Solar Winds SRM integrates well with Orion
We (IT) monitor two EMC SANs for performance and capacity. One is production, the other is remote office production and DR. SolarWinds …
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What is SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)?
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.
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What is SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)?
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.
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What is SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)?
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) is designed to allow the user to visualize and solve storage performance issues quickly and easily, across storage arrays from all leading vendors including Dell EMC, NetApp, Pure, HPE and many more. Determine when storage capacity will run out with integrated capacity planning and reporting. For SolarWinds® customers using other Orion® based products, the vendor states Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) will seamlessly integrate with existing system, network, database and virtualization monitoring products providing a single-pane-of-glass experience.
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- Monitoring for multi-vendor storage arrays from Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE, Hitachi, Pure and others
Real-time NAS and SAN attached array performance monitoring capacity planning
- Alert and notification feature for issues or performance problems with your devices, LUNs, storage pools/RAID groups, and more
The SolarWinds® PerfStack™ feature within the SRM storage monitoring solution allows users to drag, drop, and overlay performance metrics from their other SolarWinds® monitoring solutions on a single chart. Types of data include network, virtualization, storage, and database.
- Predefined and custom storage performance and capacity trend reports
- Reporting on the overall health of storage arrays with help from SRM storage monitoring software without the use of spreadsheets
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) Features
- Supported: Storage Performance Monitoring
- Supported: Capacity Planning
- Supported: Support for over 40 storage array types
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | English |
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SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
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| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 10% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 40% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 50% |
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Users of SolarWinds SRM have provided the following recommendations based on their experiences:
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It is important to include strong vendor support in this product. Users appreciate relying on support for resolving internal bugs in the SRM product.
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All reported bugs should be fixed promptly. This improves the overall functionality and performance of SolarWinds SRM.
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Make sure to confirm if the storage device is supported by SolarWinds SRM and if it supports SMI-S, SNMP polling, and SNMP Traps. This ensures seamless integration with the desired storage infrastructure.
These recommendations highlight the significance of vendor support, bug fixing, and device compatibility in utilizing SolarWinds SRM effectively.
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July 26, 2021
Solar Winds SRM integrates well with Orion
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).
- LUN-level capacity use
- LUN-level performance data
- Capacity forecast for each LUN
- 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
June 29, 2019
When it isn't the network (but it's always the network, isn't it!?) then it's the storage -- but can you prove it??
SolarWinds Storage Resource Manager was part of our strategy to answer the question "But isn't our storage fast enough?" or "If our storage frame were to fail, what would the impact be?" SRM, though primarily used by our Storage team, was instrumental in giving our DR team and our CMDB team the insights they needed to handle performance planning, DR planning, and what we called Infrastructure Lineage.
- 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.
- No ability to add your own storage frames -- if it isn't supported, you aren't monitoring it.
- Troubleshooting connectivity failures lack full transparency. It isn't needed often, but could be more verbose.
- It's expensive relative to the other tools from SolarWinds -- but, then again, so was your shared storage!
February 04, 2019
Solarwinds SRM - The Ultimate Storage Monitoring Tool.
We have a wide variety of Dell SANS across our estate, ranging from Dell EqualLogics, Compellents and MD (FC and iSCSI) shelves. We recently purchased the SRM module for Orion to integrate with Solarwinds DPA and NPM. Its made a huge difference in terms of visibility and linking up with performance issues from storage.
- Granular visibility of IOPS and IO.
- Capacity Planning.
- The ability to link storage to databases through Orion DPA.
- Alerting and Reporting.
- Issues getting SMI working correctly to monitor Compellents through SRM.
- The ability to break down alerts to a more granular level.
December 12, 2018
Storage Resource Monitor Easy to set up, manage and monitor storage.
This is only being used by our IT Department. We use it to monitor our storage for performance issues as well as plan ahead for expansion. It helps us find out if certain systems need to be moved to faster storage arrays.
- Easy to use interface.
- Easy to set up.
- Integrates with our other Solarwinds products.
- Works with a lot of different storage arrays.
- I have not found any cons of this product
August 03, 2018
Storage Resource Monitor - with ease
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor allows us to see at a glance all of the metrics that are available on our storage devices. Without this tool we would either have to connect to the CLI and look for specific things or build scripts and custom dashboards on our own. This makes monitoring and reviewing much easier.
- Asset inventory for storage
- Predicting the future usage
- Performance metrics
- Revealing the internal statistics such as temperatures and hardware condition
- The list of devices covers the most popular, but adding more types of devices is always helpful
- Device types make it difficult to connect some times (on the vendor side) but the product does a good job, configuration could be easier for setting up devices.
November 15, 2016
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor Review
We use the SolarWinds virtualization suite and storage resource manager for monitoring our environment. It is currently used by our managed services to monitor, create, troubleshoot, and assign tickets. It is also used by our network team to monitor endpoints. It is a great monitoring tool and statistical basis for our troubleshooting and engineering teams to get involved with problems as seen across the environment.
- The SolarwWinds Storage Resource Monitor does good reporting and alerting to an issue. Our service center which has live monitoring uses the tool for real-time monitoring of events. It then creates tickets to action various alarms.
- Real-time size monitoring of especially thin storage is always necessary to any thin VMware environment.
- Great historical graph representations of storage related events. Ability to create performance graphs and monitor changes.
- Currently there is no support for XtremIO storage. So we have to monitor that separately.
- It could provide proactive measures to fix any Storage or SIOC related bottlenecks in the environment.