SolarWinds Extends Multi-Vendor Storage Management Array Support

SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC, announced extended multi-vendor support in SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM), which provides IT with the necessary insight into storage resources and the potential performance impact on VMs and applications that are dependent on storage elements.

SRM will support additional EMC Corp., Hitachi Data Systems Corp., Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP, and IBM Corp. storage array families and provide monitoring capabilities for hierarchical storage pools.

“IT pros, more often than not, find themselves utilizing mixed storage system environments, and while this can provide additional flexibility, it can also mean an increase in the complexity and, ultimately, cost of management,” said Nikki Jennings, group VP, product strategy, SolarWinds. “With SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor, we aim to help ease these pain points in multi-system storage environments by providing seamless heterogeneous monitoring and insight through one management dashboard at a price organizations of all sizes can afford.“

SRM provides IT pros with single-pane-of-glass visibility into their storage infrastructure by monitoring storage performance, isolating hotspots in multi-vendor SAN and NAS solutions and automating storage capacity planning and reporting. It also integrates with SolarWinds Virtualization Manager and Server & Application Monitor for visibility from application to virtualization to storage.

With the latest version of SRM, IT pros can:

• Address performance problems on storage devices, including EMC Isilon; Hitachi Data Systems AMS, USP VM, USPV, VSP, HUS 100 Block-Side, and HUS VM; HP StorageWorks XP; and IBM Spectrum Virtualize (Vxxx and SVC).
• See multiple pool layers when a storage array has more than one logical storage container, identify the relationships between the layers and understand the pool capacity through its hierarchical storage pool support.

SolarWinds Storage Resource Manager pricing starts at $2,695 and includes the first year of maintenance.