SolarWinds enhances virtualisation management capabilities for Hybrid IT

SolarWinds has announced that its Virtualisation management solution, SolarWinds Virtualisation Manager, offers IT Professionals and Virtualisation admins extended reach and visibility into virtualised infrastructures with new functionalities including baselines, role-based access control, and common alerting and reporting via integration with software that shares the SolarWinds technology “backbone.”

SolarWinds Virtualisation Manager delivers VMware® vSphere® and Microsoft® Hyper-V® capacity planning, performance monitoring, VM sprawl control, configuration management, and chargeback automation. The latest version of SolarWinds Virtualisation Manager provides deeper integration with products that share the SolarWinds IT monitoring and management backbone, including SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM), offering Virtualisation admins extended visibility to their applications and physical servers in a uniquely affordable and enterprise-scalable solution.

“Virtualisation management is not an island – it’s a necessary component to increasingly interdependent and complex, hybrid IT infrastructures. Having advanced monitoring and management technology where applications operate on both virtualised and physical servers is now as critical for Virtualisation and systems admins as for any IT Pro to maintain strong infrastructure performance and to keep a business running,” said Chris LaPoint, vice president of product management, SolarWinds. “SolarWinds Virtualisation Manager’s enhanced integration and industry-leading features give admins the in-depth insight they need to ensure the virtual environment is reliable and stable.”

What’s New in SolarWinds Virtualisation Manager:
· Baselines: Admins can manage and set thresholds for VMs, hosts and datastores based on historical and dynamic operational data and set intelligent alerts that allow them to quickly assess and determine deviations from normal operations
· Role-Based Access Control: Admins have the flexibility to restrict users so they can limit visibility for departmental or multi-tenant types of environments
· Integrated status monitoring, alerting and reporting: Admins can set alerts across application, server, Virtualisation, and networking solutions and improve monitoring and reporting of the IT infrastructure from end to end with the Web-based Report Writer

SolarWinds Virtualisation Manager combined with SolarWinds’ additional suite of integrated solutions make SolarWinds the market’s leading provider of software that delivers a single pane of glass beyond the virtualised infrastructure including predictive insight and visibility into the application, networks, servers and storage infrastructure.

With the enhanced integration, Virtualisation admins can employ SolarWinds Virtualisation Manager with SolarWinds SAM, for example, to get visibility between their virtual environments and over 150 applications out of the box across all major server and OS platforms without requiring additional installation of specific modules. That type of single add-on for comprehensive application visibility is not readily available in the Virtualisation management products offered by leading hypervisor vendors and gives Virtualisation admins the necessary insight into how that Virtualisation infrastructure impacts application performance and end-user experience.