Solution Overview
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor
Multi-vendor storage performance and capacity monitoring
At A Glance
SolarWinds® Storage Resource Monitor is storage monitoring and capacity management software that gives you deep visibility into the performance of your multi-vendor storage arrays, and helps you closely watch the application stack for storage issues that affect application performance.
Features Overview
- Multi-vendor storage monitoring
- Storage performance monitoring
- Automated storage capacity planning
- Storage I/O hotspot detection
- Prebuilt alerts and automatic baselines
- Storage environment reporting
Key Features
Multi-vendor storage monitoring
Monitoring for multi-vendor storage arrays from EMC®, NetApp®, Dell®, and others.
Comprehensive storage performance monitoring and alerting across all your storage arrays to ensure peak performance and avoid capacity surprises.
Storage performance monitoring
Real-time NAS and SAN performance monitoring with status and usage threshold alerting.
Identify storage performance problems quickly and easily with storage monitoring tools before they affect your applications.
Automated storage capacity planning
Monitor storage capacity with easy-to-view, projected growth rates.
Have a clear picture into each capacity layer; array, pool, and LUN/Volume to see capacity growth and when space will run out.
Storage I/O hotspot detection
Isolate I/O hotspots to identify what’s causing a problem before they impact your solution.
Quickly identify IOPS, throughput, and latency hotspots inside your storage devices. Identify when resources are being overworked.
Prebuilt alerts and automatic baselines
Get notified about issues with your devices, LUNs, storage pools/RAID groups, CIFS shares, and more.
Know about performance problems before they affect your applications with easy to use alerts and customizable thresholds.
Storage environment reporting
Create predefined and custom reports to see performance and capacity trends in your storage environment.
Provide easy to read and understand reports on the overall health of your storage arrays. Show capacity trends across multiple vendors without the use of spreadsheets.
Resources
| Young’s Seafood Young’s Seafood is a provider of chilled goods and is dependent on its IT systems for getting the goods out the door. Therefore it’s essential that Young’s IT team has a responsive and pro-active approach to the delivery of IT services. SolarWinds enabled Young’s Seafood to bring services in-house rapidly, without disrupting service. |
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| NetSuite Selects SolarWinds for Global, End-to-End IT Infrastructure Management NetSuite uses SolarWinds to achieve global, end-to-end operational efficiency. Once SolarWinds products were implemented, NetSuite’s IT Team saw significant improvement in visibility, stability and understanding of their environmen. |
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| How SolarWinds saves Immofori from staff downtime Sven Meinks believes that if the computer systems running financial services companies AG Services Deutschland and Service Advisors Deutschland were to crash, it would take only two hours before their combined staff of 130 were unable to work or serve their customers. Fortunately Sven has implemented SolarWinds solutions which provide critical pre-emptive warning of possible network problems, and as a result there have been no systems failures. |
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| APS Bank Goes from Reactive to Proactive with SolarWinds Storage Manager Soon after implementing Storage Manager, APS Bank were able to avert 2 critical issues in advance by proactively diagnosing them using Storage Manager. Without it, this situation could have ended in a service performance issue or outage. |
| Datasheet: Storage Resource Monitor SolarWinds Storage Resource Manager helps you keep a sharp eye on the performance and capacity of your physical and virtual storage infrastructure—end to end, from VM to spindle! |
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| Datasheet: Storage Profiler for EMC Symmetrix Storage Networks View the health of your entire EMC Symmetrix Storage Network via a single pane. SolarWinds Storage Profiler is the only intuitive, web-based application that combines storage monitoring, reporting, alerting, and forecasting across the entire multi-vendor storage stack for EMC Symmetrix DAS, NAS, and SAN systems. Storage Profiler unifies the view from all layers in the stack – from the user to the disk – making administration more efficient, mitigating risks, and optimizing what you’ve got to work with. |
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| Datasheet: Backup Profiler You need a solution that gives you real-time, consolidated visibility into the status of your backup operations and helps prevent failures and loss of critical data. SolarWinds Backup Profiler allows you to say goodbye to your scripts and spreadsheets and say hello to easy-to-use, centralized backup management software that doesn’t break the bank. |
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| Datasheet: Storage Manager for EMC Symmetrix Get better insight into your EMC Symmetrix environment with SolarWinds Storage Manager. |
| What Happen When VMs Go Bad? Rogue VMs, wasted licenses and VM sprawl are all major headaches of a virtual infrastructure that cost time and money if not managed properly. See how Virtualization Manager can help change the way you manage your VMs. |
| Performance Monitoring made easy with Storage Resource Monitor Managing storage is a constant dance of making sure resources are available for the applications that need them, and making sure resources are constantly in use, because having wasted resources in addition to no resources can be problem. |
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| Evaluator’s Guide – Storage Resource Monitor Read this document to understand key features of SRM and how these features will benefit you in running your data center efficiently. |
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| Top 4 Causes of Storage I/O Bottlenecks Storage performance issues impact several resources attached to the storage system. Learn tips and best practices to identify and fix the top 4 storage I/O performance bottlenecks. Diagnose storage issues and achieve optimum performance of your storage system. |
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| 2015 State of Virtualization & Storage Management Report In March of 2015, SolarWinds and ActualTech Media partnered to discover just how far virtualization has penetrated the data center and to identify the real challenges that face modern organizations. More importantly, we sought to understand the common characteristics of the modern data center in order to help end users best identify solutions that can ease the overall management and monitoring effort that must be expended. Do you struggle with capacity planning, storage performance or VM sprawl? You’re not alone! In this report, you’ll discover the most common virtualization challenges faced by your peers and more. |
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| Lowering the Cost of Deleting Data This whitepaper addresses the challenges companies and Storage Administrators face when it comes to managing storage space and deleting old data. Learn how your organization can expand the visibility of its data storage and lower the costs associated with deleting old or unused data. |
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| Best Practices For Managing A Multi-Vendor Storage Environment A multi-vendor strategy allows the flexibility to address specific business needs whether it be performance, capacity or cost. |
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| Storage Management First Steps – Improving Storage Performance Storage Switzerlandʼs article “Storage Management First Steps – Inventory and Capacity Control” covered how to quickly gain control of the storage environment through a better understanding of what is present (inventory) and how to reduce costs by increasing utilization (capacity control). The next step in storage management is to maximize performance through a better understanding of the storage infrastructure and how to maximize I/O utilization. |
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| Storage Management First Steps – Improving Storage Performance Storage Switzerlandʼs article “Storage Management First Steps – Inventory and Capacity Control” covered how to quickly gain control of the storage environment through a better understanding of what is present (inventory) and how to reduce costs by increasing utilization (capacity control). The next step in storage management is to maximize performance through a better understanding of the storage infrastructure and how to maximize I/O utilization. |
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| Storage Management First Steps – Inventory and Capacity Control As discussed in Storage Switzerlandʼs recent article “Why Bother Managing Storage?” one of the challenges when selecting a storage management application is knowing what to do with the solution once itʼs installed. The goal of that article was to motivate data center managers to deploy a storage resource management solution prior to storage problems arising. This allows for a more balanced approach to the use of the solution. |
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| Addressing Storage Performance Challenges in the Virtual Server Environment Server virtualization is causing performance problems for users, especially within the storage infrastructure. The complexity and abstraction with the way server virtualization deals with storage has created a new resource problem, storage IOPS, and rendered the existing management tools less effective. In lieu of simply adding more storage, we need to be smarter with the way we address storage performance challenges, which requires cross domain information and better tools to monitor and manage this dynamic environment. |
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| How To Build An Accurate Storage Budget Building an accurate storage budget is going to be more challenging than ever, but if mastered, has the potential to bring the greatest benefit to the applications in the data center. |
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| Storage Switzerland: SolarWinds Storage Profiiler The Storage Resource Manager (SRM) market has consolidated more quickly than the storage market itself, and in most cases the companies are acquired by an array manufacturer. This has created a quandary for users as the acquired products have become focused on their new companies hardware, often at the expense of multi-vendor storage support or visibility into the complete infrastructure. One of the lone remaining independent storage resource management tools is SolarWinds Storage Profiler. |
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| Storage Switzerland Report: Doing More with Less Money One TB of SAN-based storage typically costs about $5000 USD. But the average organization often has GBs and TBs of wasted, abandoned, and mis-allocated storage. With the right tools, organizations can identify and reclaim wasted storage space, saving money while adding efficiency. This whitepaper discusses strategies for managing storage usage in order to reduce costs and gain the greatest ROI possible. |
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| Server Virtualization Best Practices Virtualization, by definition, is using one piece of hardware to supply the resources needed by multiple “virtual” machines. The division of resources is important and must be carefully considered when setting up the server and the virtual machines it will host. In this whitepaper, learn server virtualization best practices including selecting virtualization software, setup and creation of virtual machines, and maintenance. |
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| Storage Switzerland Report: Doing More in Less Time When IT managers talk about doing more with less and increasing efficiency, they often focus on improving resource utilization. The first step in that process is to find tools that will enable staff to save time. In this whitepaper, learn about tools that enable quick collection and analysis of critical system data in order to optimize efficiency in data center management. |
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| Storage Switzerland Report: Maximizing Your Storage Cost Cutting Efforts To get maximum benefit when driving out storage management costs you need to first drive in efficiency through a proper analysis of the IT environment. Today, tools exist that provide independent third party analysis of the storage environment and how applications interact with that environment. In this whitepaper, learn how to cut storage costs by inventorying the data set, mapping primary and secondary data and assessing performance. |
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| Storage Switzerland Report: Total Capacity Management Broadly, the goal of Total Capacity Management is to ensure that all resources in the data center are being used at an effective but safe level. In this whitepaper, learn the critical value of implementing tools that not only improves resource utilization, but also allow for capacity planning. Too little resource utilization and tight budget dollars are wasted. Too much utilization and an organization’s digital assets are put at risk. |
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| Storage Switzerland: Server Virtualization & Third-Party Monitoring Server virtualization has caused dramatic changes to the data center’s storage infrastructure. In many cases, it has driven the first purchase and implementation of a shared storage system. In others, it has created a situation where performance or capacity of their shared storage is a problem, again, for the first time. To address these issues, data centers of all sizes should look for a storage monitoring and management tool that goes beyond the capabilities of the vendor software, especially if the data center is moving toward a virtualized server environment. |
- Case Studies
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Young’s Seafood
Young’s Seafood is a provider of chilled goods and is dependent on its IT systems for getting the goods out the door. Therefore it’s essential that Young’s IT team has a responsive and pro-active approach to the delivery of IT services. SolarWinds enabled Young’s Seafood to bring services in-house rapidly, without disrupting service.NetSuite Selects SolarWinds for Global, End-to-End IT Infrastructure Management
NetSuite uses SolarWinds to achieve global, end-to-end operational efficiency. Once SolarWinds products were implemented, NetSuite’s IT Team saw significant improvement in visibility, stability and understanding of their environmen.How SolarWinds saves Immofori from staff downtime
Sven Meinks believes that if the computer systems running financial services companies AG Services Deutschland and Service Advisors Deutschland were to crash, it would take only two hours before their combined staff of 130 were unable to work or serve their customers. Fortunately Sven has implemented SolarWinds solutions which provide critical pre-emptive warning of possible network problems, and as a result there have been no systems failures.APS Bank Goes from Reactive to Proactive with SolarWinds Storage Manager
Soon after implementing Storage Manager, APS Bank were able to avert 2 critical issues in advance by proactively diagnosing them using Storage Manager. Without it, this situation could have ended in a service performance issue or outage. - Data Sheets
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Datasheet: Storage Resource Monitor
SolarWinds Storage Resource Manager helps you keep a sharp eye on the performance and capacity of your physical and virtual storage infrastructure—end to end, from VM to spindle!Datasheet: Storage Profiler for EMC Symmetrix Storage Networks
View the health of your entire EMC Symmetrix Storage Network via a single pane. SolarWinds Storage Profiler is the only intuitive, web-based application that combines storage monitoring, reporting, alerting, and forecasting across the entire multi-vendor storage stack for EMC Symmetrix DAS, NAS, and SAN systems. Storage Profiler unifies the view from all layers in the stack – from the user to the disk – making administration more efficient, mitigating risks, and optimizing what you’ve got to work with.Datasheet: Backup Profiler
You need a solution that gives you real-time, consolidated visibility into the status of your backup operations and helps prevent failures and loss of critical data. SolarWinds Backup Profiler allows you to say goodbye to your scripts and spreadsheets and say hello to easy-to-use, centralized backup management software that doesn’t break the bank.Datasheet: Storage Manager for EMC Symmetrix
Get better insight into your EMC Symmetrix environment with SolarWinds Storage Manager. - Infographics
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What Happen When VMs Go Bad?
Rogue VMs, wasted licenses and VM sprawl are all major headaches of a virtual infrastructure that cost time and money if not managed properly. See how Virtualization Manager can help change the way you manage your VMs. - White Papers
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Performance Monitoring made easy with Storage Resource Monitor
Managing storage is a constant dance of making sure resources are available for the applications
that need them, and making sure resources are constantly in use, because having wasted
resources in addition to no resources can be problem.Evaluator’s Guide – Storage Resource Monitor
Read this document to understand key features of SRM and how these features will benefit you in running your data center efficiently.Top 4 Causes of Storage I/O Bottlenecks
Storage performance issues impact several resources attached to the storage system. Learn tips and best practices to identify and fix the top 4 storage I/O performance bottlenecks. Diagnose storage issues and achieve optimum performance of your storage system.2015 State of Virtualization & Storage Management Report
In March of 2015, SolarWinds and ActualTech Media partnered to discover just how far virtualization has penetrated the data center and to identify the real challenges that face modern organizations. More importantly, we sought to understand the common characteristics of the modern data center in order to help end users best identify solutions that can ease the overall management and monitoring effort that must be expended. Do you struggle with capacity planning, storage performance or VM sprawl? You’re not alone! In this report, you’ll discover the most common virtualization challenges faced by your peers and more.Lowering the Cost of Deleting Data
This whitepaper addresses the challenges companies and Storage Administrators face when it comes to managing storage space and deleting old data. Learn how your organization can expand the visibility of its data storage and lower the costs associated with deleting old or unused data.Best Practices For Managing A Multi-Vendor Storage Environment
A multi-vendor strategy allows the flexibility to address specific business needs whether it be performance, capacity or cost.Storage Management First Steps – Improving Storage Performance
Storage Switzerlandʼs article “Storage Management First Steps – Inventory and Capacity Control” covered how to quickly gain control of the storage environment through a better understanding of what is present (inventory) and how to reduce costs by increasing utilization (capacity control). The next step in storage management is to maximize performance through a better understanding of the storage infrastructure and how to maximize I/O utilization.Storage Management First Steps – Improving Storage Performance
Storage Switzerlandʼs article “Storage Management First Steps – Inventory and Capacity Control” covered how to quickly gain control of the storage environment through a better understanding of what is present (inventory) and how to reduce costs by increasing utilization (capacity control). The next step in storage management is to maximize performance through a better understanding of the storage infrastructure and how to maximize I/O utilization.Storage Management First Steps – Inventory and Capacity Control
As discussed in Storage Switzerlandʼs recent article “Why Bother Managing Storage?” one of the challenges when selecting a storage management application is knowing what to do with the solution once itʼs installed. The goal of that article was to motivate data center managers to deploy a storage resource management solution prior to storage problems arising. This allows for a more balanced approach to the use of the solution.Addressing Storage Performance Challenges in the Virtual Server Environment
Server virtualization is causing performance problems for users, especially within the storage infrastructure. The complexity and abstraction with the way server virtualization deals with storage has created a new resource problem, storage IOPS, and rendered the existing management tools less effective. In lieu of simply adding more storage, we need to be smarter with the way we address storage performance challenges, which requires cross domain information and better tools to monitor and manage this dynamic environment.How To Build An Accurate Storage Budget
Building an accurate storage budget is going to be more challenging than ever, but if mastered, has the potential to bring the greatest benefit to the applications in the data center.Storage Switzerland: SolarWinds Storage Profiiler
The Storage Resource Manager (SRM) market has consolidated more quickly than the storage market itself, and in most cases the companies are acquired by an array manufacturer. This has created a quandary for users as the acquired products have become focused on their new companies hardware, often at the expense of multi-vendor storage support or visibility into the complete infrastructure. One of the lone remaining independent storage resource management tools is SolarWinds Storage Profiler.Storage Switzerland Report: Doing More with Less Money
One TB of SAN-based storage typically costs about $5000 USD. But the average organization often has GBs and TBs of wasted, abandoned, and mis-allocated storage. With the right tools, organizations can identify and reclaim wasted storage space, saving money while adding efficiency. This whitepaper discusses strategies for managing storage usage in order to reduce costs and gain the greatest ROI possible.Server Virtualization Best Practices
Virtualization, by definition, is using one piece of hardware to supply the resources needed by multiple “virtual” machines. The division of resources is important and must be carefully considered when setting up the server and the virtual machines it will host. In this whitepaper, learn server virtualization best practices including selecting virtualization software, setup and creation of virtual machines, and maintenance.Storage Switzerland Report: Doing More in Less Time
When IT managers talk about doing more with less and increasing efficiency, they often focus on improving resource utilization. The first step in that process is to find tools that will enable staff to save time. In this whitepaper, learn about tools that enable quick collection and analysis of critical system data in order to optimize efficiency in data center management.Storage Switzerland Report: Maximizing Your Storage Cost Cutting Efforts
To get maximum benefit when driving out storage management costs you need to first drive in efficiency through a proper analysis of the IT environment. Today, tools exist that provide independent third party analysis of the storage environment and how applications interact with that environment. In this whitepaper, learn how to cut storage costs by inventorying the data set, mapping primary and secondary data and assessing performance.Storage Switzerland Report: Total Capacity Management
Broadly, the goal of Total Capacity Management is to ensure that all resources in the data center are being used at an effective but safe level. In this whitepaper, learn the critical value of implementing tools that not only improves resource utilization, but also allow for capacity planning. Too little resource utilization and tight budget dollars are wasted. Too much utilization and an organization’s digital assets are put at risk.Storage Switzerland: Server Virtualization & Third-Party Monitoring
Server virtualization has caused dramatic changes to the data center’s storage infrastructure. In many cases, it has driven the first purchase and implementation of a shared storage system. In others, it has created a situation where performance or capacity of their shared storage is a problem, again, for the first time. To address these issues, data centers of all sizes should look for a storage monitoring and management tool that goes beyond the capabilities of the vendor software, especially if the data center is moving toward a virtualized server environment.