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 enterprise direction is very complete and the data center provides almost everything you need."
"VMware vSphere is the best private-cloud solution."
"Good virtualization and ability to optimize and deliver an automated and orchestrated cloud platform on-prem."
"The speed of the solution is excellent."
"VMware vSphere has a lot of features that are valuable, such as multiple clusters, VM mobility, VDI, and virtual desktop."
"The built-in encryption of vSphere really helps us to secure our customers, especially customers in the medical field who need to be HIPAA compliant. Being able to encrypt the VM itself helps out a ton."
"Ease of support is one of the main features that we have with it. We're able to take Snapshots before doing updates to make it easy to roll back if something does happen to go wrong."
"The most valuable features for us are HA, DRS, and SDRS."
"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."
"Sometimes you can't find items and you need to log onto different physical servers to do technical tasks. I don't fully understand why this is the case."
"They can lower the price of its license."
"The way that vSphere manages the alerts on the data machine is not easy to configure."
"I do not find it to be simple and efficient to manage. The tools, the interface to manage it, are a pain. In the latest version, they moved us to web-only, the Web Client and it's terrible. It's slow. It crashes. It's annoying. I used the Web Client in the older version and was happy. I would go back to the regular thick client but I don't have that option anymore, so I am always fighting it."
"In terms of what could be improved, we do face some bugs when cloning the virtual machine - it fails sometimes."
"The solution could be cheaper and less expensive."
"The solution is stable. However, it could improve by being more secure."
"The solution is quite expensive."
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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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