Solar Winds SRM integrates well with Orion
July 26, 2021

Solar Winds SRM integrates well with Orion

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

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
EMC has a free monitoring and reporting package for VNV that's good at disk-level performance in near real time (heat map). For everything else, we look at SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM).

Do you think SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)'s feature set?

Yes

Did SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) again?

Yes

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.