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 most valuable features of the solution are the overall virtualization technology and the new features that allow you to move servers from one system to another."
"It's a very nice tool to be able to reduce your footprint, consolidate servers, and accumulate several servers in a high-density configuration."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the overall good ease of use and the good interface which makes it very easy to migrate from one bare metal to another. These are the two things which I like about it."
"Reduces downtime."
"VMware vSphere is user-friendly and simple."
"The most valuable features are stability and support."
"The solution is very scalable."
"We have seen an improvement in uptime. The whole hardware lifecycle process is easier."
"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 is slower than other tools."
"I recommend that VMware vSphere continue to release more features."
"There needs to be more integration overall. That would be quite helpful."
"It would be useful to have features like micro-segmentation, changing the mix as well as part of vSphere"
"I would like to see the configuration simplified."
"The solution should be more secure."
"There are some limitations with the solution regarding migrating."
"They need to stop pushing code out so fast."
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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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