SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager provides capacity planning and performance management for virtual infrastructure, sitting within the company's self-hosted observability product line.

Self-hosted deployment is the characteristic that defines who buys it. Many organisations running substantial virtualisation estates cannot or will not send infrastructure telemetry to a vendor's cloud, whether for regulatory reasons, air-gapped environments or simple policy, and a monitoring product they can install and operate entirely themselves is the only viable option for them.

Capacity planning for virtualisation is a specific discipline rather than general monitoring. The question is not whether a host is healthy but whether the cluster has room for the next twenty virtual machines, where the constraint will bind first, and whether over-provisioned machines are consuming capacity that could be reclaimed. Reclaiming waste is usually the fastest available saving, since idle allocated resource costs the same as used resource.

The wider SolarWinds portfolio surrounds it with AI-powered observability, database performance management, incident response and IT service management, so a virtualisation team's alerts reach the same workflow as everything else. THWACK, the long-established SolarWinds user community, provides practitioner support alongside official channels. Pricing is published, starting from figures around 8 dollars.