SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor
Storage Resource Monitor
Storage Visibility Across Every Vendor, in One View
What is a storage resource monitor?
A storage resource monitor is software that tracks the health, performance, capacity, and availability of storage infrastructure such as SANs, NAS systems, storage arrays, LUNs, and disks. SolarWinds® Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) gives IT teams agentless, multi-vendor visibility so they can detect bottlenecks, forecast capacity needs, and troubleshoot storage performance issues before they impact applications.
Explore Storage Resource Monitor features
Resolve storage issues faster with unified monitoring
Monitor performance, capacity, and utilization across multi-vendor storage arrays from a single dashboard so your team can respond fast and plan storage growth with accuracy.
Capacity Planning
Forecast storage capacity issues with confidence
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor collects storage capacity data and tracks usage over time to identify capacity issues across your storage environment. Automated capacity forecasting projects when arrays, pools, LUNs, and volumes will reach their limits so you can plan ahead with confidence and avoid unexpected storage outages.
- Track storage consumption trends across arrays, pools, LUNs, and volumes
- Forecast when storage capacity will be reached based on historical growth
- Generate out-of-the-box capacity reports to for compliance and budget planning
Reporting
Generate the storage reports you need in minutes
Choose from prebuilt storage reports or build your own to fulfill almost any storage resource monitoring criteria. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor helps ensure your capacity reports fit the exact criteria you need to prove compliance, track utilization, and document storage health across multi-vendor environments.
- Access prebuilt storage reports for executive summaries, storage performance, status, and more
- Create custom templates for vendor-specific or environment-specific requirements
- Generate web-based reports showing performance data for volumes, LUNs, pools, and arrays
SAN Monitoring
See every SAN array in a single view
Gain a comprehensive view of SAN performance across multi-vendor arrays from one dashboard. Drill into storage performance problems, view space consumption on storage arrays, RAID groups, and LUNs, and discover optimization opportunities. Real-time hotspot detection surfaces I/O bottlenecks so you can isolate root causes before they affect applications.
- Monitor multiple arrays from a single dashboard with visual overviews
- Drill into RAID groups, LUNs, and array capacity to pinpoint performance issues
- Track IOPS, latency, and throughput to identify I/O hotspots across SAN infrastructure
NAS Monitoring
Identify NAS performance risks before they escalate
Get a unified, at-a-glance view of key NAS storage capacity metrics across multi-vendor devices. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor highlights storage performance risks and simplifies troubleshooting so your team can accelerate resolution and prevent capacity surprises before they impact end users.
- Monitor NAS capacity metrics across multi-vendor devices in a single console
- Highlight performance risks and capacity thresholds with automated alerts
- Visualize NAS health and utilization to accelerate troubleshooting
Storage Performance Visibility
Use PerfStack™ to get near real-time insights
Correlate storage health and performance using PerfStack to resolve issues faster, reduce downtime, and improve decision-making across your storage infrastructure.
- Support faster decision-making with near real-time storage performance metrics
- Correlate storage metrics across arrays, pools, and LUNs on a single PerfStack timeline
- View performance metrics alongside alerts and events
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How storage monitoring works
Understand the mechanics behind SRM's multi-vendor monitoring and root-cause analysis.
SRM supports leading storage vendors
Monitor storage arrays from Dell, EMC, NetApp, Pure Storage, Hitachi, HPE, IBM, and more from a single console with agentless polling.
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Storage monitoring FAQs
What should a storage monitoring tool monitor?
What should a storage monitoring tool monitor?
A storage monitoring tool should track health, performance, capacity, and availability across SAN, NAS, and direct-attached storage. Key metrics include IOPS, latency, throughput, queue length, disk utilization, capacity allocation, and pool and volume health. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor monitors arrays, RAID groups, LUNs, volumes, storage pools, disks, and controllers from vendors including Dell, Dell EMC, Hitachi, HPE, IBM, NetApp, and Pure Storage.
How does storage capacity planning help prevent outages?
How does storage capacity planning help prevent outages?
Storage capacity planning tracks consumption trends and forecasts when arrays, pools, LUNs, and volumes will reach their limits. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor provides historical and forecasting capacity views. Automated alerts fire before thresholds are breached, and out-of-the-box and custom reports provide teams with the right data to anticipate storage needs, plan budgets and prevent unexpected capacity outages from disrupting critical applications.
How can you forecast future storage capacity requirements?
How can you forecast future storage capacity requirements?
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor collects capacity data over time and projects when storage objects will run out of space. Automated capacity forecasting uses historical growth patterns to predict when arrays, pools, LUNs, and volumes will reach capacity limits. Configurable alerts trigger at warning and critical levels so your team can plan storage growth, right-size infrastructure proactively, and avoid reacting to capacity emergencies.
What metrics are important for monitoring storage performance?
What metrics are important for monitoring storage performance?
Key storage performance metrics include total IOPS, I/O response time, service time, queue length, throughput, and disk utilization. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor tracks these metrics across arrays, RAID groups, storage pools, LUNs, and disks in real time. Hotspot detection surfaces I/O bottlenecks so administrators can identify which storage resource is causing contention before application performance degrades.
How does storage monitoring work in a hybrid IT environment?
How does storage monitoring work in a hybrid IT environment?
In a hybrid IT environment, storage spans on-premises SANs, NAS, and cloud-connected storage. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor provides agentless monitoring across multi-vendor arrays regardless of location. When integrated with SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, AppStack and PerfStack correlate storage health with application, server, network, and virtualization performance to isolate root causes across the entire hybrid stack.
How can storage monitoring tools detect storage hotspots?
How can storage monitoring tools detect storage hotspots?
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor detects I/O hotspots in real time using performance monitoring and threshold-based alerting. When IOPS, latency, or throughput exceed configured thresholds, SRM highlights the affected array, pool, LUN, or disk and alerts your team. PerfStack correlation lets you overlay storage metrics with application and server performance data on a single timeline to determine whether the hotspot is the root cause of an application slowdown.
Features of the SolarWinds® Orion® module, Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) are also available as part of Observability Self-Hosted. Contact Sales for a custom quote.
