Compare SolarWinds Virtualization and Data Center Essentials - May 2022

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / May 26, 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - SolarWinds Virtualization or Data Center Essentials?

Data Center Essentials is more expensive to implement (TCO) than SolarWinds Virtualization, and SolarWinds Virtualization is rated higher (85/100) than Data Center Essentials (62/100). Both tools offer the same amount of features.

Looking for the right Virtualization solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

SolarWinds Vs. RACKWISE

SolarWinds: Since our founding in 1999, SolarWinds’ (NYSE: SWI) mission has been to provide purpose-built products that are designed to make IT professionals’ jobs easier. We offer value-driven products and tools that solve a broad range of IT management challenges – whether those challenges are related to networks, servers, applications, storage or virtualiza...

RACKWISE: RACKWISE, Inc. is a leader in software development and marketing within the growing markets for IT infrastructure, data center monitoring, management and optimization, data center cost efficiency and green data centers and its branded Rackwise® Products and Services are used throughout the world. Its flagship data center infrastructure managemen...

Who is more expensive? SolarWinds Virtualization or Data Center Essentials (DCE)?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Virtualization software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for SolarWinds Virtualization and Data Center Essentials (DCE).

SolarWinds Virtualization price starts at $1,759 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Virtualization software. Data Center Essentials (DCE) price starts at $501 per license , When comparing Data Center Essentials (DCE) to its competitors, the software is rated 4 - lower than the average Virtualization software cost.

Bottom line: Data Center Essentials (DCE) is more expensive than SolarWinds Virtualization.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared SolarWinds Virtualization Vs. Data Center Essentials based on some of the most important and required Virtualization features.

SolarWinds Virtualization: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support.

Data Center Essentials (DCE): Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support.

Target customer size

SolarWinds Virtualization's typical customers include: Small, medium and large size businesses, and Data Center Essentials (DCE)'s target customer size include: Medium business, Large business, Private use.

SolarWinds Virtualization

ITQlick rating
(5/5)

starts at $1,759 per license

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager is a growing cloud-based Virtualization software, it is designed to support small, medium and large size business. SolarWinds Virtualization Manager received a rating of 5 from...

Categories: Virtualization.

Data Center Essentials

ITQlick rating
(4.9/5)

starts at $501 per license

Data Center Essentials (DCE) is a fast growing cloud-based Virtualization software, it is designed to support medium and large size business. Data Center Essentials (DCE) received a rating of 4.9 from ITQlick t...

Categories: Fixed Asset Management, Virtualization, 3D Modeling.

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SolarWinds Virtualization: 3 Features

Data Import/Export
Basic Reports
Online Customer Support

Data Center Essentials (DCE): 3 Features

Data Import/Export
Basic Reports
Online Customer Support
ITQlick rating ITQlick Rating is based on the software score (below) and aggregated online reviews
ITQlick score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100, the calculation is based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 (10 is high cost), based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
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SolarWin...
ITQlick rating
5/5
Score
85/100
Pricing
3.2/10
License pricing
$1,759 per license
Functionality
4
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Data Cen...
ITQlick rating
4.9/5
Score
62/100
Pricing
5.4/10
License pricing
$501 per license
Functionality
6
InstallS...
ITQlick rating
3.8/5
Score
90/100
Pricing
7/10
License pricing
$7348.77 per license
Functionality
5
VMware v...
ITQlick rating
4/5
Score
86/100
Pricing
4.2/10
License pricing
$31 per license
Functionality
4
VMware v...
ITQlick rating
4.2/5
Score
83/100
Pricing
5.8/10
License pricing
$4,995 per license
Functionality
4

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Shlomi Lavi is an entrepreneur and founder of ITQlick.com. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 17 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant and implementation expert for small, medium and large-sized (global) companies. Shlomi’s goal is to share the best knowledge and news about information systems so you can make smarter buying decisions for your business.