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Virtualization Manager

Virtualization Management Software

Monitor VMware, Nutanix, and Hyper-V problems with robust virtualization management

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Analyze storage I/O performance

Virtualization can present unique performance problems, and traditional management systems may not be able to address them. SolarWinds®VM management software, Virtualization Manager (VMAN), is designed to give you the tools you need to monitor performance and other metrics across your virtualized environments. VM management tools help streamline the thousands of counters and metrics within VMware, vSphere, Nutanix AHV, and Microsoft Hyper-V tools into one intuitive user interface. Proper monitoring and notification is key to keeping any enterprise virtualized environment optimally functioning. Built-in dashboards, reports, and alerting can allow you to see immediate ROI in your virtual management software, while customization options gives you the ability to tune the software to meet your unique virtualization management needs.

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Analyze storage I/O performance with VM management tools

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SolarWinds virtualization management software is built to monitor numerous storage vendors, models, and configurations across your virtualized environment as well as compile data into a single user interface. Sufficient storage space is a common root cause of a number of VM performance issues, and it’s essential to have the ability to locate the specific virtual machine or machines causing the problem. Virtualization Manager helps you improve VM performance problems by quickly deactivating a virtual device or reallocating resources to free up IOPs and latency for the additional virtual devices sharing a storage resource.
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Use VM management software for capacity planning

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Virtualization capacity planning is one of the most requested and useful features offered by Virtualization Manager—especially for organizations anticipating growth or expansion. Capacity planning allows you to use data and trends pulled from your own virtualized environment to project future resource growth and needs. The capacity planning wizard feature can also run modeling scenarios to help predict what could happen in the event of hardware failure or if more hardware or virtual devices are added to the environment.
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Unlock Full-Stack Visibility for Your Virtual Environment

The extensive functionality of VMAN is a core capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, providing unified insights across your entire IT landscape. Our goal is to bring together all relevant metrics into a centralized view, eliminating troubleshooting silos and the constant need for tool switching.

The advanced features of VMAN—such as automated VM recommendations, capacity planning, and sprawl control—are fully integrated into SolarWinds Observability, which seamlessly connects virtualization data with data from the rest of your IT infrastructure. This provides true end-to-end troubleshooting for faster root-cause analysis and issue remediation. 

Determine whether a spike in VM latency is due to a storage bottleneck, sudden surge in workloads, or network problem—all within seconds.

Gather and connect data from your physical server hardware, virtual infrastructure (such as VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV), applications, and network components to reveal the complete performance story. 

Whether you operate a dedicated on-premises data center or manage a complex hybrid cloud setup, SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted provides the tools and insights you need to maintain High Availability (HA) and optimal performance.

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Get More on VM Management Tools

Do you find yourself asking…

  • What is virtualization management?
  • How does virtualization management work?
  • Why is virtualization management important?
  • What do VM management tools do?
  • How does SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted broaden the capabilities of VMAN?

Virtualization management refers to the processes and practices involved in managing the operations of a virtual environment. These operations are typically controlled through software and applications acting as an interface between virtual machines or environments and the physical hardware they run on.

Some of the basic processes of virtualization management include creating, updating, or deleting virtual machines, networks, or infrastructures, along with tracking their metrics and ensuring the health of systems. In large networks, it’s critical for admins to be able to perform many of these functions from a centralized console to avoid having to check the health of each individual virtual environment.

The processes of creating and managing virtual devices and environments can be extensive and complicated, so many virtualization management solutions are built to present these options and features in straightforward user dashboards with the ability to easily create virtual machines, run reports, and apply protocols.

Effective virtualization management works by optimizing an organization’s hardware to create sufficient computing and networking environments for end users to perform their required tasks. Using a system to help simplify and consolidate a wide variety of management tools into one application, administrators can more easily increase this efficiency in ways that are both cost effective and ensure proper allocation of resources. 

Virtualization management is important to maintain visibility into the health of your virtual environments to ensure they’re running optimally and when controlling common issues like VM sprawl.

The process of virtualizing desktops and servers offers many benefits for IT departments and the organizations they support. Virtualization can help businesses save on costs by allowing several separate systems to run on one set of underlying hardware. Virtualization also gives IT departments the ability to launch new servers and workstations quickly. 

Virtualization management is important because it helps streamline and simplify the management process for administrators, including features to help with resource allocation and data analysis. Since virtualization allows you to create new virtual machines in minutes, this can become taxing to the physical hardware keeping all the virtual devices running. Virtual devices are also limited by the technical specifications of the physical device running them. Using VM management tools to monitor the health of your physical devices for indications that they’re reaching the end of their life cycles can help avoid masses of idle or out-of-use virtual devices eating up your bandwidth and computing usage.

Virtual machine and virtual server management tools allow you to easily manage virtual environments by providing a centralized application for quick monitoring, control, and reporting. VM management tools monitor both the health and status of virtual machines and resources and will typically represent these metrics in graph form for easy comparison between devices across the same virtual environment. This allows you to quickly access the information necessary to make informed decisions. 

VM management tools provide performance monitoring and management functionality to ensure each virtual device or environment is working at capacity to deliver the services expected of it without being overtaxed. Virtualization monitoring tools can also be used to test and establish connectivity between virtualized devices across the environment.

Virtualization management software can also provide support on the infrastructure level through the automation of certain processes, such as auto-provisioning, which allows for the reallocation of computational resources to meet network needs without manual intervention or assistance. VM management tools like SolarWinds Virtualization Manager work with these automated processes to help make the job of IT professionals easier by reducing busywork and expediting the management and monitoring methods available to administrators to better control, adjust, and troubleshoot virtual devices.

As part of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, VMAN has evolved from a standalone virtualization tool into a key capability of a comprehensive full-stack solution.

  • End-to-End Visibility and AIOps: The detailed real-time hypervisor metrics of VMAN (such as ESX and CPU performance) are combined with data from applications, networks, and storage within a single centralized management interface; this full-stack perspective allows for immediate connections between performance issues in your applications or operating systems and the underlying virtualization infrastructure on Windows Server or Linux, leveraging AIOps to interpret this data and offering smarter, proactive recommendations that greatly enhance cost efficiency and system uptime
  • Seamless Hybrid Cloud and On-Premises Management: VMAN expands monitoring to include cloud platforms such as Azure, integrating them with your on-premises virtualization for unified resource management and simplified scalability across multiple providers—essential for today’s cloud computing environments
  • Predictive Capacity Planning and HA Strategies: The built-in capacity planning tool uses correlated data to anticipate load balancing and live migration needs, and the platform also enhances disaster recovery strategies by combining the insights VMAN offers with features such as replication and HA
  • Cost Efficiency and Resource Recovery: SolarWinds Observability provides targeted resource utilization and usage analytics for your IT environments, enabling you to recover physical resources from idle virtual desktop deployments, which is crucial for cost reduction

By combining the functionality of VMAN with the broader capabilities of the SolarWinds Platform, your IT teams can troubleshoot more quickly, collaborate more effectively, and drive business outcomes more efficiently.

  • Virtualization management refers to the processes and practices involved in managing the operations of a virtual environment. These operations are typically controlled through software and applications acting as an interface between virtual machines or environments and the physical hardware they run on.

    Some of the basic processes of virtualization management include creating, updating, or deleting virtual machines, networks, or infrastructures, along with tracking their metrics and ensuring the health of systems. In large networks, it’s critical for admins to be able to perform many of these functions from a centralized console to avoid having to check the health of each individual virtual environment.

  • The processes of creating and managing virtual devices and environments can be extensive and complicated, so many virtualization management solutions are built to present these options and features in straightforward user dashboards with the ability to easily create virtual machines, run reports, and apply protocols.

    Effective virtualization management works by optimizing an organization’s hardware to create sufficient computing and networking environments for end users to perform their required tasks. Using a system to help simplify and consolidate a wide variety of management tools into one application, administrators can more easily increase this efficiency in ways that are both cost effective and ensure proper allocation of resources. 

  • Virtualization management is important to maintain visibility into the health of your virtual environments to ensure they’re running optimally and when controlling common issues like VM sprawl.

    The process of virtualizing desktops and servers offers many benefits for IT departments and the organizations they support. Virtualization can help businesses save on costs by allowing several separate systems to run on one set of underlying hardware. Virtualization also gives IT departments the ability to launch new servers and workstations quickly. 

    Virtualization management is important because it helps streamline and simplify the management process for administrators, including features to help with resource allocation and data analysis. Since virtualization allows you to create new virtual machines in minutes, this can become taxing to the physical hardware keeping all the virtual devices running. Virtual devices are also limited by the technical specifications of the physical device running them. Using VM management tools to monitor the health of your physical devices for indications that they’re reaching the end of their life cycles can help avoid masses of idle or out-of-use virtual devices eating up your bandwidth and computing usage.

  • Virtual machine and virtual server management tools allow you to easily manage virtual environments by providing a centralized application for quick monitoring, control, and reporting. VM management tools monitor both the health and status of virtual machines and resources and will typically represent these metrics in graph form for easy comparison between devices across the same virtual environment. This allows you to quickly access the information necessary to make informed decisions. 

    VM management tools provide performance monitoring and management functionality to ensure each virtual device or environment is working at capacity to deliver the services expected of it without being overtaxed. Virtualization monitoring tools can also be used to test and establish connectivity between virtualized devices across the environment.

    Virtualization management software can also provide support on the infrastructure level through the automation of certain processes, such as auto-provisioning, which allows for the reallocation of computational resources to meet network needs without manual intervention or assistance. VM management tools like SolarWinds Virtualization Manager work with these automated processes to help make the job of IT professionals easier by reducing busywork and expediting the management and monitoring methods available to administrators to better control, adjust, and troubleshoot virtual devices.

  • As part of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, VMAN has evolved from a standalone virtualization tool into a key capability of a comprehensive full-stack solution.

    • End-to-End Visibility and AIOps: The detailed real-time hypervisor metrics of VMAN (such as ESX and CPU performance) are combined with data from applications, networks, and storage within a single centralized management interface; this full-stack perspective allows for immediate connections between performance issues in your applications or operating systems and the underlying virtualization infrastructure on Windows Server or Linux, leveraging AIOps to interpret this data and offering smarter, proactive recommendations that greatly enhance cost efficiency and system uptime
    • Seamless Hybrid Cloud and On-Premises Management: VMAN expands monitoring to include cloud platforms such as Azure, integrating them with your on-premises virtualization for unified resource management and simplified scalability across multiple providers—essential for today’s cloud computing environments
    • Predictive Capacity Planning and HA Strategies: The built-in capacity planning tool uses correlated data to anticipate load balancing and live migration needs, and the platform also enhances disaster recovery strategies by combining the insights VMAN offers with features such as replication and HA
    • Cost Efficiency and Resource Recovery: SolarWinds Observability provides targeted resource utilization and usage analytics for your IT environments, enabling you to recover physical resources from idle virtual desktop deployments, which is crucial for cost reduction

    By combining the functionality of VMAN with the broader capabilities of the SolarWinds Platform, your IT teams can troubleshoot more quickly, collaborate more effectively, and drive business outcomes more efficiently.

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