Virtualization Management Software

Virtualization management refers to the processes and practices involved in managing the operations of a virtual environment. These operations are typically controlled through software and applications acting as an interface between virtual machines or environments and the physical hardware they run on.

Some of the basic processes of virtualization management include creating, updating, or deleting virtual machines, networks, or infrastructures, along with tracking their metrics and ensuring the health of systems. In large networks, it’s critical for admins to be able to perform many of these functions from a centralized console to avoid having to check the health of each individual virtual environment.

The processes of creating and managing virtual devices and environments can be extensive and complicated, so many virtualization management solutions are built to present these options and features in straightforward user dashboards with the ability to easily create virtual machines, run reports, and apply protocols.

Effective virtualization management works by optimizing an organization’s hardware to create sufficient computing and networking environments for end users to perform their required tasks. Using a system to help simplify and consolidate a wide variety of management tools into one application, administrators can more easily increase this efficiency in ways that are both cost effective and ensure proper allocation of resources. 

Virtualization management is important to maintain visibility into the health of your virtual environments to ensure they’re running optimally and when controlling common issues like VM sprawl.

The process of virtualizing desktops and servers offers many benefits for IT departments and the organizations they support. Virtualization can help businesses save on costs by allowing several separate systems to run on one set of underlying hardware. Virtualization also gives IT departments the ability to launch new servers and workstations quickly. 

Virtualization management is important because it helps streamline and simplify the management process for administrators, including features to help with resource allocation and data analysis. Since virtualization allows you to create new virtual machines in minutes, this can become taxing to the physical hardware keeping all the virtual devices running. Virtual devices are also limited by the technical specifications of the physical device running them. Using VM management tools to monitor the health of your physical devices for indications that they’re reaching the end of their life cycles can help avoid masses of idle or out-of-use virtual devices eating up your bandwidth and computing usage.

Virtual machine and virtual server management tools allow you to easily manage virtual environments by providing a centralized application for quick monitoring, control, and reporting. VM management tools monitor both the health and status of virtual machines and resources and will typically represent these metrics in graph form for easy comparison between devices across the same virtual environment. This allows you to quickly access the information necessary to make informed decisions. 

VM management tools provide performance monitoring and management functionality to ensure each virtual device or environment is working at capacity to deliver the services expected of it without being overtaxed. Virtualization monitoring tools can also be used to test and establish connectivity between virtualized devices across the environment.

Virtualization management software can also provide support on the infrastructure level through the automation of certain processes, such as auto-provisioning, which allows for the reallocation of computational resources to meet network needs without manual intervention or assistance. VM management tools like SolarWinds Virtualization Manager work with these automated processes to help make the job of IT professionals easier by reducing busywork and expediting the management and monitoring methods available to administrators to better control, adjust, and troubleshoot virtual devices.

Virtualization Manager provides a comprehensive set of tools designed to allow administrators to monitor and manage their virtualized environments to ensure each device is performing at optimal efficiency. VMAN includes predictive recommendations for actionable intelligence generated by the metrics monitored by its VM monitoring tool. A robust alerting system keeps administrators on top of every detected issue across the environment, while event correlation graphs allow for easy troubleshooting of performance issues. 

If your organization is planning to scale or expand, the powerful capacity planning wizard in Virtualization Manager can let you test new or larger virtualized configurations, which is essential to making budgetary and resource allocation decisions.

Virtualization Manager also enables the easy optimization of each of your virtualized devices and environments, all from one centralized and customizable dashboard, which frees admins to devote their efforts to other important activities.