SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

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16 Reviews and Ratings

What is SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)?

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor is a data center performance monitoring solution from Austin-based company SolarWinds. It features a unified data storage management system with end-to-end monitoring and automatic capacity forecasting.

Categories & Use Cases

Storage Management

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Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM).

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Finance and Insurance

42.9%

3 installations of 7

#2 most frequent

Construction

14.3%

1 installation of 7

#3 most frequent

Retail Trade

14.3%

1 installation of 7

Rob Bates View profile

Public & Private Cloud Senior Engineer in Information Technology at Creditsafe (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

Granular visibility of IOPS and IO.
Capacity Planning.
The ability to link storage to databases through Orion DPA.
Alerting and Reporting.

Cons

Issues getting SMI working correctly to monitor Compellents through SRM.
The ability to break down alerts to a more granular level.

Return on Investment

Before we purchased SRM, we have very little visibility of the performance of our disks, which would lead to issues
Single pane of glass dashboards allow us to spot issues quickly
Capacity forecasts allow us to also tackle storage issues before we hit a point of no return

Alternatives Considered

Nagios, PRTG Network Monitor and ManageEngine OpManager

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, VMware Horizon (formerly VMware View), VMware vCenter Server

Ryhlen Schoeberl View profile

Server Administrator in Information Technology at Vast Broadband (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

Easy to use interface.
Easy to set up.
Integrates with our other Solarwinds products.
Works with a lot of different storage arrays.

Cons

I have not found any cons of this product

Return on Investment

We are able to plan ahead for storage expansion. This allows us to decide what we need and hold out for special discounts instead of needing to purchase right away.
We are able to move our systems to faster storage if they need it. This keeps systems the most productive

Other Software Used

Windows Server, Juniper Ethernet Switches, Microsoft Office 2016

Usability

Richard Phillips View profile

Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at Cerner Corporation (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

Asset inventory for storage
Predicting the future usage
Performance metrics
Revealing the internal statistics such as temperatures and hardware condition

Cons

The list of devices covers the most popular, but adding more types of devices is always helpful
Device types make it difficult to connect some times (on the vendor side) but the product does a good job, configuration could be easier for setting up devices.

Return on Investment

With SRM we have proactively monitored devices to stay ahead of data growth
SRM makes monitoring of internal asset condition much easier
SRM make monitoring of live statistics much easier.

Other Software Used

Wireshark, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, Lansweeper

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

LUN-level capacity use
LUN-level performance data
Capacity forecast for each LUN

Cons

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

Return on Investment

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

David Yezersky View profile

Sr. Storage/Sever Administrator in Information Technology at GenRe (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

The SolarwWinds Storage Resource Monitor does good reporting and alerting to an issue. Our service center which has live monitoring uses the tool for real-time monitoring of events. It then creates tickets to action various alarms.
Real-time size monitoring of especially thin storage is always necessary to any thin VMware environment.
Great historical graph representations of storage related events. Ability to create performance graphs and monitor changes.

Cons

Currently there is no support for XtremIO storage. So we have to monitor that separately.
It could provide proactive measures to fix any Storage or SIOC related bottlenecks in the environment.

Return on Investment

Real-time monitoring and alerting to surpass those of native vSphere and in some occasions, better than manufacturer written software.
Historical monitoring of environment with charts and graphs to assist with ever changing environment loads.

Alternatives Considered

Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo)

Other Software Used

Turbonomic (formerly VMTurbo)

ManageEngine OpManager

Nagios Core

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SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

What is SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)?

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Who Buys & Uses SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)

Most Frequent Users

Finance and Insurance

Construction

Retail Trade

Most Frequent Users

Small Businesses

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Most Frequent Users

United States of America

Japan

Pakistan