--- title: Virtual Machine Manager Reviews meta_title: 'Virtual Machine Manager Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 29 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Virtual Machine Manager works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 29 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # Virtual Machine Manager Reviews **Vendor:** Synology **Category:** [Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/infrastructure-as-a-service-iaas) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 29 ## About Virtual Machine Manager Virtual Machine Manager allows you to run multiple VMs on your NAS, restore a VM using snapshot technology, and allocate IT resources among several VMs. ## Virtual Machine Manager Reviews ### 1. Very good IaaS management software with a few drawbacks **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2020 **What do you like best about Virtual Machine Manager?** Integration with SMI-S storage, OOB, and Network Virtualization is very helpful for deploying en masse and managing a multi-tenant architecture. **What do you dislike about Virtual Machine Manager?** Lack of Web GUI, very finicky placement rules, and lack of 3rd party integration unless you use SPF and Azure Pack (which is dated and does not support newer OSes). Also, the requirement of RDS adds licensing woes that are not present in most IaaS solutions. **Recommendations to others considering Virtual Machine Manager:** Understand the requirements thoroughly. For example, every Tenant Admin in VMM is considered a user and so should be licensed via RDS CALs. There is no GUI and with the introduction of Azure Stack, it is highly unlikely that MS would implement this in the future. So, the only option for your tenants would be to access via RDWeb or Direct RDP login. There is no direct chargeback feature and for that, you require integration with SCOM. Finally, the implementation of Network Virtualization is not straightforward so it has a steep learning curve. **What problems is Virtual Machine Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multi-tenancy for a public cloud or private cloud scenario. The most helpful features are network, compute and storage automation. This is fairly straightforward and with the newer versions like 2016 and 2019, the implementation of VxLAN has become pretty straightforward. ### 2. Review on Virtual Machine Manager **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Virtual Machine Manager?** It is one stop hypervisor solution for managing infrastructure. It supports hardware's from different vendors. VMM is one of the best hypervisor in market. Keep an eye on the virtual machines and triggers alarm if anything goes wrong. Can be integrated with cloud. Management of all the servers and Virtual machines is really easy. Logs are elaborate to analyze the issue and root cause the problem. **What do you dislike about Virtual Machine Manager?** Sometime some tasks takes long time to complete. **Recommendations to others considering Virtual Machine Manager:** I recommend this product to use in environment where user has to manage Cloud, Virtual Machine and Servers. It is one stop solution for hardware from different vendors. **What problems is Virtual Machine Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Validating VMM functionality. ### 3. Very intuitive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Flavio S. | Senior Systems Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2020 **What do you like best about Virtual Machine Manager?** I like how the software it’s structured. **What do you dislike about Virtual Machine Manager?** The amount of updates needed. Sometimes is too much. **Recommendations to others considering Virtual Machine Manager:** It integrates very well with all Microsoft products. **What problems is Virtual Machine Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralized management for my virtual infrastructure ### 4. VMM **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris C. | System Architect, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Virtual Machine Manager?** Intuitive and easy to use. Fairly easy to setup. **What do you dislike about Virtual Machine Manager?** Not much to say here, support could be a bit better. **What problems is Virtual Machine Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hyper converged infrastructure ### 5. Great experience at all! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ioannis M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Virtual Machine Manager?** nice UI , live migration and many more features **What do you dislike about Virtual Machine Manager?** there is nothing to dislike pretty much. **What problems is Virtual Machine Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** flexible scalability for laod balancing and resource allocation. More benefits Synology VMM PRO ### 6. Recommended **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Virtual Machine Manager?** It manages all VMs of the cluster in one portal **What do you dislike about Virtual Machine Manager?** I dislike that the VMM should be installed on a Server, my recommendation is making it on the cloud portal **Recommendations to others considering Virtual Machine Manager:** It simplify your cluster VMs, and easy to manage them **What problems is Virtual Machine Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can see all VMs of cluster in one portal, wich can be managed and changing any VM status ## Virtual Machine Manager Discussions - [How do I use Virtual Machine Manager?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-use-virtual-machine-manager) - [What is Virtual Machine Management Service?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-virtual-machine-management-service) - [What is the software used to manage virtual host?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-software-used-to-manage-virtual-host) - [What is virtual machine platform feature?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-virtual-machine-platform-feature) - [When will you be integrating the ability to run Mac OS as the guest OS on the VMM?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/27213-when-will-you-be-integrating-the-ability-to-run-mac-os-as-the-guest-os-on-the-vmm) - [View Virtual Machine Manager pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/virtual-machine-manager/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-12+13%3A48%3A02+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=323e2813-4683-4c80-9629-d17dfe9be5a6&secure%5Btoken%5D=2f8f8513fa06508ee8f8e9ddbad08abcb6bd400553e53e84927cff538e561fff&format=llm_user) ## Virtual Machine Manager Features **Infrastructure Provision** - Public Cloud - Private Cloud - Hybrid Cloud - Bare Metal - High-Performance Computing (HPC) - Virtual Machines (VMs) - Edge Computing - Virtual Networks - Cloud Computing **Management** - Pay by Usage - Usage Tracking - Performance Tracking - Activity Tracking **Functionality** - Resource Auto-Scaling **Additional Functionality** - Version Control - Database Support - Real-Time Monitoring - Monitoring - Activity Dashboard - SSL Security - Configurable Workflow - Performance Metrics - Performance Management - Server Monitoring - Data Security - Reporting/Analytics - API - Compliance Management - Access Controls/Permissions - Authentication - Real-Time Analytics - Audit Management - Single Sign On - Generative AI - Third-Party Integrations - Alerts/Escalation - Data Storage Management - AI Copilot - Resource Management - Activity Management - Scheduling - Load Balancing - Backup and Recovery - User Management - Role-Based Permissions - Secure Login - Reporting & Statistics - Network Monitoring - Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management - Task Scheduling - Application Management - Resource Allocation & Planning - Real-Time Notifications - Data Migration - Configuration Management - Log Access - Data Visualization - Real-Time Data - Audit Trail - Secure Data Storage - Data Capture and Transfer - Workflow Management - Performance Monitoring - Search/Filter ## Top Virtual Machine Manager Alternatives - [Amazon EC2](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-ec2/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,144 reviews) - [Akamai Cloud Computing](https://www.g2.com/products/akamai-cloud-computing/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (387 reviews) - [Azure Virtual Machines](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-virtual-machines/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (377 reviews)