SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor reports
and alerts on multiple vendor storage devices
for performance and volume capacity,
storage pools, LUNs, and disks.
This performance and capacity information
is easily available through SRM's intuitive UI
and customizable web console.
SRM uses SMI-S, SNMP, and embedded API communication
to retrieve information from supported arrays.
Arrays need to be configured for use with SRM.
How they are monitored varies depending on the manufacturer
and array model.
In most cases, arrays can be monitored using an external
or embedded SMI-S provider or REST API.
Some providers are enabled by default,
others need to be enabled manually.
After an array is configured, it can be added to SRM
for monitoring using the Add Storage Device wizard.
The Storage Home or Summary page provides
the main view of all resources
and a high-level overview of all monitored storage objects,
including alerts and events.
All Storage Objects provides a comprehensive
look at all the storage objects in your environment.
By default, arrays are grouped by vendor
and can be customized as needed.
You can expand on any vendor
and drill down to an array to access details.
Storage Objects by Performance Risk provides a list
of all storage objects currently being monitored by SRM,
and objects with the poorest performance
are shown at the top and are sorted by highest latency.
Storage Objects by Capacity Risk displays objects
already at full capacity,
followed by devices approaching full capacity.
Usable Capacity Summary shows expandable fill charts
for all arrays and clusters monitored by SRM.
These indicate how much of the total usable capacity
is currently in use and how much remains.
Click on an array or cluster to open the Details page.
Array Details displays hardware and software information,
including the serial number
and firmware version of the array.
Array Status summarizes data metrics
for the current array cluster using multiple charts.
Performance Summary displays stacked
performance metric charts.
Use the cursor to compare the stacked values
for all metrics for a specific polling time.
SRM also provides hardware health monitoring,
offering immediate insight into hardware issues
in your storage environment.
Monitoring hardware health on storage arrays gives access
to the status and values of onboard sensors,
such as fan, power supply, temperature,
and disk health information.
From the Array Details page,
you can click on a storage pool
to access the Pool Details page.
Here you can see status, capacity,
and performance for the selected storage pool,
as well as an IOPS Performance Chart
that will show you the performance
of the storage pool alongside the top LUNs
that belong to that pool.
Storage Resource Monitor is one of several
SolarWinds products that is part of AppStack.
AppStack is a feature that automatically correlates
the storage, virtual, and application layers
to offer you a contextualized view of your environment.
It provides an in-depth perspective
to help identify the root cause of performance
and availability issues.
When SRM is used as a stand-alone product,
AppStack displays the status and relationships
between arrays, storage pools, NAS volumes, and LUNs.
When SRM is integrated with other Orion Platform products,
such as Server & Application Monitor
and Virtualization Manager,
the AppStack view will show relationships
to datastores, applications, physical and virtual machines,
and their volumes.
Clicking Performance Analyzer takes you
to the PerfStack Analysis dashboard
and will automatically pre-populate relevant metrics.
In this case, the pool metrics.
This dashboard enables you to correlate
historical data from SRM
and many other SolarWinds products in a single view.
This view makes it easy to troubleshoot issues,
create ad-hoc reports,
and make data-driven decisions on infrastructure changes.
Drag-and-drop performance metrics, events,
and log data into a chart to perform deep analysis
and troubleshoot issues in your environment.
For more information on Storage Resource Monitor,
visit SolarWinds.com.