Virtualization Manager

Virtual machine monitoring and management designed to fix and optimize performance issues

Key Features

• Comprehensive virtualization performance management
• Powerful capacity planning tools
• VM sprawl management
• Predictive recommendations
• Manage across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud
• Visibility across the entire application stack

 

What tools do I need to manage my virtual environment?

All-in-one tool for comprehensive virtual environment management.

SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is a powerful virtual machine (VM) monitoring tool built to consolidate a variety of useful observations in one interface. VMAN can provide you with comprehensive visibility into the health and performance of VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors, whether they’re on-premises, hyperconverged, hybrid, or in the cloud. Easily manage the health of your entire environment—whether it’s server, virtual, or storage infrastructure—and troubleshoot specific, interrelated problems from a single-pane-of-glass view.

 

How do I cut through the noise and drill down to the most important virtualization monitoring metrics?

Track the right metrics.

Use VMAN to mix and match different metrics from your system and other sources with PerfStack™ to create a virtualization monitoring experience and prioritize the metrics you need. VMAN can also monitor Azure and AWS metrics from a single dashboard, which means no more toggling between different virtualization monitoring tools.

 

How can I visualize my VM interactions to get at-a-glance performance insight?

Map dependencies between virtual objects.

Use VMAN to get contextual dependency maps of an object or multiple objects, so you can see relationships between server and objects in your virtual environment. Gain insight into dependencies among clusters, virtual machines, virtual application groups, hosts, and storage.

 

Am I wasting CPU power?

Quickly optimize your virtual environment.

SolarWinds VMAN is designed to analyze the current state of environment performance, identify over- or under-allocated CPUs, and provide actionable recommendations to help optimize your virtual environment for optimal performance.

 

Where did all my storage go?

Quickly reclaim wasted virtual storage resources.

VMAN can monitor virtual hard disks and alert you to elements hogging storage resources such as zombie VMs, unneeded VM snapshots, and orphaned VMDK files so they can be quickly deleted to instantly free up usable disk space.

 

How does the way I configure my VMs affect performance?

Isolate VM performance issues caused by configuration changes.

Virtualization Manager is equipped with virtual machine configuration management capabilities to easily track and trend virtual machine configurations, including changes for hosts, guest operating systems, and virtualized applications. Use the Virtual DNA feature, designed to hold historical records, to compare VM configuration changes over time, making it easier to see how VM configurations have changed as a result of day-to-day operations, putting you in a better position to troubleshoot and proactively respond to issues.

 

How can I measure the costs associated with my virtual infrastructure?

SolarWinds VMAN provides easy-to-use reporting that calculates the computing costs of specific virtual workloads, so you can clearly communicate virtual infrastructure cost information for more effective budgeting.

 

Virtualization Manager is a part of the SolarWinds Orion® Platform.

Change the way you think about IT. SolarWinds delivers central visibility and control through a tightly integrated experience.

 

One vendor. One platform. One single pane of glass.

• Pinpoint whether the root cause of a slow application is the application, virtual server, host, or datastore when you use SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) and SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) alongside SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN).
• Take the basic VM performance metrics available in SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and SAM to the next level when you add VMAN for active and predictive performance recommendations.
• Gain visibility into your VMware®, Hyper-V®, and Nutanix® virtual environment performance in VMAN—in addition to the physical host monitoring available in SAM—to pinpoint and solve issues faster.