2024年5月31日发(作者：)

EVALUATION GUIDE

Storage Resource Monitor

EVALUATION GUIDE: STORAGE RESOURCE MONITOR

Storage Resource Monitor

The purpose of this document is to explain the value proposition of SolarWinds

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Storage Resource Monitor (SRM). This detailed document 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?

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) is designed to provide multi-vendor, agentless

NAS and SAN performance monitoring, as well as capacity monitoring and forecasting for your

storage devices. Quickly and easily configure a full range of custom and pre-defined alerts and

reports to help get a consolidated view of your storage solution. This can help prevent downtime

and help ensure that your storage infrastructure is running at peak performance.

Problems SRM can help you solve

If you are facing any of the following pain points, SRM may be able to help.

» 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 invest-

ments 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.

» Cross-stack IT Systems: and network data correlation to help discover and troubleshoot

issues.

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