Documentation forVirtualization Manager

Introduction to Virtualization Manager

Use SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) to monitor, analyze, and optimize your virtual environments and devices. It lets your review and study the metrics you collect. It also provides recommendations based on performance metrics, historical data, available resources, and storage capacity, allowing you to allocate your resources and prevent issues.

Download the PDF: VMAN Product Guide (formerly known as Administrator Guide)

Virtualization Manager runs on the self-hosted SolarWinds Platform. See the SolarWinds Platform Product Guide to learn about common features, such as adding devices, managing users, customizing your deployment, or viewing monitored devices on maps.

Monitor virtual environments

Virtualization Manager provides intensive metrics gathering and data breakdowns into dashboards and details pages so you can easily evaluate environments and react to issues. Use VMAN to manage your sprawling VM virtual and cloud environment through a single console with account management and direct VM tool capabilities. See Adding virtual systems in VMAN.

Optimize virtual resources

Your virtual machine environment can quickly grow in size and number of resources, becoming unmanageable or difficult to monitor over time. To help manage your environment, VMAN provides tools to easily evaluate current usage, locate possible allocation issues, and manage resources.

VMAN provides additional historical data and metric reporting through dashboards to locate and manage stale, zombie, and rogue VMs. With this continuously polled and collected data, you can better understand and troubleshoot:

  • Active usage of your VMs

  • Allocated resources to over and under utilized systems, requiring balancing

  • Stale, zombie, and rogue VMs costing your company in unused or overused resource

Capacity Planning

VMAN lets you create simulations and generate reports using historical data for trending usage and resource consumption over an extended period of simulated time. Set simulations against production, lab, and other virtual environments. See Run scenarios with Capacity Planning.

Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring

VMAN provides visibility into your Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure including cloud EC2 instances and attached EBS volumes.