We performed a comparison between SolarWinds Virtualization Manager and VMware vSphere based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about VMware, IBM, Nutanix and others in Virtualization Management Tools."The most valuable features of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager are the non-Windows servers' monitoring and capacity planning."
"SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is a great tool that is easy to use...It is a stable solution."
"I use customization to prevent any network and DNS collisions to the router."
"Our customers opt for virtualization because it's cheaper and better than non-virtualized solutions. VMware is probably the best on the market now."
"The solution is easy to use, has high performance, and good virtualization."
"I like stability and the organization of the different functions into the I#M feature which is also quite useful, quite stable."
"Its DR facility is good. Within a moment, data can be retrieve from another physical location over the Internet. The speed to recover data is good."
"We saved a lot of time and hardware with this solution. It also prevents fewer incidents."
"VMware Tanzu (container) is the most valuable addition because you get an efficient solution to manage the VM and container in a single pane of glass."
"Its scalability potential is good."
"The SolarWinds Virtualization Manager platform in general can have a better response time in the performance."
"The problem or issue with the product is related to its pricing."
"The solution's technical team is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"I met with the lead solutions architect for vSphere, and one of the things that I really kind of sat him down on was, "What's the deal between these Custom Attributes and these Tags? What are you trying to do with that?" He said, "So here's the deal. I know that they're halfway done and we have a vision of where they're all going, but we'll get it there." That that would be a great ability, to keep all that metadata about your virtual machines inside the solution and staying with the machines."
"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required."
"I would like to see a more automated upgrade, where you take the other products into account, so you can upgrade the entire VMware stack from a single interface."
"The biggest thing to improve is to have more self-service in the portals. I would like to receive more help through the web interface."
"VMware vSphere needs to increase the datastore volume."
"The HTML 5 client has always lagged behind."
"An area for improvement is that when comparing VMware to Nutanix, Nutanix has higher availability, like clustering for virtual machines. That is a good idea and VMware could profit from something like that for higher availability installations."
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SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is ranked 8th in Virtualization Management Tools with 6 reviews while VMware vSphere is ranked 2nd in Server Virtualization Software with 443 reviews. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is rated 7.4, while VMware vSphere is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager writes "A tool with an easy initial setup phase and high scalability that needs to improve its pricing and include reporting features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware vSphere writes "Allows for easy management of snapshots for virtual machines and good web console ". SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, Veeam ONE and IBM Turbonomic, whereas VMware vSphere is most compared with Hyper-V, Proxmox VE, VMware Workstation, Oracle VM and KVM.
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