Solar Winds SRM integrates well with Orion
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We (IT) monitor two EMC SANs for performance and capacity. One is production, the other is remote office production and DR. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) gives us a historical view of capacity and latency, with the ability to alert on metrics, including customizing alerts. All alert management is centralized in the Orion interface so there's no separate alert management for SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM).
Pros
- LUN-level capacity use
- LUN-level performance data
- Capacity forecast for each LUN
Cons
- Most of the metrics are fairly high level
- No visibility into virtual disks (you need Virtualization Monitor for that)
- Not much granularity in hardware health
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
