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SolarWinds IT Management Glossary

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What is Storage Administration

Storage administration is the practice of managing storage systems. Storage administration includes setting a performance baseline, using tools to monitor short-term and long-term storage performance against the baseline. Short-term anomalies in storage performance may be indicative of an unexpected change or fault, and can usually be investigated and corrected as they occur. Long-term storage performance changes are more indicative of growth such as more users, new applications and the varying demands of cyclical business cycles. Attention to long-term performance changes are often used as the basis for storage capacity planning.

SolarWinds FREE Tools Related to Storage Administration

SAN Monitor

Quickly and easily monitor EMC®, Dell®, IBM®, and Sun® StorageTek™ storage arrays! Our free SAN Monitor delivers the real-time visibility you need to stay steps ahead of infrastructure evils that threaten to slow storage performance.

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SolarWinds Products Related to Storage Administration

Storage Manager

Storage Manager makes it easy to manage the performance and growth of your multi-vendor storage environment. With end-to-end mapping of your physical and virtual infrastructure, Storage Manager delivers the comprehensive view into storage health that you need to troubleshoot problems quickly. Learn More »