Challenges
- Purchased SolarWinds VMAN in order to solve the following virtual challenges:
- Slow or degraded virtual application/server performance
- Unable to be proactive in performance optimization
- Capacity Planning
- Current virtualization management tool did not meet expectations
Use Case
- Optimized VM performance via right-sizing and recommendations with Virtualization Manager.
- Manages 250-500 VMs with SolarWinds VMAN.
Results
- Purchased SolarWinds VMAN over other virtualization tools for the following reasons:
- Integration with other SolarWinds products
- Alerting/Reporting
- Sprawl/Recommendations
- Saw value in >1 week after deploying SolarWinds VMAN.
- Took the following amount of time to troubleshoot virtualization performance issues per month:
- Before deploying VMAN: > 10 hours
- After deploying VMAN: < 2 hours
- Experienced the following amount of downtime due to VM performance issues per month:
- Before deploying VMAN: 2 – 5 hours
- After deploying VMAN: < 2 hours
- Reclaimed storage, CPU and memory due to sprawl reduction and better management with SolarWinds VMAN:
- CPU: 10-25%
- Nemory: 25-50%
- Storage: 10-25%
- Was able to delay a hardware or software purchase with SolarWinds VMAN.
