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."
"One of the things I like with the web client, versus the thick client, is that we're able to access all the vCenters that we manage. With the thick client, you have to log in to one vCenter at a time."
"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."
"Its stability and manageability are valuable."
"It provides a new environment in an expedient manner."
"Basic hypervisor functions with HA."
"The most valuable features of VMware vSphere are backup and recovery."
"It is absolutely simple and efficient to manage. We can bring in people who have never been exposed to vSphere or virtualized environments and they're still able to support it from a server standpoint. The training time as well as the adoption rate, for a junior technician or somebody coming right out of college, is very good."
"It is easy to manage the solution. It is scalable and very stable."
"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."
"It lacks a snapshot feature."
"It could be more composable. At present, a fluid pool is not available to us. It would be great to have the flexibility."
"One of the areas creating a crash is when you are cloning."
"Monitoring information could always be improved."
"The solution could benefit by expanding the CPUs and memory from different physical nodes."
"The solution could improve by having more integration."
"vSphere could perhaps be improved by more integration or better security."
"VMware vSphere could be more secure and well-known to everyone."
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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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