Automated storage capacity planning takes the guesswork (and the legwork) out of tracking usage over time to help identify capacity issues in the array. Network storage monitoring software like SolarWinds® Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) allows you to create predefined and custom reports to see performance metrics and capacity trends in your storage environment, including both physical and virtual infrastructure.
Go deeper into the performance of your VM datastores and trace dynamic relationships between storage elements to pinpoint capacity issues. Generate out-of-the-box, web-based reports to see real-time performance data for server volumes, NAS volumes, LUNs, and storage pools by capacity and have a forecasted view of when you’ll reach capacity.
Being able to visualize performance and capacity trends is critical for locating and resolving storage-related issues. Because SRM has the capability to support multiple devices and vendors, it can provide real-time, unified visibility for all layers of your storage infrastructure. With Storage Resource Monitor, you can set up alerts and reports through the dashboard for further analytical insights.
For additional visibility, you can also leverage SRM's end-to-end mapping to see how your storage devices and servers are connected. Viewable in the AppStack™ dashboard, mapping enables visualizations of the relationship between storage-related objects, or relationships with objects from other Orion® Platform modules.
To help ensure storage issues don’t affect application availability and performance, you need network storage device monitoring across your IT infrastructure. Understanding the health of your storage devices from different vendors can be challenging, so SRM offers a centralized alerting system to unify visibility into all your storage devices.
SRM is part of the Orion Platform, so you’ll have a centralized system for handling alerts, including those for other SolarWinds products, for seamless end-to-end IT monitoring. This single dashboard is built to provide insight into key storage metrics, such as usable capacity and raw disk summary, to highlight risks or issues.
Using SRM, you can set up pre-built alerts and warning/critical thresholds for individual devices to help ensure you’ll be notified before network disk storage health issues evolve into complex problems. Easy-to-understand alerts show which resources are triggering the alert, when it was triggered, and what specifically caused the trigger.
SRM’s centralized reporting is built to help you locate and resolve storage-related issues more quickly, so you can better reduce latency and downtime. With SRM’s reporting tool, you can create predefined and custom reports to see performance and capacity trends in your storage environment. Out-of-the-box reports can include data such as enterprise capacity summary, RAID/storage pool group utilization, thin provisioning, free LUNS, asset information, and more.
Using the Orion Platform, you can customize your views in a centralized dashboard to see storage data alongside other key IT infrastructure data. Use charts, tables, and lists for easy-to-read insights. You can also schedule, email, and export your reports as CSV or HTML files.
Performance bottlenecks in the storage environment can be a serious threat to application and data center performance. With SRM as your network storage monitoring software, you can help improve storage capacity visibility and troubleshoot storage issues with ease and efficiency.
SRM widgets display a yellow or red background for monitored values that have reached warnings or critical levels. To view all objects that have triggered alerts and need attention, go to the All Active Alerts widget (My Dashboards > Storage > Storage Summary). By moving the cursor over the triggering object name, you’ll be able to see display information and any additional issues for the alert. Clicking on the name of the triggering object will open the details page.
Go to the Performance Summary widget for a more detailed view of the triggering object in relation to other metrics. Hovering the cursor over the chart will display all available performance metrics.
Do you find yourself asking…
Network storage describes devices or locations used to retain data across local area network (LAN) connections. Network storage is essential to an organization because it backs up critical files to a centralized location, where users can then easily access the data. Effective network storage systems can save time, ensure data security, and help users conduct business more efficiently.
Because of the LAN connection, devices must be connected to the network to access the stored data. If the network is down or slow, connected users won't be able to access their files. Storage capacity can also impact performance. Network storage devices monitoring helps ensure optimal storage performance.
There are two standard types, Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN).
NAS is a file-based, shared storage for a LAN that uses a standard Ethernet connection. A NAS server will typically contain multiple hard drives and provide a large amount of centralized storage space, which means individual connected devices can access the same data. Common for both organizations and home networks, NAS does not require extensive maintenance aside from regular network attached storage monitoring. It is a flexible choice for organizations, as businesses can scale up the NAS system quickly when adding new users and devices.
NAS is mainly used for:
NAS supports RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5, which helps make your data safer. Proper network attached storage monitoring will help prevent this scenario, but if data stored on one drive becomes compromised, it can be recovered from another drive. NAS devices also cost less than normal servers and have low energy consumption.
More complex and costly than NAS, a SAN is a type of LAN that can handle large data transfers and bulk storage. Typically used on business networks, a SAN uses high-end servers and high-capacity disk arrays and requires dedicated cabling like Fiber Channel or Ethernet-based iSCSI. As a result, SAN is best suited for high-performance applications like:
Due to its complexity and need for high network speed, SAN requires a specialized IT skillset and careful network storage device monitoring. However, it’s highly scalable as servers and storage devices may be added independently of one another.
Network storage describes devices or locations used to retain data across local area network (LAN) connections. Network storage is essential to an organization because it backs up critical files to a centralized location, where users can then easily access the data. Effective network storage systems can save time, ensure data security, and help users conduct business more efficiently.
Because of the LAN connection, devices must be connected to the network to access the stored data. If the network is down or slow, connected users won't be able to access their files. Storage capacity can also impact performance. Network storage devices monitoring helps ensure optimal storage performance.
There are two standard types, Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN).
NAS is a file-based, shared storage for a LAN that uses a standard Ethernet connection. A NAS server will typically contain multiple hard drives and provide a large amount of centralized storage space, which means individual connected devices can access the same data. Common for both organizations and home networks, NAS does not require extensive maintenance aside from regular network attached storage monitoring. It is a flexible choice for organizations, as businesses can scale up the NAS system quickly when adding new users and devices.
NAS is mainly used for:
NAS supports RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5, which helps make your data safer. Proper network attached storage monitoring will help prevent this scenario, but if data stored on one drive becomes compromised, it can be recovered from another drive. NAS devices also cost less than normal servers and have low energy consumption.
More complex and costly than NAS, a SAN is a type of LAN that can handle large data transfers and bulk storage. Typically used on business networks, a SAN uses high-end servers and high-capacity disk arrays and requires dedicated cabling like Fiber Channel or Ethernet-based iSCSI. As a result, SAN is best suited for high-performance applications like:
Due to its complexity and need for high network speed, SAN requires a specialized IT skillset and careful network storage device monitoring. However, it’s highly scalable as servers and storage devices may be added independently of one another.
Storage Resource Monitor
Visualize storage performance and monitor multi-vendor storage arrays from EMC, NetApp, Dell, and others
Automate capacity planning with improved network-attached storage monitoring
Get notified about issues with your devices, LUNs, storage pools/RAID groups, CIFS shares, and more with centralized alerting
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