Solar Winds SRM integrates well with Orion
July 26, 2021
Solar Winds SRM integrates well with Orion
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