.6 (7 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (7 ratings)
Availability	8.2 (1 ratings)
Performance	6.4 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (6 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (3 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.2 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	10.0 (2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	10.0 (2 ratings)