Name: SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)
Rating: 10 (16 reviews)
Author: SolarWinds

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Augmented Reality Development

Chatbot

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Data Analytics  and BI Services

Document Management

Intellectual Property (IP) Management

Meeting Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Blockchain Payments

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Monitoring

Employee Referral

HR Management

Payroll

Stock Option Plan Administration

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

3D Printing

AI Governance

Change Management

Cloud Migration

Cloud Storage

Continuous Delivery

Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)

DevSecOps

Fraud Detection

IT Alert Management

IT Professional Services

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Managed File Transfer (MFT)

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

Server Virtualization

Software-Defined WAN

System Monitoring

Test Management

Time Series Databases

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Call Tracking

Channel Management

Content Management

Email Marketing

Headless CMS

Marketing Attribution

Marketing Automation

Referral Marketing

Social Media Advertising

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Translation

Web Analytics

Wholesale Marketplace

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Proposal

Sales Enablement

Sales Training

Sales

Data-Centric Audit Protection (DCAP)

Operational Technology (OT) Security

Security

Aviation

Camp Management

Construction Takeoff and Estimating

Financial Services CRM

Hospital Management

Medical Office EMR & EHR

Population Health Management

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Users of SolarWinds SRM have provided the following recommendations based on their experiences:

1. It is important to include strong vendor support in this product. Users appreciate relying on support for resolving internal bugs in the SRM product.

2. All reported bugs should be fixed promptly. This improves the overall functionality and performance of SolarWinds SRM.

3. 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.

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.

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

Storage Management Software (sometimes Data Storage Management Software) gives a unified overview of managed arrays to ease and facilitate control of the individual arrays and the entire data center, private cloud, or the virtualization services for which they're being used.

Storage Management

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Usability

Support Rating

Implementation Rating

SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software. Our products give organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—the power to monitor and manage their IT services, infrastructures, and applications; whether on-premises, in the cloud, or via hybrid models. We continuously engage with technology professionals—IT service and operations professionals, DevOps professionals, and managed services providers (MSPs)—to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available IT infrastructures and applications. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK community, allow us to solve well-understood IT management challenges in the ways technology professionals want them solved. Our focus on the user and commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management has established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for network and IT service management, application performance, and managed services. Learn more today at <a href="http://www.solarwinds.com" rel="">www.solarwinds.com</a>.

SolarWinds

Windows Server

Juniper EX Series Switches

Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

Server Administrator

Solarwinds Storage Resource Monitor 2018-12-12 08:19:03

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TrustRadius

No visibility

Types of devices

Performance report

Device types

Needs improvements

Make it difficult

Data centers

Difficult to connect

Different data

Setting up

Performance metrics

Capacity planning

Real time

Time monitoring

Intuitive interface

Set up

Real time monitoring

Performance data

Vmware environment

Sends alerts

Home

Storage Management Software

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.

Before we purchased SRM, we have very little visibility of the performance of our disks, which would lead to issues
Single pane of glass dashboards allow us to spot issues quickly
Capacity forecasts allow us to also tackle storage issues before we hit a point of no return

Nagios, PRTG Network Monitor and ManageEngine OpManager

VMware ESXi, VMware Horizon (formerly VMware View), VMware vCenter Server

Public & Private Cloud Senior Engineer

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

We are able to plan ahead for storage expansion. This allows us to decide what we need and hold out for special discounts instead of needing to purchase right away.
We are able to move our systems to faster storage if they need it. This keeps systems the most productive

Windows Server, Juniper Ethernet Switches, Microsoft Office 2016

Monitor Storage for issues
Plan for expansion
Move systems to faster storage if needed

Set up alerts to send us notifications when there are storage issues

Price
Product Features
Product Usability
Product Reputation
Prior Experience with the Product
Vendor Reputation
Existing Relationship with the Vendor

Install was easy
Set up to monitor storage was easy

There is nothing that i can think of that is difficult in this product

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.

With SRM we have proactively monitored devices to stay ahead of data growth
SRM makes monitoring of internal asset condition much easier
SRM make monitoring of live statistics much easier.

Wireshark, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, Lansweeper

Senior Network Engineer

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

Visibility into capacity consumption for forecasting budget
Visibility into apps or VMs that negatively affect performance (with some work)
We still rely on the SAN-native phone-home functions for hardware alerts like failed drives

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.

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.

Sr. Storage/Sever Administrator

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

Overview

What is SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)?