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SolarWinds Virtualization Manager Case Study

Infinite Campus

Introduction

This case study of Infinite Campus is based on a March 2016 survey of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select SolarWinds Virtualization Manager:

Purchased SolarWinds VMAN in order to solve the following virtual challenges:
- Unable to be proactive in performance optimization
- Capacity Planning

Use Case

The key feature and functionality of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager that the surveyed company uses:

Manages >1000 VMs with SolarWinds VMAN.

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager:

Purchased SolarWinds VMAN over other virtualization tools for the following reason(s):
- Integration with other SolarWinds products
- Alerting/Reporting
Saw value in 1-4 weeks after deploying SolarWinds VMAN.
Took the following amount of time to troubleshoot virtualization performance issues per month:
- Before deploying VMAN: 5 – 10 hours
- After deploying VMAN: < 2 hours
Experienced the following amount of downtime due to VM performance issues per month:
- Before deploying VMAN: < 2 hours
- After deploying VMAN: < 2 hours
Reclaimed storage, CPU and memory due to sprawl reduction and better management with SolarWinds VMAN:
- CPU: 25-50%
- Memory: 50-75%
- Storage: 25-50%
Was able to delay a hardware or software purchase with SolarWinds VMAN.

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Infinite Campus

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