Specifications

Chapter 4: Key features
SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is a comprehensive virtual environment
management solution that helps you solve VM sprawl, identify performance
bottlenecks, plan for changing capacity requirements, and illustrate showback
and chargeback.Virtualization Manager is pre-populated with industry best
practice-based tools to enable you to more efficiently manage your virtual
environment.
Dashboard
The Dashboard area uses widgets to bring you information at a glance regarding
performance, capacity planning, VM sprawl, and more. You can customize both
dashboards and dashboard widgets to display what is most important to your
environment. The dashboard answers high-level questions such as the following:
l Which VMs are experiencing the most latency?
l Which clusters have memory ballooning issues?
l What is my average uptime?
l What is the estimated cost of running a set of VMs in the cloud (EC2)?
Dashboard information is frequently used as a starting point in investigating
environmental issues.
Explore
In the Explore area you can quickly view items in your environment, including
historical information collected by Virtualization Manager. You can view your
environment in the Map, the content stored in Virtualization Manager, historical
information for alerts and resources, and more.
Information in the Explore tab helps answer questions such as the following:
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