SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and
affordable IT performance management software, today announced
enhancements to SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, which provides
troubleshooting and monitoring for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware
vSphere to manage and optimize virtual environments. SolarWinds
Virtualization Manager now includes management actions within the
product dashboard for immediate remediation when performance,
capacity or sprawl issues are identified. Additionally, IT pros can
configure alerts to automatically trigger a management action to
enhance optimal performance of virtual machines supporting mission
critical applications around the clock.
"In today's application-centric business world, the virtualized layer
of the IT infrastructure helps to facilitate the availability and
scalability that businesses need," said Nikki Jennings, group vice
president, products and markets, SolarWinds. "SolarWinds
Virtualization Manager now plays an even more crucial role in helping
businesses function at the speed of IT by enabling IT pros to take
action from within their performance, capacity and sprawl dashboards
to remediate problems in a few clicks, reduce hardware costs and
enhance the performance of their virtual resources to support the IT
infrastructure at all times."
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager now combines performance,
configuration and hypervisor-specific alerts with related management
actions in a single dashboard, enabling IT pros to remediate issues
in as few as two clicks instead of utilizing multiple products to
take action. Traditionally, any issues that triggered an alert would
have to be manually fixed, but now IT pros can automate remediation
with customized alert triggers to ensure the health of their virtual
environment even when they are not in the office.
What's New in SolarWinds Virtualization Manager
- Migration Management Actions - SolarWinds Virtualization Manager provides management actions to remediate host and storage contention, including:
- vMotion and Live Migration - migrating a virtual machine to a different host
- Storage vMotion and Storage Live Migration - migrating virtual machine disks to different datastores or cluster shared volumes
- Stop, start and pause a virtual machine
- Create and delete snapshots
- Sprawl Management Actions - Additional management actions are available in SolarWinds Virtualization Manager's sprawl view, allowing IT pros to act on information provided to reclaim and right-size resources quickly and effectively, including:
- Adding or removing CPU from a virtual machine
- Adding or removing RAM from a virtual machine
- Removing or deleting virtual machines to reclaim resources
- Deleting orphaned virtual machine disks to reclaim datastore storage
SolarWinds Provides Integrated Monitoring Across the IT Infrastructure
Applications and the supporting IT infrastructure are at the center of every business and SolarWinds provides top-to-bottom visibility into the application delivery chain. Integration with SolarWinds Orion technology backbone allows data collected by SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor, and SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor to be incorporated into the SolarWinds AppStack dashboard providing IT pros the end-to-end visibility they need to better troubleshoot application issues.
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager also works with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer in Orion to troubleshoot virtualized database performance problems including query and infrastructure performance.
Pricing and Availability SolarWinds Virtualization Manager pricing starts at $2,995 USD and includes the first year of maintenance.