SAN Performance Monitoring

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Plan Capacity

Visualize Performance

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Troubleshoot Storage Issues

Automate SAN storage capacity planning

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SolarWinds^® Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) provides the automated storage capacity planning you need. Designed to track usage over time and identify capacity issues within an array, SRM helps simplify the SAN storage capacity planning process across your virtual and physical infrastructure.

With centralized access to growth trends, key storage metrics, and a forecast of when capacity will be reached, you can gain a deeper understanding of your storage needs, effectively plan when to add or re-allocate capacity, and feel confident making new storage purchases as you expand your SAN. Having these valuable insights into storage management across the enterprise helps you more easily forecast for storage capacity planning and business continuity decisions.

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Gain a comprehensive view of SAN performance

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With SRM as your SAN monitoring tool, you can gain visual overviews of your storage performance, allowing you to more easily monitor multiple arrays with a single dashboard, drill deeper into storage performance problems, view space consumption on storage arrays, RAID groups, and LUNs, and discover opportunities for optimization.

Gain deeper visibility across SAN infrastructure layers with AppStack^™. This powerful view is built to give you instant visibility into solution layers and can allow you to see VMs and applications dependent on any storage element when combined with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor, Virtualization Manager, and Web Performance Monitor.

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Never miss a beat with SRM alerting system and centralized reports

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A SAN monitoring tool that provides alerting solutions can help you notice and address SAN issues before the end user does. With SRM as your SAN tool, you can customize warning and critical alert threshold levels for all your storage resources in your environment. For instance, receive alerts about performance problems related to overloaded LUNs or RAID groups.

SRM offers pre-designed and custom reports to help users quickly organize and understand their SAN performance monitoring data. Useful templates include Top 10 LUNs by latency, storage pool utilization, enterprise capacity summary, free LUN report, storage asset info details, and more. Easily schedule, export, or email reports as needed.

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Get to the root of storage issues quickly with a SAN monitoring tool

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The integrated, detailed dashboards in SRM are built to help you seamlessly navigate across layers of storage and easily locate root causes of storage performance issues. With a detailed dashboard dedicated to SAN storage monitoring, you can quickly view crucial information about SAN performance and health. You can easily check metrics like latency, throughput, IOPS, and IO size. You can also focus on the relevant time, helping you identify performance bottlenecks in your storage infrastructure and troubleshoot faster.

Drilling down to determine root cause is easy with the user-friendly dashboards in SRM. CheckStorage Summary dashboard to see current alerts for storage objects that SolarWinds is monitoring. You can access any object’s details page, giving you visibility into the object’s metrics and allowing you to start troubleshooting right away.

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Do you find yourself asking…

How does SAN performance monitoring work in SRM?
What is a SAN?
Why is SAN infrastructure monitoring important?

SolarWinds Storage Resource Manager (SRM) is a powerful, user-friendly solution for your SAN performance monitoring needs. Designed to provide end-to-end, unified storage monitoring, SRM offers an extensive view of your organization's data storage health. Using SRM helps simplify monitoring across various enterprise SAN storage vendors and helps enable you to make informed decisions, troubleshoot issues, and optimize storage infrastructure performance.

SRM uses a primary poller to poll and retrieve data from your storage device and additional pollers to gather data from other locations.

SAN systems monitoring is easy with the user-friendly dashboards in SRM designed to provide performance metrics for your SAN across storage vendors, such as IBM, Nimble, Dell, Hitachi, and HPE storage arrays. SRM SAN tools offer the ability to cross-stack IT systems and data, view your entire SAN infrastructure, and receive alerts when a critical threshold is passed, providing you with deeper insight into performance issues and better enabling you to quickly isolate their root cause. SRM also helps users monitor their hardware under the Hardware Health tab.

As a SAN performance monitoring tool, SRM is built to offer access to growth trends and forecasted views, which helps simplify the storage capacity planning process. Thanks to these valuable insights and up-to-date data, you’ll know when it’s time to upgrade your storage capacity and more effectively plan resource expansion and reallocation.

SAN monitoring and SAN reporting is designed to be easier with SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor. With a fast setup, intuitive interface, and detailed reports, you can reduce unexpected downtime.

SAN performance monitoring provides a unified view of the health, performance, and capacity of multiple SAN devices in a data center, helping you minimize hardware malfunctions, network disruptions, and data loss. SAN devices monitoring also provides storage alerts and reports that you can leverage to improve the efficiency of SAN devices.

A storage area network monitoring software can provide you with up-to-date information about your storage hardware and its performance. With a powerful SAN monitoring tool, you can:

Run reports: With the help of detailed reports, you can gain a thorough understanding of your SAN infrastructure, view SAN capacity and performance metrics, get the info you need to resolve SAN performance issues quickly, and share critical data with other parties. Scheduling automated reports with SAN server monitoring software helps you streamline the process.
Gain a deeper understanding of sensor performance: A SAN monitoring tool can also provide statuses, values, and statistics for your sensors, giving you a better idea of their performance over time. With SAN server monitoring software, you can troubleshoot server performance issues as they arise, helping to reduce downtime.
Get alerts: In addition to collecting metrics, a SAN devices monitoring tool can alert you when critical thresholds are crossed, allowing you to act immediately. Storage area network monitoring software is built to alert you when a storage array is running out of space or when device latency has passed a predefined threshold so you can quickly make any necessary changes.
Make data-driven storage decisions: As you’re changing or creating underlying storage infrastructure for applications, you’ll need to know which elements are responsible for slowdowns and keep capacity and performance requirements in mind. This means knowing how much storage you need, how many I/O operations per second your network performs, and what your read/write ratio and expected I/O size are. Investing in SAN tools and consistently performing SAN infrastructure monitoring can give you this information, allowing you to make data-driven storage decisions.

Investing in a quality SAN infrastructure monitoring and devices monitoring tool can give you the insights and tools to help you better control SAN performance. With a SAN systems monitoring tool, you can more easily minimize downtime, reduce data loss, expand infrastructure, and make data-driven decisions.

SolarWinds Storage Resource Manager (SRM) is a powerful, user-friendly solution for your SAN performance monitoring needs. Designed to provide end-to-end, unified storage monitoring, SRM offers an extensive view of your organization's data storage health. Using SRM helps simplify monitoring across various enterprise SAN storage vendors and helps enable you to make informed decisions, troubleshoot issues, and optimize storage infrastructure performance.
SRM uses a primary poller to poll and retrieve data from your storage device and additional pollers to gather data from other locations.
SAN systems monitoring is easy with the user-friendly dashboards in SRM designed to provide performance metrics for your SAN across storage vendors, such as IBM, Nimble, Dell, Hitachi, and HPE storage arrays. SRM SAN tools offer the ability to cross-stack IT systems and data, view your entire SAN infrastructure, and receive alerts when a critical threshold is passed, providing you with deeper insight into performance issues and better enabling you to quickly isolate their root cause. SRM also helps users monitor their hardware under the Hardware Health tab.
As a SAN performance monitoring tool, SRM is built to offer access to growth trends and forecasted views, which helps simplify the storage capacity planning process. Thanks to these valuable insights and up-to-date data, you’ll know when it’s time to upgrade your storage capacity and more effectively plan resource expansion and reallocation.
SAN monitoring and SAN reporting is designed to be easier with SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor. With a fast setup, intuitive interface, and detailed reports, you can reduce unexpected downtime.
A storage area network, or a SAN, is a powerful network-based storage solution that allows servers to securely access shared pools of storage and data on a block level. With RAID (Redundancy Array of Independent Disks) technology, a SAN provides high data security and redundancy and offers a centralized location for storage, making it easier to monitor, secure, and manage than other storage solutions with isolated storage capacities.
Organizations use SANs to efficiently and securely manage and allocate storage resources. Using a SAN can improve application performance and availability because SANs separate administrative traffic from other traffic on your LAN.
These high-speed, independent networks are composed of a storage-plumbing tier that connects nodes and delivers device-oriented commands and a software tier. SANs contain multiple interconnected elements (often via Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, (CoE), Internet Small Computing System Interface (ISCI), or Infiniband), including:
Hosts: When accessing data stored on a SAN from a host, the SAN usually appears as a disk to end users.
Switches: Designed for high-performance networks, SAN switches are responsible for moving storage traffic within a SAN. These devices are attached to storage arrays and servers, facilitating the movement of storage traffic, and minimizing network latency and data loss.
Storage Devices: SAN data may be stored in several hard disks. However, SAN hard disks may be joined through a RAID, allowing them to act as a single storage device. Having a quality RAID monitoring tool can help you effectively troubleshoot your RAID groups and storage pools. You can also view RAID group storage space consumption with a RAID monitoring tool.
SAN performance monitoring provides a unified view of the health, performance, and capacity of multiple SAN devices in a data center, helping you minimize hardware malfunctions, network disruptions, and data loss. SAN devices monitoring also provides storage alerts and reports that you can leverage to improve the efficiency of SAN devices.
A storage area network monitoring software can provide you with up-to-date information about your storage hardware and its performance. With a powerful SAN monitoring tool, you can:
Run reports: With the help of detailed reports, you can gain a thorough understanding of your SAN infrastructure, view SAN capacity and performance metrics, get the info you need to resolve SAN performance issues quickly, and share critical data with other parties. Scheduling automated reports with SAN server monitoring software helps you streamline the process.
Gain a deeper understanding of sensor performance: A SAN monitoring tool can also provide statuses, values, and statistics for your sensors, giving you a better idea of their performance over time. With SAN server monitoring software, you can troubleshoot server performance issues as they arise, helping to reduce downtime.
Get alerts: In addition to collecting metrics, a SAN devices monitoring tool can alert you when critical thresholds are crossed, allowing you to act immediately. Storage area network monitoring software is built to alert you when a storage array is running out of space or when device latency has passed a predefined threshold so you can quickly make any necessary changes.
Make data-driven storage decisions: As you’re changing or creating underlying storage infrastructure for applications, you’ll need to know which elements are responsible for slowdowns and keep capacity and performance requirements in mind. This means knowing how much storage you need, how many I/O operations per second your network performs, and what your read/write ratio and expected I/O size are. Investing in SAN tools and consistently performing SAN infrastructure monitoring can give you this information, allowing you to make data-driven storage decisions.

Investing in a quality SAN infrastructure monitoring and devices monitoring tool can give you the insights and tools to help you better control SAN performance. With a SAN systems monitoring tool, you can more easily minimize downtime, reduce data loss, expand infrastructure, and make data-driven decisions.

"With SRM, I was able to solve severe disk bottleneck issues. I was able to pinpoint which LUN was causing the issue."

IT SysAdmin

Medium Enterprise Construction Company

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