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Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

Here we explain the value proposition of SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM). This content will help you understand the key features of SRM and how these features can benefit you in running your data center efficiently.

What is Solarwinds Storage Resource Monitor?

Multi-Vendor, Agentless NAS and SAN Performance Monitoring Is The Main Functionality Of Solarwinds Storage Resource Monitor(SRM) Tool. It encompasses capacity monitoring and forecasting for all your storage devices. You will be able to set up custom and predefined alerts and reports on everything from a centralized location saving time hence avoiding down time. This prevents interruptions while maintaining maximum efficiency in your data storage systems.

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Problems SRM can help you solve

You have several storage vendors in your data center and no one tool to monitor them

  • You have a manual capacity planning process
  • You recently had to make a last-minute storage purchase
  • You don’t have easy visibility into the information you need to justify new storage investments to management
  • You experience performance issues on end-user applications caused by storage
  • You don’t have visibility across IT infrastructure—application to storage—to pinpoint the cause and impact of performance issues

What makes SolarWinds SRM unique?

SRM was built for unified storage monitoring: One tool for monitoring storage arrays from EMC, NetApp, Dell, Huawei, and others.

Resource savings: Save time and money with SRM’s automated storage capacity planning feature.

Faster time to resolution: Having detailed visibility into storage arrays, RAID groups, and LUNs makes it easy to identify storage issues quickly and act faster.

Make informed decisions: SRM offers hundreds of out-of-the-box reports that can help eliminate assumption-driven decisions.

End-to-end IT monitoring: SRM is designed to provide a comprehensive picture of overall IT health. The AppStack dashboard can give you an instant view of your infrastructure, from application to storage.

Monitoring Storage Arrays Using SRM

The SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is a tool that provides dashboards which are easy to understand and customize to give you information about the performance and capacity of your devices (array/filer), pools, and LUNs. By combining SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor with Virtualization Manager to create an Application Stack view, you can quickly identify and troubleshoot any issues with your applications.

Unified Storage Monitoring

When it comes to assessing the condition of various brands’ storage solutions, one may find it hard to comprehend. To keep all their storage systems and devices operating properly, storage admin must be equipped with diverse tools.

If you use such a storage monitoring tool as SRM, then you can view all your storage drives at once in one place. The home dashboard of SRM displays key stats of your storage in a way that is quick and clear, showing usable capacity, raw disk summary and indicating any potential performance threats. Furthermore, SRM includes a list of alerts that require quick response and remedial measures.

Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

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Storage Performance Monitoring

SRM was designed to facilitate SAN and NAS performance monitoring and alerting aimed at ridding your data center of performance bottlenecks. Besides, a single view into storage performance makes some critical but tedious and complicated tasks easier. Such tasks include managing disk space usage on RAID groups, tracing back storage volumes to host computers, and comprehending volume load balancing across various storage arrays. On top of this, SRM can help you establish whether or not all objects within your storage environment are performing well. By using the solution provided by SRM, you will be able to pinpoint those LUNs that perform badly, as well as RAID groups and disks that do not work properly.

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Detailed Dashboards

SRM helps find your way through each and every phase of storage like arrays, pools or LUNs. One click transfer from an upper level to lower level is smooth sailing all the time. Every individual storage sub-layer has an elaborate-interface showing key measurements about efficiency and wellness. By making use of these tools it becomes easy to fix any performance issue by identifying the real hotspot so that unanticipated outages would be less likely to occur.

Automated Storage Capacity Planning

In SRM, the storage capacity function is meant to keep track of usage over time and assist in identifying capacity issues in the array. This means that growth trends can be viewed easily, along with receiving an estimation when the capacity will be reached. This is useful for administrators who plan when they need to add more capacities and when to re-allocate them. Moreover, SRM can simplify storage capacity planning for both your virtual and physical organizations. Go deeper into the performance of datastores allocated to specific VMs in your environment. Track dynamic relationships between apps, VMs, LUNs, pools and arrays to uncover capacity problems and find out if it is really a problem with storage performance that is causing latency. Discover which VMs are concerned with storage issues so as to take necessary measures that would prevent possible downtime of these particular VMs.

Storage Alerts and Reporting

Alerts

Receive alerts about performance issues with your storage devices, LUNs, storage pools/RAID groups, CIFS shares, and more. Set thresholds and generate proactive alerts that are customized to your business’s policies for usage and status information.

Storage Resource Monitor alerts

 Reporting

Your reporting parameters can be tailored to produce insightful business intelligence. The out-of-the-box reports such as an enterprise capacity summary, RAID/storage pool group utilization thin provisioning, free LUNS, asset information etc. can serve as a good starting point. In addition, these reports can either be scheduled, emailed or exported in CSV or HTML format for in-depth customization.

Easy-To-Use And Customizable Dashboards

All SRM dashboards—Storage Summary, Capacity Dashboard, Performance Dashboard, and Detailed Views—are customizable. The drag-and-drop widgets allow you to design your dashboards to suit your needs.

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