TechValidate Research on SolarWinds System Management


Case Study: Educational Institution

Challenges

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

Use Case

  • Manages >1000 VMs with SolarWinds VMAN.

Results

  • Reduced downtime by >75% with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN).
  • Decreased time spent troubleshooting virtual performance issues by 25-50% 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 not able to delay a hardware or software purchase with SolarWinds VMAN.
  • Saw value in 1-4 weeks after deploying SolarWinds VMAN.
  • Purchased SolarWinds VMAN over other virtualization tools for the following reason(s):
    • Price
    • Integration with other SolarWinds products
    • Alerting/Reporting




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