IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift vs. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift
Score 7.9 out of 10
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IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides the infrastructure foundation and storage orchestration for a full-platform on-premises hybrid multicloud environment that supports CSI. IBM now supports CSI for its block and file storage families so you can improve container utilization in Kubernetes environments with market-leading virtualization, data reduction and copy data management.N/A
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)
Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is a data center performance monitoring solution from Austin-based company SolarWinds. It features a unified data storage management system with end-to-end monitoring and automatic capacity forecasting.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShiftSolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
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9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
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8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShiftSolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
This product performance has been creating positive impact on the growth of our company. I can highly recommend to any company that is struggling to find data storage platform. Since we deployed this tool our data is always secure and our files have the most reliable storage tools. Server storage services from IBM portfolio have been great and we have never failed in any day in data transmission from various sources.
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SolarWinds
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) is pretty good at forecasting capacity consumption, which was a must for us. If you have LUNs that have high latency in a normal environment (user shares, for instance), you'll need to customize the alerts to tune out the noise. As with all SW modules and most other products, there is a time lag between what is in the console and what's happening now. Data in the console and alerts are typically 5 to 15 minutes old.
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Pros
IBM
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SolarWinds
  • Unmasks storage performance metrics and gives a common dashboard for monitoring.
  • A simple, intuitive interface for adding supported storage frames.
  • Lineage -- "The guest OS is connected to the virtual host and the virtual host is connected to the ... wait, what LUN is that?!?" #SOLVED.
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Cons
IBM
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SolarWinds
  • Issues getting SMI working correctly to monitor Compellents through SRM.
  • The ability to break down alerts to a more granular level.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
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SolarWinds
It has helped me prove that we need more storage as well as faster storage to management
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Usability
IBM
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SolarWinds
Easy to set up and start. Out of the box alerts which you can tweak to your needs. Easy to use interfaces as well
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Support Rating
IBM
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SolarWinds
Do not have to contact support for issues often and when i do it is fast to get response and resolve my issues
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Implementation Rating
IBM
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SolarWinds
Easy to use set up wizard went off without a hitch.
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IBM
I have not worked with such powerful data storage platform in our organization. This platform has provided us with the most basic storage platform that has enhanced reliable momentum on data management. All our workloads are always under safe environment in this platform and customization of storage disks have been done effectively. IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift has met all our cloud storage demands and we are proud of its services.
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SolarWinds
We have a full suite of SolarWinds products and did not evaluate other options for a full package. For selective monitoring we log into the devices, but this has made that much easier as we have a dashboard rather than logging into devices one at a time.
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Return on Investment
IBM
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SolarWinds
  • Real-time monitoring and alerting to surpass those of native vSphere and in some occasions, better than manufacturer written software.
  • Historical monitoring of environment with charts and graphs to assist with ever changing environment loads.
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