Challenges
- Top storage challenges are:
- Understanding storage performance bottlenecks
- Multi-vendor/array monitoring/alerting/reporting
- Correlating storage performance to VM & application
Use Case
- Found out about Storage Resource Monitor because their current job uses other SolarWinds products.
- Monitors > 5 storage devices with Storage Resource Monitor.
Results
- Purchased SolarWinds over other storage management tools because of:
- Price
- Integration with other Solarwinds’ products
- Alerting/Reporting
- Saved 10-20 man-hours a month managing their storage environment using Storage Resource Monitor.
- Is able to identify and troubleshoot storage issues 20-40% faster with Storage Resource Monitor.
- Finds correlate database performance with storage performance (i.e. IOPS, latency, throughput, I/O size, and read/write mix) most important in a storage monitoring tool.
