Solarwinds has released version 5.1 of its virtualization management product Virtualization Manager. This version is the follow-up of version 5.0 which was released in April this year. Virtualization Manager is the product which Solarwinds acquired when it acquired a company called Hyper9 in January 2011.
Virtualization Manager delivers integrated VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V capacity planning, performance monitoring, VM sprawl control, configuration management, and chargeback automation.
Version 5.1 provides the following new features:
- Speed and scalability improvements
- Virtual Desktop Dashboard
- More storage data for Hyper-V
Other improvements are detailed in the release notes.