VMAN Eval: Is VMAN worth it over the basic poller and regular node data?

Question

Evaluating VMAN and curious what others opinions are out there please?

We have a reasonable sized environment and I am trying to justify VMAN but looking to see what the real-world major differences are vs std poller and node SNMP data?

Cheers

Twister

jvb · Answer

The basic polling that you get for virtual assets in SAM or NPM is going to give you a very light topology and some basic metrics but you will be missing the depth of analysis that full VMAN can provide with features like:

* Capacity planning tools
* Recommendations for balancing your environment
* Sprawl tools to recover wasted resources or "right size" things that are over or under allocated
* Automation of actions to move or resize resources in response to thresholds being crossed
* Chargeback reporting 
* vSAN support
* Nutanix monitoring (if that is relevant in your environment)
* Deeper storage connections if you are also running SRM