Netvault Backup vs. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

If you are using NV for backups and restores, it does the job very well. You can rely on the functions and time it as you prefer it to be executed. They have a great plug-in library which provides integrations of many applications and many databases. The updated versions support better job creations and restorations. You can easily depend on your backups without a hassle. However if you go ahead with its advanced features, you many need further support. Would not recommend using the Cleaning Tape module.There are issues in the reports provided. Also you may face with disk latency issues.

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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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• Rapid recovery helping in data protection.
• Daily backup of entire physical and storage environments.
• Supported on Windows, Linux, VMware, Unix and HyperV platforms.
• Backup different file servers on SQL

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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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• Smartdisk disconnect oftenly.
• Web interface can be improved as it is clunky and looks outdated.
• User guides and support services need to be improved.
• Limited with VMWare plugin.

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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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Pricing was on point with our requirement. A great deal compared to the other products we evaluated. We had recommendations from existing users in the region. Since our requirement was basic backups and restores and NV provided that, we were compelled to go with it as the implementation was very very easy.

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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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• Highly reliable system backups
• Great pricing compared to competitors.
• Manual interference has gone down from almost 40% to initiate backups/recoveries.

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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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