Original Research on SolarWinds System Management

Decrease Troubleshooting Time by an Average of 65%

How long did it take to troubleshoot virtualization performance issues per month before/after VMAN?

0 Hours Less than 2 Hours 2 - 5 Hours 5 - 10 Hours More than 10 hours

Before VMAN
After VMAN

40-60% Faster Application Troubleshooting After Replacing HP SiteScope with SolarWinds

We purchased SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to replace HP SiteScope.

After deploying SolarWinds, identifying and troubleshooting application issues has become 40-60% faster.

Case Study: S&P 500 Industrial Manufacturing Company Replaces IBM Tivoli with SolarWinds

“We had a user group complaining about starting an application and the slow performance. Using SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, I found a highly executed database query that averaged 113,000 ms, which I was able to tune down to 47 ms greatly improving database and application performance.”

“I like having a central focus for where to go to monitor my databases and applications, and SolarWinds delivers just that.”

Challenges

IT administration and management challenges that prompted you to purchase SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor:
- Lack of visibility into application health and availability
- Need for greater insight into performance metrics for troubleshooting
- Lack of centralized monitoring across multiple sites in the network
Used IBM Tivoli before replacing it with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor.

Use Case

Purchased Server & Application Monitor to have a single, unified solution to monitor all environments.
Applications primarily monitored using Server & Application Monitor:
- Microsoft Exchange Server
- Windows
- IIS
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- AIX

Results

Able to identify and troubleshoot application issues 40 – 60% faster after deploying Server & Application Monitor.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Detects SharePoint Problem Caused Due to IIS

SharePoint web portal wouldn’t launch. Checking on Server & Application Monitor led me to identifying where the issue was and that was the IIS server. I restarted IIS, and the SharePoint application was able to run.

After deploying SolarWinds, identifying and troubleshooting application issues has become over 100% faster.

— Hezekiah Omulo, IT/Systems Administrator, Kemri - Wellcome Trust Research Programme

Case Study: Toyota Financial Services (Uk) Ltd

Challenges

Purchased SolarWinds VMAN in order to solve the following virtual challenges:
- Application/Server downtime
- Unable to be proactive in performance optimization
- Capacity Planning
- Currently don’t have a monitoring tool

Use Case

Manages 101-250 VMs with SolarWinds VMAN.

Results

Reduced downtime by 10-25% with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN).
Decreased time spent troubleshooting virtual performance issues by 50-75% with SolarWinds VMAN.
Increased VM team productivity by 25-50% since deploying SolarWinds VMAN.
Reclaimed storage, CPU and memory due to sprawl reduction and better management with SolarWinds VMAN:
- CPU: 10-25%
- memory: 10-25%
- storage: 10-25%
Was able to delay a hardware or software purchase with SolarWinds VMAN.
Saw value in 3-6 months after deploying SolarWinds VMAN.
Purchased SolarWinds VMAN over other virtualization tools for the following reason(s):
- Price
- Integration with other SolarWinds products
- Alerting/Reporting
- Did not shop for other tools

Reclaim CPU, memory, and storage

Since deploying VMAN, please estimate the % of used CPU, memory, and storage you were able to reclaim due to sprawl reduction and better management?

>75% 50-75% 25-50% 10-25% <10%

CPU
Memory
Storage

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Decrease Troubleshooting Time by an Average of 65%

40-60% Faster Application Troubleshooting After Replacing HP SiteScope with SolarWinds

Case Study: S&P 500 Industrial Manufacturing Company Replaces IBM Tivoli with SolarWinds

Challenges

Use Case

Results

About SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Detects SharePoint Problem Caused Due to IIS

Case Study: Toyota Financial Services (Uk) Ltd

Challenges

Use Case

Results

About SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

Reclaim CPU, memory, and storage

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