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."SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is a great tool that is easy to use...It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager are the non-Windows servers' monitoring and capacity planning."
"The solution has many valuable features. Virtualization is flexible and it has simple clustering. However, the most important feature is the ability to move between VMs. The vMotion features are very good."
"It's not a particular feature, really, however, I can say that the solution is just easy to maintain, and makes it easy to backup all those VMs. We can easily save our data and we can deploy VM machines very fast and create the delivery of the server in a pretty simple, dynamic way."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"It's extremely simple. Installing the ESXi is a piece of cake and then putting servers on there is really simple and having HA and building a cluster for our VM servers. It's very easy."
"Virtualization, VDI and application publishing are the most valuable features of VMware vSphere."
"The most valuable feature is being able to VMotion and migrate easily, moving machines around on the host. I know DRS will take care of a lot about that, but there's still some manual intervention here and there, so the flexibility of it has been really good."
"The feature that I find very valuable is the ability to move images of virtual machines from different workspaces to other workspaces between different installations."
"VMware vSphere has plenty of features."
"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."
"I would like to start to using NSX in the next release."
"In the next release, I would love to have Java as a service, platform as a service, and container as a service."
"Its performance is an issue in version 6.5, but with the inclusion of HTML files in vSphere version 6.7, the experience is seamless. In version 6.7, VMware has included the HTML file protocol for the web browser or web console, which has changed the console's response and improved the performance. We are using the trial version of vRealize Operations. It would be nice if some of those capabilities could be included in future versions of vSphere, not as a part of vRealize Operations, but in vSphere itself. It can provide some kind of forecast about your resource consumption based on the actual workload and modeling or testing scenarios. It can give you some advice or tips for the future growth of your infrastructure."
"The management could be simplified for base-level customers, but of course, it would be difficult to match all customer needs."
"The HTML 5 client has always lagged behind."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
"I would like to see VMware vSphere provide a centralized patch service on the VMware level, regardless of your operating systems."
"It lacks a snapshot feature."
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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 446 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 "Offers good performance and is useful for banking systems". 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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