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SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) vs. VMware vSphere

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    VMware vSphere

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AAn enterprise workload platform, vSphere is used to improve the performance for a data center. It is used to boost operational efficiency, supercharge workload performance, and accelerate innovation.

    $995

    per year

    Pricing
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)VMware vSphere
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $995.00
    per year
    Enterprise
    $3,995.00
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)VMware vSphere
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)VMware vSphere
    Considered Both Products
    SolarWinds
    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
    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
    Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    VMware vSphere with Operations Management is a tool that VMware offers and performs the same data collection and presentation, as SolarWinds Virtualization Manager. Where VMware vSphere with Operations Management lacks is in the reporting function. When we used Operations …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    SolarWinds is far superior to the base tools. Every manufacture has a management tool that often has really good benefits to using it, however with VMAN you get a single pane of glass for so much more than just Virtual Machines and or storage. You gain total control of your …
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    We looked at Foglight, VMturbo, and vCenter Operations Manager, all great products. We knew we needed a tool but we had a habit of purchasing tools and not using them so we wanted to keep the price tag within reason. The SolarWinds product fit the bill.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    We currently are a VMWare based environment, for the most part. Where VMAN helps is in the area of reporting, as vSphere itself doesn't provide very robust reporting.
    Incentivized
    VMware by Broadcom
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)VMware vSphere
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) and VMware vSphere
    Feature
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)
    -
    Ratings
    VMware vSphere
    7.2
    67 Ratings
    Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings7.062 Ratings
    Management console00 Ratings7.067 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings6.060 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings8.065 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings8.062 Ratings
    User Ratings
    SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN)VMware vSphere
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (66 ratings)
    7.0
    (70 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    7.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)