IBM Storage Insights vs. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

This product is highly recommended, first because it has a trial version that lasts 30 days, which is a good time to demonstrate the functionalities of this product to customers, in my case it has been very useful when we have a latency problem in the storage and we don't know the cause, I let the application run for a week and I have reports of all the storage components

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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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• IBM Storage Insights has an excellent interaction with other IBM applications
• IBM Storage Insights Cloud storage is very secure
• IBM Storage Insights allows for the transfer of data between different data storage systems

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• 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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• Android devices still requires IBM Storage Insights for outstanding functionality.
• Further, IBM Storage Insights has a complex interface, that requires adequate orientation.
• Besides, IBM Storage Insights is known to offer full service in terms of storage and other evaluating measures.

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• 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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It has helped me prove that we need more storage as well as faster storage to management

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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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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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Easy to use set up wizard went off without a hitch.

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IBM Storage Insights is competent in the amount of database the software can hold, with advanced external space, that makes companies balance the operations and control the analytics. Besides, IBM Storage Insights gauge the working capacity of software, by deploying accurate system controls and [validating] the security protocols. Finally, IBM Storage Insights has set terms that are perfect, reasonable, and committed to [helping].

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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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• IBM Storage Insights generates opinions or results from the analytical powers.
• IBM Storage Insights makes sharing the norm in a company, which lowers expense.
• IBM Storage Insights makes companies hold large database without compromise.

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• 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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