SolarWinds Adds Dell Compellent

SolarWinds Inc., provider of IT management software, announced the SolarWinds Storage Manager, Powered by Profiler.

Now with support for Dell Compellent, Storage Manager is a complete monitoring tool for Dell arrays and a solution for implementing a multi-vendor storage strategy.

Overview:

• It gives users visibility into shared storage that is not available through other vendors’ solutions, including the management tools included with most storage arrays and the servers, switches, hosts and VM’s they are connected to.
• The company continues to reinforce its investment in storage management by extending its heterogeneous support and end-to-end monitoring to Dell Compellent storage arrays.
• In addition, the latest release enables users to launch the Target View for block storage (FC or iSCSI LUN) or file storage (NFS) shares, identifying contention on both the virtualization and storage sides; easily diagnose issues and help resolve them with more performance metrics for HP EVA, IBM SVC and IBM DS 6/8K storage arrays; alert on more performance metrics on arrays; and see storage and performance trends with configurable charting.
• SolarWinds Storage Manager was recently named the Storage Management Tools Bronze winner for the 2011 Products of the Year presented by the editors of TechTarget’s Storage Media Group, and has been nominated for the Bench Tested Product of the Year, Network Computing Awards (UK).

"For most IT departments, operating with just one type of vendor array or platform is not practical. A multi-vendor strategy allows for flexibility to address specific business needs whether it is performance, capacity or cost," said Sanjay Castelino, SolarWinds VP. "Storage Manager supports all major vendors, including Dell, EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, LSI, NetApp, Oracle (Sun), Pillar and Xiotech. It is an admin’s single pane of glass into real time physical and virtual storage data, making it easy to report, plan, troubleshoot and drill down into critical views."

"I’ve used SolarWinds Storage Manager for many years as a way to monitor the performance of our application servers, as well as the virtual and storage environments," said Jeff Conte, Network Engineer at APP Pharmaceuticals. "Throughout this time, I’ve appreciated the product enhancements along the way with its additional VMware integration, heat maps and now the Dell Compellent array support."

SolarWinds Storage Manager now supports 10 vendors and over 25 arrays.

It is available and pricing starts at $2,995, with the first year of maintenance included.