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
