Solution Overview
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager
Optimize performance and fix vSphere and Hyper-V issues in minutes
At A Glance
SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager delivers integrated VMware® vSphere® and Microsoft® Hyper-V® recommendations, capacity planning, performance monitoring, VM sprawl control, VDI performance monitoring, configuration management, alert remediation, and chargeback automation—all in one affordable product that’s easy to download, deploy, and use.
Features Overview
- Predictive recommendations
- Capacity planning
- Active virtualization alerts
- Management dashboards
- Management actions
- VM sprawl control
Key Features
Predictive recommendations
VM recommendations for optimal VM size and placement.
Actionable Intelligence allows for single-click remediation of active and predicted VM performance and resource allocation.
Capacity planning
Virtual machine resource planning.
Predict CPU, memory, network, and storage needs for VMware, vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V. Run “what-if” modeling scenarios to predict resource usage.
Active virtualization alerts
Hypervisor specific active alerts.
Active virtualization alerts are categorized as critical, serious, warning, and informational. Clicking an alert will show it in greater detail.
Management dashboards
Monitoring for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V.
Monitor and fix performance issues unique to VMware, vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V. Performance, storage, and capacity planning dashboards allow you to fix issues quickly.
Management actions
Resolve issues from within Virtualization Manager with a single click.
Remediate issues without having to log in to a hypervisor. Performance storage and host migrations, add/remove CPU and memory, and manage snapshots, all from a single location.
VM sprawl control
Reclaim resources back into the virtual pool.
Power off idle VMs, and delete powered-off VMs, orphaned VMDK files and snapshots to reclaim resources.
Resources
| SolarWinds supports high levels of patient care in Lincolnshire SolarWinds® solutions are helping the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust to meet the 24/7 challenge of looking after thousands of patients at seven widely dispersed hospitals. |
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| Best-in-Breed Monitoring A large US-based health care organization looked to reduce their overall IT management costs while at the same time improving coverage by replacing IBM® Tivoli. |
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| NetSuite Selects SolarWinds for Global, End-to-End IT Infrastructure Management NetSuite uses SolarWinds to achieve global, end-to-end operational efficiency. Once SolarWinds products were implemented, NetSuite’s IT Team saw significant improvement in visibility, stability and understanding of their environment. |
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| How SolarWinds saves Immofori from staff downtime Sven Meinks believes that if the computer systems running financial services companies AG Services Deutschland and Service Advisors Deutschland were to crash, it would take only two hours before their combined staff of 130 were unable to work or serve their customers. Fortunately Sven has implemented SolarWinds solutions which provide critical pre-emptive warning of possible network problems, and as a result there have been no systems failures. |
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| SolarWinds helps realestate.com.au to meet 99.99 per cent uptime targets When IT professionals in the REA Group began to build a 90 per cent virtualised private cloud to accommodate realestate.com.au, Australia’s leading web site for residential property, they chose a range of SolarWinds networking and application monitoring tools to help them. It was a critical project as the site attracts more than 20.4 million Visits a month. But SolarWinds’ solutions helped the IT team to meet their 99.99 per cent uptime target and have also empowered engineers to make better informed decisions by delivering new levels of transparency and enabling better systems access. |
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| Virtualisation software gives Malaysia’s World Vision capacity planning control Before they implemented SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, World Vision International’s IT team in Malaysia lacked insight into the 250-plus virtual servers on their network. |
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| Elliot Health System As the largest provider of comprehensive healthcare services in Southern New Hampshire, Elliot Health System (EHS) prides itself on providing reliable, high quality care for those in need. The system’s flagship facility is Elliot Hospital, a 296-bed acute care facility located in Manchester (New Hampshire’s largest city). While considered a mid-level hospital in terms of size, Elliot Hospital is on the cutting edge when it comes to technology. The hospital will be 100 percent electronic by the end of 2010 and has virtualized more than 75 percent of its hosts – a significant achievement considering the remaining servers are primarily vendor-owned hardware that cannot be virtualized. |
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| Financial Services: Major U.S. Bank A $7.1 billion banking organization operating 72 branches in 42 communities across the mid-west, this financial services leader delivers a comprehensive range of banking products and services to individuals, businesses, municipalities and other entities. |
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| Major Professional Sports League In major league sports, the season may last for months, but for an infrastructure architect in the Office of the Commissioner, it’s a year-round obsession. His job is to manage the IT infrastructure of the Office the Commissioner, including optimizing the capacity and performance of its virtual environment. |
| Datasheet: SolarWinds Virtualization Manager At SolarWinds, we’ve improved the way that IT professionals around the world manage their networks, applications, servers and storage environments. Now, we are doing it again with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, formerly Hyper9 Virtualization Manager, our comprehensive all-in-one virtualization management software that delivers integrated capacity planning, VM sprawl control, performance monitoring, configuration management and chargeback automation—all in one affordable product that’s easy to download, deploy and use. |
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| SolarWinds Overview Brochure SolarWinds: IT Management That’s Powerful, Affordable, & Easy-to-Use! |
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| VPAT Datasheet: Virtualization Manager The SQL Server templates allow you to view the status and performance of your Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 database using performance counters as well as measure the performance of the SQL Server database. |
| Troubleshoot SharePoint issues faster with AppStack You get alerted on a slow website transaction on the SharePoint® portal. How can you find out what really caused the slow transaction and track down the issue to its root cause across various the layers of the IT stack? |
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| What Happen When VMs Go Bad? Rogue VMs, wasted licenses and VM sprawl are all major headaches of a virtual infrastructure that cost time and money if not managed properly. See how Virtualization Manager can help change the way you manage your VMs. |
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| What Today’s Admins Should Know About Virtualization Management What Today’s Admins Should Know About Virtualization Management. |
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| Don’t Get Caught in the Blender The Top 3 most encountered virtualization challenges: Performance Bottlenecks, Capacity Planning and Storage I/O. |
| 4 Essential Skills to Master Your Virtual Universe 4 Essential Skills to Master Your Virtual Universe. |
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| 6 Tips to Eliminate Latency in Your Virtual Environment With these best practices, learn how to fight latency and fine tune your environment for latency sensitive VMs. |
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| 2015 State of Virtualization & Storage Management Report In March of 2015, SolarWinds and ActualTech Media partnered to discover just how far virtualization has penetrated the data center and to identify the real challenges that face modern organizations. More importantly, we sought to understand the common characteristics of the modern data center in order to help end users best identify solutions that can ease the overall management and monitoring effort that must be expended. Do you struggle with capacity planning, storage performance or VM sprawl? You’re not alone! In this report, you’ll discover the most common virtualization challenges faced by your peers and more. |
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| The Hyper-convergence Effect: Do Virtualization Management Requirements Change? Hyper-convergence is the newest trend in virtualization, simplifying hardware deployment with its “everything in a box” approach, but how does this impact the management of a virtual infrastructure? Get the scoop from vExpert Eric Siebert. |
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| Capacity Planning in Virtual Environments Virtualization changes the way just about everything is done in the data center, including capacity planning. Traditional physical server environments are fairly straightforward to plan for capacity, as they typically are dedicated to a single application. |
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| SolarWinds in the Enterprise SolarWinds offers enterprise solutions that are the powerful, scalable, extensible and customizable. |
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| How do I Know My SQL & Virtual Environments are Ready for SSD? This whitepaper addresses the challenges companies and Storage Administrators face when it comes to deciding when SQL & Virtual storage is ready to switch to SSD. Learn how your organization can understand when your SQL & virtual environments are ready for SSD. |
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| Why Sysadmins Should Pay Attention to Virtualization & Storage Performance The application-stack takes you beyond diagnosing for issues in your application. Get end-to-end visibility on what’s happening in your virtualized application stack – application, VMs, host, clusters, and datastores. Learn how to seamlessly go between the app-stack layers to troubleshoot application issues in a virtualized environment, look at capacity planning, performance monitoring, VM sprawl control, configuration management, chargeback automation, and storage performance. |
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| Hyper-V® 2012 vs. vSphere™ 5.1: Understanding the Differences For years, there has been a feature battle between VMware vSphere® and Microsoft Hyper-V®. Historically, vSphere has won the feature battle, however with Hyper-V 2012 Microsoft has significantly closed the gap. Find out exactly how vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 2012 compare in this round of the hypervisor battle. In this paper, we will provide a comparison of the architectures and key features of both products. |
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| Understanding Successful VDI Implementation One of the major concerns looming over IT business strategy today is getting Virtual Desktop Implementation (VDI) successful. This whitepaper will help you understand the key elements of your VDI infrastructure. The key factors that impact the size, capacity, and performance of this infrastructure. How to monitor and manage this infrastructure to ensure reliability and performance. And finally, how to optimize storage for VDI. |
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| Putting the Reigns on VM Sprawl If you’re involved with virtualization, you have probably heard the term “VM Sprawl” at some point. Because it’s a general term, you may not know what it means exactly — is it even real? And does it exist in your environment? VM sprawl is a very real problem that can occur in any virtual environment, and if not dealt with, it can end up costing you money, time and resources. |
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| Storage I/O Bottlenecks in a Virtual Environment Having a storage I/O bottleneck is perhaps one of the biggest threats to performance in a virtual environment and also one of the more challenging issues to identify and resolve. Bottlenecks can happen as the result of many things, from simple configuration settings to improper storage architecture designs. |
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| Performance Management in a Virtual Environment Performance monitoring with virtualization is much more complicated than with traditional servers. The virtualization layer that is inserted between the physical hardware and the guest operating systems of the virtual machines changes the way you monitor performance. With virtualization, there is more to monitor, and interpreting the results can be difficult. Therefore, having a good monitoring solution is key so that you can be automatically alerted to problems and have important statistics highlighted for you. |
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| Top 5 Things You Need In A Virtualization Management Solution Virtual environments have unique challenges and requirements that are not present in traditional physical environments. |
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| Addressing Storage Performance Challenges in the Virtual Server Environment Server virtualization is causing performance problems for users, especially within the storage infrastructure. The complexity and abstraction with the way server virtualization deals with storage has created a new resource problem, storage IOPS, and rendered the existing management tools less effective. In lieu of simply adding more storage, we need to be smarter with the way we address storage performance challenges, which requires cross domain information and better tools to monitor and manage this dynamic environment. |
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| Virtualization, Network, and Infrastructure Management While virtualization has been a hot topic in the IT sphere for a number of years, we’re still only at the beginning of the journey when it comes to understanding how to manage these new infrastructures. Barb Goldworm (Focus) talks to Sanjay Castelino (SolarWinds) about virtualization, network and infrastructure management. |
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| eBook: 4 Skills to Take Flight in Your IT Career It’s time to take your IT career flight beyond the final frontiers of your virtual universe. Do it with the SOAR Framework:Secure – Govern, control data, app, stack, and user planes Optimize – Run more efficiently & effectively Automate – Scale ITReport – Show & tell to the leadership teamEach SOAR skill aids IT professionals in dealing with change management in the era of continuous service integration and continuous service delivery. SOAR skills are apropos not only for virtualized environments as they can be applied to any tech construct and tech domain. Time to shatter the shackles of silos! |
- Case Studies
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SolarWinds supports high levels of patient care in Lincolnshire
SolarWinds® solutions are helping the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust to meet the 24/7 challenge
of looking after thousands of patients at seven widely dispersed hospitals.Best-in-Breed Monitoring
A large US-based health care organization looked to reduce their overall IT management costs while at the same time improving coverage by replacing IBM® Tivoli.NetSuite Selects SolarWinds for Global, End-to-End IT Infrastructure Management
NetSuite uses SolarWinds to achieve global, end-to-end operational efficiency. Once SolarWinds products were implemented, NetSuite’s IT Team saw significant improvement in visibility, stability and understanding of their environment.How SolarWinds saves Immofori from staff downtime
Sven Meinks believes that if the computer systems running financial services companies AG Services Deutschland and Service Advisors Deutschland were to crash, it would take only two hours before their combined staff of 130 were unable to work or serve their customers. Fortunately Sven has implemented SolarWinds solutions which provide critical pre-emptive warning of possible network problems, and as a result there have been no systems failures.SolarWinds helps realestate.com.au to meet 99.99 per cent uptime targets
When IT professionals in the REA Group began to build a 90 per cent virtualised private cloud to accommodate realestate.com.au, Australia’s leading web site for residential property, they chose a range of SolarWinds networking and application monitoring tools to help them. It was a critical project as the site attracts more than 20.4 million Visits a month. But SolarWinds’ solutions helped the IT team to meet their 99.99 per cent uptime target and have also empowered engineers to make better informed decisions by delivering new levels of transparency and enabling better systems access.Virtualisation software gives Malaysia’s World Vision capacity planning control
Before they implemented SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, World Vision International’s IT team in Malaysia
lacked insight into the 250-plus virtual servers on their network.Elliot Health System
As the largest provider of comprehensive healthcare services in Southern New Hampshire, Elliot Health System (EHS) prides itself on providing reliable, high quality care for those in need. The system’s flagship facility is Elliot Hospital, a 296-bed acute care facility located in Manchester (New Hampshire’s largest city). While considered a mid-level hospital in terms of size, Elliot Hospital is on the cutting edge when it comes to technology. The hospital will be 100 percent electronic by the end of 2010 and has virtualized more than 75 percent of its hosts – a significant achievement considering the remaining servers are primarily vendor-owned hardware that cannot be virtualized.Financial Services: Major U.S. Bank
A $7.1 billion banking organization operating 72 branches in 42 communities across the mid-west, this financial services leader delivers a comprehensive range of banking products and services to individuals, businesses, municipalities and other entities.Major Professional Sports League
In major league sports, the season may last for months, but for an infrastructure architect in the Office of the Commissioner, it’s a year-round obsession. His job is to manage the IT infrastructure of the Office the Commissioner, including optimizing the capacity and performance of its virtual environment. - Data Sheets
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Datasheet: SolarWinds Virtualization Manager
At SolarWinds, we’ve improved the way that IT professionals around the world manage their networks, applications, servers and storage environments. Now, we are doing it again with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, formerly Hyper9 Virtualization Manager, our comprehensive all-in-one virtualization management software that delivers integrated capacity planning, VM sprawl control, performance monitoring, configuration management and chargeback automation—all in one affordable product that’s easy to download, deploy and use.SolarWinds Overview Brochure
SolarWinds: IT Management That’s Powerful, Affordable, & Easy-to-Use!VPAT Datasheet: Virtualization Manager
The SQL Server templates allow you to view the status and performance of your Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 database using performance counters as well as measure the performance of the SQL Server database. - Infographics
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Troubleshoot SharePoint issues faster with AppStack
You get alerted on a slow website transaction on the SharePoint® portal. How can you find out what really caused the slow transaction and track down the issue to its root cause across various the layers of the IT stack?What Happen When VMs Go Bad?
Rogue VMs, wasted licenses and VM sprawl are all major headaches of a virtual infrastructure that cost time and money if not managed properly. See how Virtualization Manager can help change the way you manage your VMs.What Today’s Admins Should Know About Virtualization Management
What Today’s Admins Should Know About Virtualization Management.Don’t Get Caught in the Blender
The Top 3 most encountered virtualization challenges: Performance Bottlenecks, Capacity Planning and Storage I/O. - White Papers
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4 Essential Skills to Master Your Virtual Universe
4 Essential Skills to Master Your Virtual Universe.6 Tips to Eliminate Latency in Your Virtual Environment
With these best practices, learn how to fight latency and fine tune your environment for latency sensitive VMs.2015 State of Virtualization & Storage Management Report
In March of 2015, SolarWinds and ActualTech Media partnered to discover just how far virtualization has penetrated the data center and to identify the real challenges that face modern organizations. More importantly, we sought to understand the common characteristics of the modern data center in order to help end users best identify solutions that can ease the overall management and monitoring effort that must be expended. Do you struggle with capacity planning, storage performance or VM sprawl? You’re not alone! In this report, you’ll discover the most common virtualization challenges faced by your peers and more.The Hyper-convergence Effect: Do Virtualization Management Requirements Change?
Hyper-convergence is the newest trend in virtualization, simplifying hardware deployment with its “everything in a box” approach, but how does this impact the management of a virtual infrastructure? Get the scoop from vExpert Eric Siebert.Capacity Planning in Virtual Environments
Virtualization changes the way just about everything is done in the data center, including capacity planning. Traditional physical server environments are fairly straightforward to plan for capacity, as they typically are dedicated to a single application.SolarWinds in the Enterprise
SolarWinds offers enterprise solutions that are the powerful, scalable, extensible and customizable.How do I Know My SQL & Virtual Environments are Ready for SSD?
This whitepaper addresses the challenges companies and Storage Administrators face when it comes to deciding when SQL & Virtual storage is ready to switch to SSD. Learn how your organization can understand when your SQL & virtual environments are ready for SSD.Why Sysadmins Should Pay Attention to Virtualization & Storage Performance
The application-stack takes you beyond diagnosing for issues in your application. Get end-to-end visibility on what’s happening in your virtualized application stack – application, VMs, host, clusters, and datastores. Learn how to seamlessly go between the app-stack layers to troubleshoot application issues in a virtualized environment, look at capacity planning, performance monitoring, VM sprawl control, configuration management, chargeback automation, and storage performance.Hyper-V® 2012 vs. vSphere™ 5.1: Understanding the Differences
For years, there has been a feature battle between VMware vSphere® and Microsoft Hyper-V®. Historically, vSphere has won the feature battle, however with Hyper-V 2012 Microsoft has significantly closed the gap. Find out exactly how vSphere 5.1 and Hyper-V 2012 compare in this round of the hypervisor battle. In this paper, we will provide a comparison of the architectures and key features of both products.Understanding Successful VDI Implementation
One of the major concerns looming over IT business strategy today is getting Virtual Desktop Implementation (VDI) successful. This whitepaper will help you understand the key elements of your VDI infrastructure. The key factors that impact the size, capacity, and performance of this infrastructure. How to monitor and manage this infrastructure to ensure reliability and performance. And finally, how to optimize storage for VDI.Putting the Reigns on VM Sprawl
If you’re involved with virtualization, you have probably heard the term “VM Sprawl” at some point. Because it’s a general term, you may not know what it means exactly — is it even real? And does it exist in your environment? VM sprawl is a very real problem that can occur in any virtual environment, and if not dealt with, it can end up costing you money, time and resources.Storage I/O Bottlenecks in a Virtual Environment
Having a storage I/O bottleneck is perhaps one of the biggest threats to performance in a virtual environment and also one of the more challenging issues to identify and resolve. Bottlenecks can happen as the result of many things, from simple configuration settings to improper storage architecture designs.Performance Management in a Virtual Environment
Performance monitoring with virtualization is much more complicated than with traditional servers. The virtualization layer that is inserted between the physical hardware and the guest operating systems of the virtual machines changes the way you monitor performance. With virtualization, there is more to monitor, and interpreting the results can be difficult. Therefore, having a good monitoring solution is key so that you can be automatically alerted to problems and have important statistics highlighted for you.Top 5 Things You Need In A Virtualization Management Solution
Virtual environments have unique challenges and requirements that are not present in traditional physical environments.Addressing Storage Performance Challenges in the Virtual Server Environment
Server virtualization is causing performance problems for users, especially within the storage infrastructure. The complexity and abstraction with the way server virtualization deals with storage has created a new resource problem, storage IOPS, and rendered the existing management tools less effective. In lieu of simply adding more storage, we need to be smarter with the way we address storage performance challenges, which requires cross domain information and better tools to monitor and manage this dynamic environment.Virtualization, Network, and Infrastructure Management
While virtualization has been a hot topic in the IT sphere for a number of years, we’re still only at the beginning of the journey when it comes to understanding how to manage these new infrastructures. Barb Goldworm (Focus) talks to Sanjay Castelino (SolarWinds) about virtualization, network and infrastructure management.eBook: 4 Skills to Take Flight in Your IT Career
It’s time to take your IT career flight beyond the final frontiers of your virtual universe. Do it with the SOAR Framework:Secure – Govern, control data, app, stack, and user planes Optimize – Run more efficiently & effectively Automate – Scale ITReport – Show & tell to the leadership teamEach SOAR skill aids IT professionals in dealing with change management in the era of continuous service integration and continuous service delivery. SOAR skills are apropos not only for virtualized environments as they can be applied to any tech construct and tech domain. Time to shatter the shackles of silos!