SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor
alerts, monitors and reports on SAN and NAS devices
from vendors like Dell, EMC, and NetApp,
to name a few. SRM helps you to manage
and troubleshoot storage performance and capacity problems. SRM is built on the
the SolarWinds
Orion platform and runs side-by-side with other SolarWinds products allowing you to
easily troubleshoot storage problems across your application
infrastructure. SRM presents meaningful storage metrics across your environment
via easy to navigate dashboards.
The Storage Summary presents a high-level view of any issues related to your
storage infrastructure.
The All Storage Objects resource
shows all the storage devices monitored by the product and relevant
status of each layer of the storage infrastructure.
For example, you can see the status of the overall storage array,
the storage pools, and the LUNs. A tooltip will appear when you hover over
any of these objects,
giving you a quick snapshot of the performance, capacity
and configuration of that object to help you decide if you need to take action.
The All Active Alerts and Events Summary resources
roll-up critical changes and active alerts that keep you informed of issues
that may require attention.
The Storage Objects by Performance Risk resource
displays which objects are currently experiencing performance problems
across your environment. The Storage Objects by Capacity Risk resource
presents
storage capacity for each layer of the storage infrastructure
and forecasts when the resources capacity will be depleted.
The Array Raw Disk Capacity Summary
and Array Usable Capacity Summary resources break down each arrays Used,
Remaining and Total space for both raw and RAIDed capacity.
The NAS Volume Capacity resource summarizes all used and free space
remaining within your NAS volumes.
The Storage Atlas allows you to graphically display status
and location of storage devices across multiple datacenters.
The Performance Dashboard and Capacity Dashboard provide you targeted views
to help quickly resolve
either performance or capacity problems. Let’s drill down on one of the monitored
arrays.
SRM presents a unified view of an array’s
configuration, performance and capacity as well as a roll-up of the array’s dependent
objects such as storage pools.
An array view also contains sub-views to show detailed breakdowns of
configuration,
performance and capacity of file and block storage objects.
Taking a quick look at the array’s overall usable capacity,
we can see how that capacity is allocated to all the storage pools
and RAID groups in the system. Let’s drill down on one of the pools on this array.
The Pool Details view gives you all the relevant contextual information to help you
diagnose
and troubleshoot issues with configuration, performance
and capacity for a storage pool. The Latency Histogram for LUNs resource
can help you get an overall sense of the performance of LUN’s on that pool.
Here you can see that there are several LUN’s that are reporting critical latency
values.
This allows you to identify hotspots in your environment
to easily troubleshoot performance problems. In addition,
SRM breaks down a pool's usable capacity into allocations for each LUN.
This allows you to easily manage pool capacity
and monitor pools at risk for oversubscription in a thin-provisioned
environment.
Similar detailed drill down views
are available for other storage objects such as LUN’s, NAS volumes and file
shares.
SRM is also AppStack environment enabled
providing a complete picture of how your storage infrastructure performance and
availability
affects the rest of the application stack when used with other SolarWinds
AppStack environment enabled products.
Visit www.solarwinds.com/storage-manager to learn more
and download a free 30-day trial.