SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager
Virtualization Manager
Turn virtualization insight into faster action.
What is a virtualization manager?
A virtualization manager monitors VM health, performance, and resource use across hypervisors. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager provides real-time visibility to detect bottlenecks, manage sprawl, and plan capacity.
Explore Virtualization Manager features
Resolve VM performance issues faster with unified monitoring
Get real-time visibility into CPU, memory, and I/O usage across VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV so your team can spot bottlenecks early, balance workloads, and act before issues escalate.
VM Performance
Monitor VM health and performance in real time
Track CPU, memory, and I/O usage across hybrid environments
Monitor CPU, memory, and I/O usage to prevent bottlenecks and address performance issues proactively across data center, on-premises, and cloud environments. Track VM health and resource use, monitor VMware vital statistics, and get the most out of your virtual environment with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager.
- Real-time CPU, memory, and I/O monitoring across VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV with Perfstack
- Contextual dependency maps for VMs, hosts, and datastores
- Customizable alerts and dashboards for virtualization metrics
Capacity Planning
Forecast and allocate resources before demand peaks
Predict future VM and storage needs with historical data
Stay ahead of resource demands with capacity planning and forecasting. Use historical trends to predict future resource needs, prevent over-provisioning, and avoid performance issues. Plan upgrades, scale efficiently, and prevent downtime with insights that optimize resource allocation across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Historical trend analysis for VM and storage capacity forecasting
- Recommendations for VM right-sizing and performance, capacity, and storage optimization
- Capacity alerts to prevent resource contention before it causes downtime
Sprawl Control
Reduce waste by controlling VM sprawl
Identify and reclaim unused or underutilized VMs
Identify unused and underutilized virtual machines to reclaim resources, reduce waste, and simplify management. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager automatically detects idle and over-provisioned VMs so your team can right-size environments, minimize hardware costs, and control VM sprawl before it drains your infrastructure budget.
- Automatic detection of idle, orphaned, and over-provisioned VMs
- Resource reclamation recommendations to right-size workloads
- Orphaned VMDK identification and cleanup
Recommendations
Get data-driven recommendations to fix active issues
Optimize VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV environments with predictive analysis
Identify and resolve active performance issues, prevent future problems with predictive recommendations, and balance VM workloads efficiently. Schedule fixes during maintenance windows for minimal disruption.
- Predictive and active performance recommendations with scheduled remediation
- Optimal VM placement and workload balancing guidance
- Multi-step fix recommendations to achieve optimal performance state
Chargeback
Track and report resource usage for chargeback
Simplify billing with detailed usage reports
Make budgeting and cost allocation easy with chargeback reporting. Automatically generate detailed reports on resource usage so you can allocate costs to different teams or departments based on their actual virtual machine consumption, helping ensure accurate budgeting and cost transparency across your virtualization environment.
- Automated resource usage reporting by team or department
- Cost allocation based on actual VM consumption
- Customizable chargeback reports for accurate budgeting
Get in-depth insights. Download the Virtualization Manager datasheet today.
Monitor the hypervisors you already run
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager supports VMware vCenter, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV out of the box, so you can start monitoring your virtual infrastructure without custom scripting.
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Virtualization Manager FAQ
Is virt-manager outdated?
Is virt-manager outdated?
Virt-manager is a lightweight desktop tool for managing VMs on Linux. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is an enterprise-grade virtualization monitoring software built for IT teams managing VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV environments at scale. Unlike virt-manager, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager provides real-time performance monitoring, capacity forecasting, sprawl control, and chargeback reporting across multiple hypervisor platforms from a single console.
Can I run a VM for free?
Can I run a VM for free?
Yes. Most hypervisors, including VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV, allow you to create and run virtual machines without additional licensing beyond the hypervisor itself. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager complements these platforms by providing the monitoring, capacity planning, and sprawl control layer that hypervisors alone do not include. You can download a fully functional 30-day free trial of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager to evaluate it in your environment.
Is it better to have virtualization on or off?
Is it better to have virtualization on or off?
Server virtualization is essential for modern IT efficiency. It allows you to consolidate servers, reduce hardware costs, and scale resources dynamically. Running virtualization without dedicated monitoring software, however, leaves you blind to performance bottlenecks, sprawl, and capacity issues. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager gives you the visibility to make virtualization work reliably.
Is a VPS just a VM?
Is a VPS just a VM?
A VPS (Virtual Private Server) is a VM hosted by a third-party provider. The provider manages the hypervisor and underlying hardware. A VM you run yourself lives on your own hypervisor and hardware. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager monitors both scenarios, giving you visibility into on-premises VMs and cloud-hosted instances from a single console.
What is a virtual machine manager?
What is a virtual machine manager?
A virtual machine manager is software that monitors and manages virtual machines across one or more hypervisor platforms. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is a virtual machine manager that provides real-time performance monitoring, capacity forecasting, sprawl control, and chargeback reporting for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV environments from a single console.
What is SolarWinds Virtualization Manager?
What is SolarWinds Virtualization Manager?
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is a vendor-agnostic virtualization monitoring tool that provides alerting and performance recommendations for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV environments. Built-in management actions help you remediate virtualization issues without needing to launch another tool. It is available as a standalone Orion module or as part of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.
Tausendfach bewährt
SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager (VMAN) features are also available as a standalone Orion® module. Contact Sales for a custom quote.