SolarWinds Adds Remediation Actions for Performance Issues in Virtualized Environments

SOURCE: SolarWinds

Latest version of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager allows administrators to remediate issues in virtual environments directly from the management console, including VMware’s vMotion, Storage vMotion, live migration, and resource changes to decrease mean time to resolution and reclaim virtual resources to reduce hardware costs

AUSTIN, Texas – June 16, 2015 – SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT performance management software, today announced enhancements to SolarWinds^® Virtualization Manager, which provides troubleshooting and monitoring for Microsoft^® Hyper-V^® and VMware vSphere^® to manage and optimize virtual environments. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager now includes management actions within the product dashboard for immediate remediation when performance, capacity, or sprawl issues are identified. Additionally, IT pros can configure alerts to automatically trigger a management action to enhance optimal performance of virtual machines supporting mission critical applications around the clock.

“In today’s application-centric business world, the virtualized layer of the IT infrastructure helps to facilitate the availability and scalability that businesses need,” said Nikki Jennings, group vice president, products and markets, SolarWinds. “SolarWinds Virtualization Manager now plays an even more crucial role in helping businesses function at the speed of IT by enabling IT pros to take action from within their performance, capacity and sprawl dashboards to remediate problems in a few clicks, reduce hardware costs and enhance the performance of their virtual resources to support the IT infrastructure at all times.”

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager now combines performance, configuration and hypervisor-specific alerts with related management actions in a single dashboard, enabling IT pros to remediate issues in as few as two clicks instead of utilizing multiple products to take action. Traditionally, any issues that triggered an alert would have to be manually fixed, but now IT pros can automate remediation with customized alert triggers to ensure the health of their virtual environment even when they are not in the office.

What’s New in SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

• Migration Management Actions – SolarWinds Virtualization Manager provides management actions to remediate host and storage contention, including:

o   vMotion^® and Live Migration – migrating a virtual machine to a different host

o   Storage vMotion and Storage Live Migration – migrating virtual machine disks to different datastores or cluster shared volumes

o   Stop, start and pause a virtual machine

o   Create and delete snapshots

• Sprawl Management Actions – Additional management actions are available in SolarWinds Virtualization Manager’s sprawl view, allowing IT pros to act on information provided to reclaim and right-size resources quickly and effectively, including:

o   Adding or removing CPU from a virtual machine

o   Adding or removing RAM from a virtual machine

o   Removing or deleting virtual machines to reclaim resources

o   Deleting orphaned virtual machine disks to reclaim datastore storage

SolarWinds Provides Integrated Monitoring Across the IT Infrastructure

Applications and the supporting IT infrastructure are at the center of every business and SolarWinds provides top-to-bottom visibility into the application delivery chain. Integration with SolarWinds Orion^® technology backbone allows data collected by SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor,SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor, and SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor to be incorporated into the SolarWinds AppStack dashboard providing IT pros the end-to-end visibility they need to better troubleshoot application issues.

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager also works with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer in Orion to troubleshoot virtualized database performance problems including query and infrastructure performance.

Pricing and Availability

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager pricing starts at $2,995 USD* and includes the first year of maintenance. For more information, including a downloadable, free 30-day evaluation, visit the SolarWinds website or call 866.530.8100.

*Price as of June 9, 2015 for an 8-socket hypervisor environment. Pricing may vary based upon the jurisdiction and applicable currency.  Please contact a local SolarWinds sales representative to find pricing specific for your jurisdiction.

Additional Resources

• Press Release: Applications Are at the Heart of Every Business; Application Performance Is a Key IT Objective

About SolarWinds

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) provides powerful and affordable IT management software to customers worldwide from Fortune 500^® enterprises to small businesses. In all of our market areas, our approach is consistent. We focus exclusively on IT Pros and strive to eliminate the complexity that they have been forced to accept from traditional enterprise software vendors. SolarWinds delivers on this commitment with unexpected simplicity through products that are easy to find, buy, use and maintain while providing the power to address any IT management problem on any scale. Our solutions are rooted in our deep connection to our user base, which interacts in our thwack^®online community to solve problems, share technology and best practices, and directly participate in our product development process. Learn more today at http://www.solarwinds.com/.