TechValidate Research on SolarWinds System Management

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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Identifies Root Cause of Citrix Performance Issues

Our Citrix farm was not performing correctly, and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helped us identify not only the server that was causing the issue, but also the application responsible for the lack of performance on the entire farm. SolarWinds is very intuitive and provides a high level of granularity.

Cristhian Ocampo, Help Desk Manager, Standard Bank London Holdings

Find & Fix Active Directory Issues Faster with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

We were able to fix Microsoft Active Directory problems faster with notifications from the SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor. Immediate notifications and error detection helped us gain better control over monitoring our Active Directory environment.

Michael Samuels, Network Engineer, Leidos

SolarWinds Customer Win

Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation was able to delay a hardware or software purchase with SolarWinds VMAN.

SolarWinds Customer Reclaims Over 50% of Storage

Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation reclaimed 50-75% of storage due to sprawl reduction and better management with SolarWinds VMAN.

What were you able to solve with Storage Resource Monitor?

With SRM I was able to solve severe disk bottleneck issues. I was able to pinpoint which LUN was causing the issue.

IT/Systems Administrator, Medium Enterprise Construction Company

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor Customer Statistic

45% of surveyed IT organizations are able to identify and troubleshoot storage issues 60-80% faster or more with Storage Resource Monitor.

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds Virtualization Manager:

We use it to keep track of the entire virtual infrastructure, right down to the VM’s running on our hosts.

Would you recommend SolarWinds Virtualization Manager?

Yes, if you currently use Solarwinds SAM and NPM it is a worthwhile addition especially with storage manager.

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds Virtualization Manager:

Would you recommend SolarWinds Virtualization Manager?

I recommend SolarWinds Virtualization Manager for the following reason:

SolarWinds provides the same level of information and statistics as vRealize Ops Manager at a fraction of the price.

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds Virtualization Manager:

Would you recommend SolarWinds Virtualization Manager?

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses SolarWinds Virtualization Manager:

Used to Monitor Disk usage /CPU/Ram in my VMware environment. I have several critical servers that I need pro-active information on and VMAN provides this!

Would you recommend SolarWinds Virtualization Manager?

Yes, it’s a tool for the virtual environment that is indispensable because it monitors and alerts me before there are issues that effect performance.

I recommend SolarWinds Virtualization Manager for the following reason:

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is a fantastic tool to analyze your virtual environment and help tune over allocated/under allocated guests.

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor Customer Review

4.5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Storage Resource Monitor:

We have over 35 data centers with storage, and we use SRM to monitor and report on usage as well as outages.

Would you recommend Storage Resource Monitor?

Yes, SRM is easy to implement and does what it claims.

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor Customer Review

5/5 Stars

How our organization uses Storage Resource Monitor:

Our organization uses everything available in Storage Resource Monitor, the very fact that once we installed it was operational in such a short time ‘right out of the box,’ with alerts, configurations, etc. It gave us instant visibility in a single pane of glass to see all the storage that we have.

Would you recommend Storage Resource Monitor?

We highly recommend SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor – you ask why? The answer is very simple – ‘It is just a great product’ … for the following reasons:

Storage Resource Monitor permits you to do a dive deep into what is going on with storage – it has very deep visibility into the performance of our multi-vendor storage arrays and helps us with tracking how the application stack for storage issues affect application performance.

We no longer have to spend time with storage capacity planning – this tasks requires tremendous effort and time especially with our virtualized infrastructure. Creating spreadsheets and formulas to calculate this manually is a huge undertaking that is still error prone, with Storage Resource Monitor this is all done for you and so far we have found that the product is right on the money in giving us the best capacity planning solutions that we could ever come up with.

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor Customer Review

4/5 Stars

How our organization uses Storage Resource Monitor:

Primary driver was storage lineage that connects the applications to the disks and LUNs that are serving them. Being able to openly view storage performance metrics was huge for us.

Would you recommend Storage Resource Monitor?

Storage is a black box to most server and network admins. SRM sheds light on that box and uncovers issues for all three teams — storage, network and server — that might have otherwise gone unnoticed and uncorrelated without SRM.

Tai Scott, a IT Operations Analyst at Aptean, is very likely to recommend* SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor for the following reason:

“Data monitoring and reporting are great. SolarWinds® provides a ton of information as well as fully customizeable views and scopes.”

*Based on a response of 10 to the question “On a scale of 0-10, how likely would you be to recommend SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor?”

A small business computer software company reduced downtime by 60 – 80% since using SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor.

A small business computer software company saves > $100,000 on an annual basis on labor, software costs, maintenance costs, and admin costs using Server & Application Monitor® versus their previous solution.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Review

Western Psychological Services reduced downtime by 40 – 60% since using Server & Application Monitor.

We use Server & Application Monitor® to get visibility into the performance of our SQL server, Active Directory and Windows server environment. The best feature of this product is its ease of configuration and in depth SQL monitoring.

Rocco Cretacci, IT Director, Western Psychological Services

[Server & Application Monitor® provides] faster reaction time, more granular monitoring, and less manual intervention.

Rocco Cretacci, IT Director, Western Psychological Services

Western Psychological Services is able to identify and troubleshoot application performance issues 60 – 80% faster with SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor.

Rocco Cretacci, an IT Director at Western Psychological Services, is very likely to recommend* SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor for the following reason:

“I am very happy with the product and it’s ease of configuration.”

*Based on a response of 9 to the question “On a scale of 0-10, how likely would you be to recommend SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor?”

A medium enterprise industrial manufacturing company based in Saudi Arabia is able to identify and troubleshoot application performance issues 60 – 80% faster with Server & Application Monitor® over their previous solution, MRTG.




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