SolarWinds Storage Manager manages arrays and fibre channel switches from top-tier storage vendors.

• Provides a unified view into the performance and status of your storage environment
• Delivers real-time, agentless NAS and SAN performance monitoring to help prevent downtime
• Generates policy-based alerts on status and usage thresholds

SolarWinds Storage Manager provides comprehensive storage performance monitoring and alerting to ensure that your storage network is always running at peak performance. Via an intuitive web interface, Storage Manager gives you a unified view into the performance and status of your storage environment. Using agentless storage performance monitoring technology, Storage Manager enables you to identify how storage resources are currently being used and how they will be used in the future—without impacting network and device performance.

Storage Manager delivers monitoring data on volumes, RAID groups/storage pools, disks, initiator, target ports, operational status for the array, processors, and all the associations between each entity. With its powerful NAS and SAN performance monitoring capabilities, Storage Manager helps you manage space consumption on RAID Groups, map storage volumes back to the host and understand how these volumes are load balanced across each storage processor on the array. This gives you valuable insight into storage utilization across the enterprise so that you can identify the impact of a failure and trend and forecast for capacity planning and business continuity decisions.

Storage Manager enables you to quickly and easily configure a full range of custom and pre-defined alerts. From a single interface, you can easily set thresholds, alerts, filters, and notifications. These alerts help you recognize and correct issues before your users experience performance degradation or availability issues.

• Automates the collection of storage capacity planning data
• Makes it easy to view storage growth rates, project when storage capacity will be reached, and forecast costs
• Tracks performance over time to identify hot spots, peak hours, and potential outages

Storage capacity planning is a particularly arduous task, especially in a virtualized infrastructure. It’s a task that typically involves manual creation of complex spreadsheets. Now you can say goodbye to those spreadsheets forever. SolarWinds Storage Manager automates the collection of forecasting data and makes it easy to view growth rates, project when capacity will be reached and forecast costs and budgetary requirements. In addition to simplifying storage capacity planning, Storage Manager’s centralized monitoring tracks performance over time to identify hot spots, peak hours, and potential outages—providing the information you need to avoid outages due to full disk errors.

Storage Manager even supports your tiered storage strategy by classifying data according to frequency of access—making it easy to determine which data should be stored on a top-tier storage device and which data can be moved to tape.

• Automatically maps VMs, applications, and logical connections to your physical storage environment
• Delivers end-to-end visibility across all resources in your virtualized infrastructure
• Identify the individual spindle serving a virtual machine and all other VMs on the same spindle for faster troubleshooting

How do you map VMs, applications, and logical connections to the actual physical infrastructure when an application is running on one physical server today and on a different one next week? Problem solved! The VM to physical storage mapping feature in SolarWinds Storage Manager automatically maps VMs, applications, and logical connections to the physical storage environment in order to provide you with a complete view across all resources in your virtualized infrastructure. Storage Manager is the only intuitive, web-based storage management solution that combines VM to physical storage mapping with storage monitoring, reporting, alerting, and forecasting across the entire multi-vendor storage stack for NAS and SAN systems.

• Understand how your virtual infrastructure is mapped to your LUNs
• Identify which VMs are using the most storage I/O and the most storage capacity
• Determine if your LUN is being affected by other LUNs on the same RAID group or pool
• Get more information related to your LUN groups using the user-defined LUN grouping—create new LUN groups, view LUN group information in the console, and leverage the groups for reporting

Storage LUN views provide a single pane of glass for a LUN and all related infrastructure, both physical and virtual, allowing you to diagnose performance issues. You can quickly determine if storage is truly the reason for poor performance of a VM. If you determine that the culprit is another VM or LUN, you can drill down and continue to diagnose the issue within the tool.

The new storage LUN views are the perfect integration point between SolarWinds Virtualization Manager and Storage Manager. Virtualization Manager is linked to the LUN view from the Cluster, ESX®, VM or datastore view, enabling you to see the storage under your VM infrastructure, putting you just a click away from total visibility.

Trend and forecast thin pool utilization for EMC VMAX

• See utilization data critical to applications and virtualization that EMC doesn’t readily provide
• Trend and forecast thin pool growth to plan for capacity and avoid critical storage outages

Storage Manager provides access directly to the following objects inside EMC’s FAST VP

• Disk Groups: collection of Solid State Drives (SSD) and other physical disks
• Virtual Pool: look at pooled storage capacity formed from disk groups
• FAST VP Tiers: association of a tier with the previously mentioned pooled capacity; multiple pools of like drive type & RAID protection type can be associated with a single FAST VP Tier
• FAST VP Policies: auto-tiering policy specifying how much of each tier can be utilized
• Storage groups: collection of host LUN

Apart from providing insight into storage tier configurations for EMC VNX, Storage Manager now offers some of the existing reports to reflect the simple configuration options available on VNXL

• Physical drives
• Storage pool
• LUN
• Tiering policy of the LUN

Get complete visibility into Storage Manager server performance metrics and monitor critical information, such as:

• CPU Utilization
• Physical Memory (RAM) consumption
• Disk Usage
• Collection List—get a complete list of agents that are waiting for collection
• Warning information—get a detailed explanation of all warning messages that are generated

Drill down into Storage Manager services and look at resources that show memory consumption and Java™ Heap Memory. Increase the memory for your Storage Manager Server services, agents, or proxy agents.

Get visibility into the current state of the Storage Manager database and look at database size, largest table and size, and date of the last index rebuild information. In addition, our storage management software provides other information, such as process lists that show all processes in a specific database and a list of all crashed tables.

Storage Manager also provides various metrics related to health status, such as device type, proxy agents, collection jobs queue, help and support, and more.