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About 7 years ago

Commented on It's agile and provides us with the ability to make changes within the environment seamlessly.

As the reviewer indicates, there is so much valuable information available regarding VMware, including command line operations that sometimes make VM management simpler and faster. For example, VM snapshot review. If you're willing to put a little time into finding and…

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Facilitated our disaster recovery by easy replication of the VM images.

Nice review! Curious about your VM replication - is your second site a DR facility such as SunGard? Do you utilize VMware's SRM? Thanks!

Over 7 years ago

Commented on Provides data quality services tools and In-Memory OLTP tables.

Excellent review - concise and easy to read. Your thoughts on "proper, prior training" and advice on using official Microsoft training are right on. Too often in the medium, non-technical company I work for, the technical training is skipped in favor of "Google" and all of…

Over 8 years ago

Contributed a review of IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server: The capability to baseline the environment and define thresholds for alerting is definitely the most valuable feature in my opinion.

Over 8 years ago

Commented on It provides the option to view performance with advanced real-time monitoring.

VMware IS a very solid product and I agree with Chris that the complexity is defined by the current environment being brought to it. Although it increased the cost, we hired a 3rd party vendor to assist with the initial setup so we we left any questions regarding the design…

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on The ease of administration and flexibility are the most valuable features for us.

I would agree with Chris about checking into the offerings available with 5.5 and 6.0. I would add that support for 4.1 ended May 21, 2014 and end of technical guidance is coming up May 21, 2016.

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on IT Central Station Elite Squad

I'm a "home grown" (OJT and tech courses) Senior Server Admin responsible for Virtualization, SQL Operations and Imaging. The evolution of all 3 over the past 5-10 years has been a journey for sure. VMware, Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2012, Windows 2008/2012 and Vertafore…

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on The High Availability, and flexibility are what we've found to be important for us It's made us a lot more agile.

Thanks for the helpful, well written review! Uptime is key in our environment so the complexity is well worth it. We used a vendor for initial setup to get our feet wet with virtualization, but have since updated the original environment more to our liking. NIC trunking…

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on Once we moved everything over to the virtualization platform, we have the benefit of newer and faster disk arrays directly attached to the VMware system.

Being a small shop we were a little taken aback at the recommendation to buy more hardware than we thought we needed. HA and DRS are our 2 favorite features so we are very happy with the solution that we purchased, especially since our environment has expanded quite…

Almost 9 years ago

Commented on Adhoc reporting takes time to get used to, but our monitoring and management is much more efficient.

We like this product alot. Virtualization Manager provides decent storage information relating to virtual machines but basic Network connection information. We use Network Performance Monitor which provides more detailed Network information.

About 9 years ago

Commented on Deploying desktops without needing access to the hardware is very helpful, but different client versions can be problematic.

We just installed the infrastructure for VDI and our Desktop team is working on the virtual desktop builds. It's good to know we follow in positive footsteps!

Over 9 years ago

Commented on SolarWinds products scale well although it may require purchasing additional licensing

One of the main reasons we purchased Virtualization Manager was due to already owning NPM and SAM. In the interest of a familiar interface and like Derek, 'alert fatigue', VMan was basically a no-brainer. The overall integration continues to improve with each update and…

Over 9 years ago

Contributed a review of SolarWinds Virtualization Manager: Adhoc reporting takes time to get used to, but our monitoring and management is much more efficient.

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Over 8 years ago

IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server

The capability to baseline the environment and define thresholds for alerting is definitely the most valuable feature in my opinion.

Over 9 years ago

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager

Adhoc reporting takes time to get used to, but our monitoring and management is much more efficient.