ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE
Storage Resource Monitor
Version 2020.2
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page 2 ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE: STORAGE RESOURCE MONITOR Table of Contents
Introduction 10
Introduction to Storage Resource Monitor 10
SRM architecture 11
Licensing Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) 11
Add arrays to SRM 13
Add arrays to SRM 13
Supported arrays (A - H) 16
Monitor Dell EMC Compellent arrays in SRM 16
Monitor Dell EMC EqualLogic PS series arrays in SRM 17
Monitor Dell EMC PowerVault MD3xxx arrays in SRM 17
Monitor Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4xxx/5xxx (now Quantum QXS-4) arrays in SRM 17
Monitor EMC Data Domain arrays in SRM 18
Monitor EMC Isilon arrays in SRM 18
Monitor EMC Symmetrix VMAX / VMAXe / DMX-4 arrays in SRM 19
Monitor EMC Unity arrays in SRM 19
Monitor EMC VNX / Clariion arrays in SRM 19
Monitor EMC VMAX3 and VMAX All Flash Family (HYPERMAX OS) arrays in SRM 20
Monitor EMC VNX NAS Gateway / Celerra arrays in SRM 20
Monitor EMC XtremIO arrays in SRM 21
Monitor HDS (External Provider) arrays in SRM 21
Monitor HDS (Onboard Provider) arrays in SRM 21
Monitor HPE 3PAR / StoreServ arrays in SRM 21
Monitor HPE P2xxx/MSA arrays in SRM 22
Monitor HPE StorageWorks XP (External Provider) arrays in SRM 22
Monitor HPE StorageWorks XP (Onboard Provider) arrays in SRM 22
Monitor Huawei OceanStor Dorado arrays in SRM 22
Monitor Huawei OceanStor V3 / V5 (External) arrays in SRM 23
Monitor Huawei OceanStor V3/V5 array with onboard provider arrays in SRM 23
page 3 Supported arrays (I - Z) 23
Monitor IBM DS3xxx/DS4xxx/DS5xxx arrays in SRM 24
Monitor IBM DS 8xxx arrays in SRM 24
Monitor IBM FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R arrays in SRM 24
Monitor IBM N Series arrays in SRM 24
Monitor IBM SVC / V9000 / V7000 / V5000 / V3700 arrays in SRM 25
Monitor IBM XIV in SRM 25
Monitor Infinidat Infinibox arrays in SRM 25
Monitor Kaminario K2 arrays in SRM 25
Monitor LSI arrays in SRM 26
Monitor NetApp E- and EF-Series arrays 26
Monitor NetApp Filer (Direct Polling) arrays in SRM 26
Monitor NetApp 7-Mode and Clustered Data ONTAP arrays in SRM using the NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager 26
Monitor Nimble Storage arrays in SRM 27
Monitor Pure Storage arrays in SRM 27
Configure your storage arrays for SRM 28
Manage arrays, providers, and credentials in SRM 29
Manage arrays 30
Manage providers 30
Manage credentials 30
Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM 30
Unmanage and remanage an array in SRM 33
EMC XtremIO and Pure Storage capacity savings technologies 33
Administer 35
Administer SRM 35
Log in to the Orion Web Console 35
Views and widgets in SRM 36
Views 36
Widgets 36
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Manage SRM settings 37
Change global SRM settings 38
Change object-specific SRM settings 38
Edit storage object properties in SRM 39
Edit an individual storage object 39
Edit multiple storage arrays 40
Edit array polling frequencies 40
Manage thresholds for SRM 42
Set SRM thresholds 43
Set SRM thresholds for specific storage objects 44
Set dynamic baseline thresholds 44
Monitor hardware health for SRM 45
SRM hardware health metrics 45
SRM hardware health widgets 47
Enable hardware health monitoring for SRM 47
Enable or disable hardware health monitoring for an array 48
Enable or disable individual hardware health sensors 48
Use custom thresholds for hardware health 48
Change the hardware health temperature units 49
Hardware Health Overview 49
Hardware Details 49
Hardware Health 50
Current Hardware Health 50
Storage Controller monitoring 51
Storage Controller widgets 51
Storage Controller Load Distribution 51
Storage Controller Details 52
Storage Controller Ports List 52
Storage Controller Port Details 53
Top 10 Storage Controller Ports by Total IOPS 53
page 5 Use alerts with SRM 53
Run reports in SRM 54
Schedule reports 54
Solutions 56
SRM solutions 56
Use SRM with SRM Profiler 56
Prerequisites 56
The Storage Manager Integration module 56
Which arrays are supported by SRM and SRM Profiler? 57
Reclaim your license from SRM 59
Authentication between SRM and SRM Profiler 59
Integrate SRM and SRM Profiler 60
Disable integration between SRM and SRM Profiler 60
Key licensing scenarios when SRM Profiler and SRM are integrated 61
Add an array to the SRM Orion module 61
Add an array to the SRM Profiler module 61
License Capacity 62
Use Additional Polling Engines with SRM 62
Install and configure an Additional Polling Engine (APE) 62
Use an additional web server with SRM 63
Requirements 63
Install an Additional Web Server 63
Use AppStack with SRM 63
Use PerfStack™ with SRM 65
Create Performance Analysis dashboards 65
Share Performance Analysis projects 68
Troubleshooting 68
Map your storage environment with SRM and other Orion modules 69
Automatic end-to-end mapping 69
Automatic end-to-end mapping of your physical servers 69
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Automatic end-to-end mapping of virtual servers using VMware or Hyper V 70
Manual end-to-end mapping 70
Map a volume 70
Edit a volume mapping 71
Unmap a volume 71
The Orion Platform 72
Manage Orion Web Console user accounts 72
Use alerts to monitor your IPAM environment 72
Manage the Orion Web Console 73
License Orion Platform products 73
What can I do in the web-based License Manager? 74
Manage reports in the Orion Web Console 74
High Availability in SolarWinds products 75
How does SolarWinds High Availability work? 75
Widgets 77
SRM widgets 77
Add a widget to a view 78
SRM widgets (A - C) 79
All Active Alerts on Storage Objects or Active Alerts on this... 79
Aggregated NAS Volume Capacity 79
All Active Alerts on Storage Objects or Active Alerts on this... 79
All Storage Objects 79
Array Details 80
Array Polling Details 80
Array Status 81
Arrays on this Server 82
Capacity Summary 82
Custom Properties for File Shares 83
Custom Properties for LUNs 83
Custom Properties for Pools 83
page 7 Custom Properties for Storage Arrays 83
Custom Properties for Storage Providers 84
Custom Properties for Volumes 84
Custom Properties for VServers 84
SRM widgets (D - M) 85
Disks on this Array or Cluster 85
File Share Details 85
Free LUNs 85
Getting Started Monitoring File Storage for EMC VNX Arrays 85
IO Size 86
IOPS Performance 86
IOPS Performance per Related LUN or NAS Volume 86
Latency Histogram for LUNs or NAS volumes 86
Latency Performance 87
Latency Performance per Related LUN or NAS Volume 87
LUN Details 87
LUN Masking 89
LUNs by Performance 89
Management 90
SRM widgets (N - S) 90
NAS CIFS/SMB Shares 90
NAS NFS Exports 91
NAS Volumes by Performance 92
Performance Comparison 92
Performance Summary 92
Raw Disk Capacity Summary 93
Read/Write IOPS Ratio / Cache Hit Ratio 94
Server Details 94
Server Volumes by Capacity 94
Servers on this... 95
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Storage Objects by Capacity Risk 95
Storage Objects by Performance Risk 96
Storage Pool Capacity Summary 96
Storage Pool Details 97
SRM widgets (T - V) 98
Thick LUNs (by Capacity) 98
Thick NAS Volumes (by Capacity) 99
Thick Storage Pools (by Capacity) 99
Thin LUNs (by Capacity) 100
Thin NAS Volumes (by Capacity) 100
Thin Storage Pools (by Capacity) 101
Throughput Performance 101
Top XX LUNs by Total IOPS 101
Top XX NAS Volumes by Total IOPS 102
Usable Capacity Summary 102
NAS Volume Details 102
Vserver Details 103
Vserver Management 103
Vservers on this Cluster 103
page 9 Introduction
Introduction to Storage Resource Monitor
SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) monitors performance and capacity of your storage arrays, helping you locate and resolve storage related issues. SRM supports multiple devices and vendors, providing real-time, unified visibility for all layers of your storage infrastructure.
l For a complete list of supported devices, see Add arrays to SRM.
l For information on installing or upgrading SolarWinds Orion products such as SRM, see the Orion Platform Products Installation and Upgrade Guide article.
l See also the Getting Started Guide for SRM.
This administration guide contains the following sections:
Add arrays to SRM Enable the arrays in your storage environment to be discovered and monitored by SRM.
Administer SRM As soon as devices are detected, data shows up for all storage layers on the real- time performance and capacity dashboards. Drag-and-drop vendor-agnostic widgets can be added and customized to let you monitor all your storage devices however you want.
Set up alerts to notify you before performance and capacity issues become problems. Use pre-built alerts, create alerts, and fine tune the warning and critical thresholds for device types or individual devices.
Create predefined and custom reports to see performance and capacity trends in your storage environment.
SRM solutions Add addition polling engines or web servers as your storage environment expands.
The SRM Profiler module is also included with SRM, which gives access to more array vendors and models. This can be integrated with SRM and share the same licenses.
Integrate SRM with other SolarWinds Orion modules such as SAM to take advance of SolarWinds Orion monitoring solutions using AppStack and Network Atlas.
SRM widgets The SRM Web Console dashboards provide over 40 widgets that give real-time and historical SRM data in immediate, vendor-agnostic formats. When SRM is used with other SolarWinds Orion products you can build your own dashboards and NOC displays to meet your monitoring requirements.
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SRM architecture
The following graphic outlines the architecture of Storage Resource Monitor.
Licensing Storage Resource Monitor (SRM)
Orion Platform products support both perpetual licenses and subscription licenses. See License types in the Orion Platform documentation for details.
SRM is licensed in the same way as other Orion Platform products, as described in License Orion Platform products. However, SRM license levels apply to the number of hard drives and solid state drives and across all Shared Storage (SAN, NAS) systems rather than nodes. This is the number of actual physical drives, regardless of capacity or technology. Disk drives in servers are not counted.
All disk drives managed by the monitored SAN/NAS system will be automatically included for licensing.
For example, the SRM25 license will cover storage environments of up to 25 drives. The SRM50 license covers 26 to 50 drives, and so on.
page 11 The SRM license covers both the SRM Orion module and the SRM Profiler module. For information on how the license is shared if you are running both modules, please see Use SRM with SRM Profiler.
To see how many drives are currently being monitored:
1. Navigate to Settings > All Settings. 2. Scroll down to the Details section and click License Details. 3. Find SRM in the list of installed products.
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Add arrays to SRM
Add arrays to SRM
The following table provides links to SolarWinds knowledge base articles that give the credentials and other information needed to add arrays to SRM. In some cases arrays need to be enabled before they can be added, or a provider set up either on the array or on an associated server, to enable performance data collection.
Arrays that are only supported by the SolarWinds Orion SRM Profiler are listed in Which arrays are supported by SRM and SRM Profiler?
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Dell EMC Compellent SMI-S and REST API on external Enable a Dell Compellent array Dell Storage Manager
Dell EMC Data Domain SNMP on the array Enable an EMC Data Domain array
Dell EMC EqualLogic PS Series SNMP on the array Enable a Dell EqualLogic PS Series array
Dell EMC PowerVault MD 3xxx External SMI-S provider Enable a Dell PowerVault, IBM DS3xxx, DS4xxx, DS5xxx, LSI or NetApp E-Series array
Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4xxx/5xxx (aka Onboard SMI-S provider and Enable a Dot Hill AssuredSAN Quantum QXS) XML APIs 4xxx/5xxx array
EMC Isilon SNMP and APIs on the array Enable an EMC Isilon array
EMC Symmetrix VMAX / VMAXe / External SMI-S provider or EMC Enable the Dell EMC Solutions DMX-4 Solutions Enabler Enabler
EMC Unity Onboard APIs on the array Enable a Dell EMC Unity array
EMC VMAX3 and VMAX All Flash EMC Solutions Enabler on array Enable the Dell EMC Solutions Family (HYPERMAX OS) or on external server/VM Enabler
EMC VNX / CLARiiON External SMI-S provider or EMC Enable the Dell EMC Solutions Solutions Enabler Enabler
EMC VNX NAS Gateway / Celerra Onboard SMI-S provider and Enable an EMC VNX NAS XML APIs Gateway / Celerra SMI-S array
EMC XtremIO REST API on the array Enable an EMC Xtremio array
HDS (External Provider) External SMI-S provider Enable a HDS external SMI-S provider
HDS (Onboard Provider) Onboard SMI-S provider Enable a HDS onboard SMI-S provider
HPE 3PAR / StoreServ Onboard SMI-S provider Enable a HP 3PAR / StoreServ SMI-S provider
HPE P2xxx/MSA Onboard SMI-S provider and Enable a HP P2xxx / MSA XML APIs onboard array
HPE StorageWorks XP (External External SMI-S provider Enable the HP Command View Provider) Advanced Edition SMI-S provider
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ARRAY TYPE PROVIDER/METHOD KB ARTICLE
HPE StorageWorks XP (Onboard Onboard SMI-S provider Enable a HP Storage Works XP Provider) onboard provider
Huawei OceanStor Dorado External SMI-S provider Enable a Huawei Dorado array
Huawei OceanStor V3 / V5 (External External SMI-S provider Enable a Huawei OceanStor V3 / Provider) V5 array (External SMI-S Provider)
Huawei OceanStor V3 / V5 Onboard SMI-S provider Enable a Huawei OceanStor V3 / (Onboard Provider) V5 array (Onboard SMI-S Provider)
IBM DS3xxx / 4xxx / 5xxx External SMI-S provider Enable a Dell PowerVault, IBM DS3xxx, DS4xxx, DS5xxx, LSI or NetApp E- or EF-Series array
IBM DS8xxx Onboard SMI-S provider Enable an IBM DS8xxx array
IBM FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R Onboard SMI-S provider Enable an IBM FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R array
IBM N Series Onboard Data ONTAP APIs Enable an IBM N Series array
IBM SVC / V9000 / V7000 / V5000 / Onboard SMI-S provider Enable an IBM SVC / V9000 / V3700 V7000 / V5000 / V3700 array
IBM XIV Onboard SMI-S provider Enable an IBM XIV array
InfiniBox On-board APIs Enable an Infinibox array
Kaminario K2 Onboard RESTful API Enable a Kaminario K2 array
LSI External SMI-S provider Enable a Dell PowerVault, IBM DS3xxx, DS4xxx, DS5xxx, LSI, NetApp E- or EF-Series array
NetApp E-Series / EF-Series External SMI-S provider Enable a Dell PowerVault, IBM DS3xxx, DS4xxx, DS5xxx, LSI or NetApp E or EF-Series array
NetApp Filer (Direct Polling) Onboard Data ONTAP APIs Enable a NetApp Filer (Direct Poll) array
NetApp OnCommand Unified APIs on external Operations Enable a NetApp OnCommand Manager / Operations Manager / Manager software for 7-mode or Clustered Data DFM for 7-Mode ONTAP (including the NetApp AFF series) array
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NetApp OnCommand Unified APIs on external OnCommand Enable a NetApp OnCommand Manager for Clustered Data ONTAP Unified Manager software for 7-mode or Clustered Data ONTAP (including the NetApp AFF series) array
Nimble Storage Onboard Rest API on Group Enable a Nimble array leader
Pure Storage Onboard SMI-S provider and Enable a Pure provider REST API
Supported arrays (A - H)
l Monitor Dell EMC Compellent arrays in SRM
l Monitor Dell EMC EqualLogic PS series arrays in SRM
l Monitor Dell EMC PowerVault MD3xxx arrays in SRM
l Monitor Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4xxx/5xxx (now Quantum QXS-4) arrays in SRM
l Monitor EMC Data Domain arrays in SRM
l Monitor EMC Isilon arrays in SRM
l Monitor EMC Symmetrix VMAX / VMAXe / DMX-4 arrays in SRM
l Monitor EMC Unity arrays in SRM
l Monitor EMC Symmetrix VMAX / VMAXe / DMX-4 arrays in SRM
l Monitor EMC VNX / CLARiiON arrays in SRM
l Monitor EMC VNX NAS Gateway / Celerra arrays in SRM
l Monitor EMC XtremIO arrays in SRM
l Monitor HDS (External Provider) arrays in SRM
l Monitor HDS (Onboard Provider) arrays in SRM
l Monitor HPE 3PAR / StoreServ arrays in SRM
l Monitor HPE P2xxx/MSA arrays in SRM
l Monitor HPE StorageWorks XP (External Provider) arrays in SRM
l Monitor Huawei OceanStor Dorado arrays in SRM
l Monitor Huawei OceanStor V3 / V5 (External) arrays in SRM
l Monitor Huawei OceanStor V3/V5 array with onboard provider arrays in SRM
Monitor Dell EMC Compellent arrays in SRM
Dell EMC Compellent arrays are monitored using SMI-S and REST API on the external Dell Storage Manger.
For information on enabling the provider, see the Enable a Dell EMC Compellent array knowledge base article.
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After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors in Dell EMC Compellant arrays:
l Cache cards
l Disks, Fans (value)
l FC ports
l iSCSI ports
l I/O modules
l Power supplies
l SAS ports
l Temperature (value)
l Voltage (value)
Monitor Dell EMC EqualLogic PS series arrays in SRM
Dell EMC EqualLogic PS Series arrays are monitored through APIs using SNMP on the array.
For information on enabling the array, see the Enable a Dell EMC EqualLogic PS Series array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors:
l Fans (value)
l Temperature (value)
l Power supplies
Monitor Dell EMC PowerVault MD3xxx arrays in SRM
Dell EMC PowerVault MD3xxx arrays are monitored using an external SMI-S Provider.
For information on enabling the provider, see the Enable a Dell EMC PowerVault MD3xxx array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4xxx/5xxx (now Quantum QXS-4) arrays in SRM Page Settings/Summary:
This section provides information for configuring your provider to facilitate communication between the Dot Hill array and SRM.
page 17 Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4xxx/5xxx arrays (now Quantum QXS-4) are monitored through a combination of an onboard SMI-S Provider and XML APIs on the array.
For information on enabling the array, see the Quantum QXS-4 (formerly Enable a Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4xxx/5xxx) array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor EMC Data Domain arrays in SRM
EMC Data Domain arrays are monitored via SNMP.
For information on enabling the array, see the Enable an EMC Data Domain array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors in EMC Data Domain arrays:
l Batteries (value)
l Disk temperature (value)
l Fan
l Power supply
l SCSI Target Ports
l Temperature (value)
Monitor EMC Isilon arrays in SRM
EMC Isilon arrays are monitored via SNMP and through on-board APIs on the array.
For information on enabling the array, see the Enable an EMC Isilon array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors in EMC Isilon arrays:
l Batteries
l Disks
l Ethernet ports
l Fan (speed)
l FC ports
l Power supply
l Temperature
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Monitor EMC Symmetrix VMAX / VMAXe / DMX-4 arrays in SRM
EMC Symmetrix VMAX / VMAXe / DMX-4 arrays are monitored through an external SMI-S Provider, which is contained in the EMC Solutions Enabler Appliance.
For information on enabling the provider, see the Enable the Solutions Enabler Appliance knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following EMC VMAX array sensors:
l Batteries
l Fans
l Management Controllers
l I/O Modules,
l Memory
l Ports
l Power Supplies
Monitor EMC Unity arrays in SRM
EMC Unity arrays are monitored through on-board APIs on the array.
SolarWinds SRM only supports EMC Unity with version 4.2 firmware or newer. Firmware 4.1.2 does not support block storage read and write latencies, so the performance job will fail.
For further information on enabling the array, see the Enable an EMC Unity array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in the Add arrays to SRM section of this guide.
Monitor EMC VNX / Clariion arrays in SRM
EMC VNX / Clariion arrays are monitored through an external SMI-S Provider. If you already have the EMC Solutions Enabler Appliance deployed, you can use the SMI-S provider.
For information on enabling the provider, see the Enable the Solutions Enabler Appliance knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors on EMC /VNX CLARiiON arrays:
l Fan
l Power Supply
page 19 l Battery
l Management Controller
l I/O Module
l Port
You can additionally monitor file storage on the EMC VNX using a combination of an onboard SMI-S Provider and XML APIs. To do this, after the array has been added, go to the details page for the array, scroll down to the Getting Started Monitoring File Storage for EMC VNX Arrays widget, and click Configure This Array.
SRM 2019.4 introduces Controller Monitoring for EMC VNX Clariion arrays.
Monitor EMC VMAX3 and VMAX All Flash Family (HYPERMAX OS) arrays in SRM
EMC VMAX3 and VMAX All Flash arrays can be monitored through the SMI-S Provider that is part of EMC Solutions Enabler, deployed either on the array or on an external server/VM.
For information on enabling the provider, see the Enable the EMC Solutions Enabler Appliance knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for EMC VMAX3 and VMAX All Flash Family (HYPERMAX OS) arrays:
l Fan
l Power Supply
l Battery
l Memory
l Management Controller
l I/O Module
l Port
l Adapter
Monitor EMC VNX NAS Gateway / Celerra arrays in SRM
EMC VNX NAS Gateway / Celerra arrays are monitored through onboard SMI-S Provider and XML APIs.
For information on enabling this array, see the Enable an EMC VNX NAS Gateway / Celerra array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following EMX VNX Celerra/VNX Gateway sensors:
l Batteries
l Fans
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l Ports
l Management Controllers
Monitor EMC XtremIO arrays in SRM
EMC XtremIO arrays are monitored through onboard REST APIs.
For information on enabling this array, see the Enable an EMC XtremIO array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor HDS (External Provider) arrays in SRM
Hitachi Data Systems (External Provider) arrays are monitored through an external SMI-S Provider. The HDS HDVm SMI-S Provider is available as part of the Hitachi Command Suite (referred to as the Device Manager or HighCommand Suite in earlier versions). It is enabled by default in newer versions of the Hitachi Command Suite.
For more information, see the Enable a HDS external SMI-S provider knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor HDS (Onboard Provider) arrays in SRM
HDS (Onboard Provider) arrays are monitored through the SMI-S Provider running on the onboard VSP (Virtual Storage Platform).
For more information, see the Enable a HDS onboard SMI-S provider knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor HPE 3PAR / StoreServ arrays in SRM
HPE 3PAR / StoreServ arrays are monitored through an onboard SMI-S provider.
For information on enabling this array, see the Enable a HPE 3PAR / StoreServ array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available, when enabled, for the following sensors in HPE 3PAR arrays:
l Adapter cards
l Batteries
l CPU
l Disks
page 21 l Fans
l Memory
l Network port
l Power Supply
l SFP
To enable hardware health monitoring, see Enable HPE 3PAR array for hardware health monitoring.
Monitor HPE P2xxx/MSA arrays in SRM
HPE P2xxx/MSA arrays are monitored through a combination of an onboard SMI-S Provider and XML APIs.
For information on enabling this array, see the Enable a HPE P2xxx/MSA array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor HPE StorageWorks XP (External Provider) arrays in SRM
HPE StorageWorks XP (External Provider) arrays are monitored through an external SMI-S Provider. This is available as part of the HPE XP Command View (HPE XP CVAE) with the Device Manager Component. It is enabled by default in the newer versions of the HPE XP CVAE.
For information on enabling the provider, see the Enable the HPE Command View Advanced Edition SMI-S provider knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor HPE StorageWorks XP (Onboard Provider) arrays in SRM
HPE StorageWorks XP (Onboard Provider) arrays are monitored through an SMI-S provider. This is pre- enabled and a license key is not required to enable this SMI-S Provider.
For information on enabling the provider, see the Enable a HPE Storage Works XP onboard provider knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor Huawei OceanStor Dorado arrays in SRM
Huawei OceanStor Dorado arrays are monitored through an external SMI-S Provider.
For information on enabling, see the Enable a Huawei OcenaStor Dorado array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors in Huawei OcenaStor Dorado arrays:
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l Fan
l Power Supply
l Battery
l Disk
Monitor Huawei OceanStor V3 / V5 (External) arrays in SRM
Huawei OceanStor V3/V5 arrays can be monitored through an external Provider. For information on enabling, see the Enable a Huawei OceanStor V3/V5 array with external provider knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors in Huawei OcenaStor V3/V5 arrays:
l Fan
l Power Supply
l Battery
l Disk
Monitor Huawei OceanStor V3/V5 array with onboard provider arrays in SRM
Huawei OceanStor V3/V5 arrays can be monitored through an internal SMI-S provider.
For information on enabling, see the Enable a Huawei OceanStor V3/V5 array with onboard provider knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors in Huawei OcenaStor V3/V5 arrays:
l Fan
l Power Supply
l Battery
l Disk
Supported arrays (I - Z)
l Monitor IBM DS3xxx/DS4xxx/DS5xxx arrays in SRM
l Monitor IBM DS 8xxx arrays in SRM
l Monitor IBM FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R arrays in SRM
l Monitor IBM N Series arrays in SRM
l Monitor IBM SVC / V9000 / V7000 / V5000 / V3700 arrays in SRM
l Monitor IBM XIV in SRM
page 23 l Monitor Infinidat Infinibox arrays in SRM
l Monitor Kaminario K2 arrays in SRM
l Monitor LSI arrays in SRM
l Monitor NetApp E- and EF-Series arrays
l Monitor NetApp Filer (Direct Polling) arrays in SRM
l Monitor NetApp 7-Mode and Clustered Data ONTAP arrays in SRM using the NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager
l Monitor Nimble Storage arrays in SRM
l Monitor Pure Storage arrays in SRM
Monitor IBM DS3xxx/DS4xxx/DS5xxx arrays in SRM
IBM DS3xxx DS4xxx or DS5xxx arrays are monitored through an external SMI-S Provider.
For information on enabling the array, see the Enable a Dell EMC PowerVault, IBM DS3xxx, DS4xxx, DS5xxx, LSI or NetApp E-Series array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor IBM DS 8xxx arrays in SRM
IBM DS8xxx arrays are monitored through an onboard SMI-S provider.
For information on enabling the array, see the Enable an IBM DS8xxx array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor IBM FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R arrays in SRM
IBM FlashSystem A9000, and A9000R arrays are monitored through an onboard SMI-S provider.
For information on enabling the array, see the Enable an IBM FlashSystem A9000/A9000R array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor IBM N Series arrays in SRM
IBM N series arrays are monitored through onboard APIs.
For information on enabling the array, see the Enable an IBM N Series array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
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Monitor IBM SVC / V9000 / V7000 / V5000 / V3700 arrays in SRM
IBM SVC / V9000 / V7000 / V5000 / V3700 arrays are monitored through an onboard SMI-S provider.
For information on enabling, see the Enable an IBM SVC array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available the following sensors:
l Ports
Monitor IBM XIV in SRM
IBM XIV arrays are monitored through an onboard SMI-S provider.
For information on enabling the array, see the Enable an IBM XIV array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors:
l Ports
Monitor Infinidat Infinibox arrays in SRM
Infinidat Infinibox arrays are monitored through an onboard REST API.
For information on enabling the array, see the Enable an Infinibox array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors:
l Disks
l Ethernet ports
l Fiber Channel ports
l HBA (Adapter
l Infiniband ports
l Power supply
l Switches
l UPS (Batteries)
Monitor Kaminario K2 arrays in SRM
Kaminario K2 All Flash Storage arrays are monitored through an RESTful onboard API.
For information on enabling, see the Enable a Kaminario K2 array knowledge base article.
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Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors:
l Adapter
l Batteries
l Disks
l Ports
l Power Supply
Monitor LSI arrays in SRM
LSI arrays are monitored through an external SMI-S provider.
For information on enabling, see the Enable a Dell EMC PowerVault, IBM DS3xxx, DS4xxx, DS5xxx, LSI or NetApp E-Series array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor NetApp E- and EF-Series arrays
NetApp E- and EF-Series arrays are monitored through an external SMI-S provider.
For information on enabling, see the Enable a Dell EMC PowerVault, IBM DS3xxx, DS4xxx, DS5xxx, LSI, or NetApp E-Series or EF-Series array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor NetApp Filer (Direct Polling) arrays in SRM
NetApp Filer (Direct Polling) arrays are 7-mode and cluster mode storage arrays, including the NetApp AFF series, that can be monitored through on-board Data ONTAP APIs.
For information on enabling, see the Enable a NetApp Filer (Direct Poll) array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Monitor NetApp 7-Mode and Clustered Data ONTAP arrays in SRM using the NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager
NetApp 7-Mode arrays can be monitored through APIs using OnCommand Unified Manager / Operations Manager / DFM software external to the array.
NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP arrays, including the new NetApp AFF series, can be monitored through APIs on the OnCommand Unified Manager software external to the array.
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For information on enabling these arrays, see the Enable NetApp OnCommand for 7-mode or Clustered Data ONTAP arrays knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors in NetApp Cluster Mode arrays:
l Battery
l Disks
l Fans
l FC ports
l Power Supply
l SAS ports
l Temperature
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors in NetApp 7-Mode arrays:
l Disks
l FC ports
l iSCSI ports
l Shelf
Monitor Nimble Storage arrays in SRM
Nimble Storage arrays are monitored through the onboard REST API on the array group leader.
The Nimble array needs to have version 4.3.0 or higher firmware installed.
For information on enabling the array, see the Enable a Nimble array knowledge base article.
After the array is enabled, you can begin monitoring as described in Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM.
Hardware Health Monitoring is available for the following sensors:
l Controllers
l Disks
l Ethernet ports
l Fans
l Fiber Channel ports
l Power supplies
l SAS ports
Monitor Pure Storage arrays in SRM
Pure Storage arrays are monitored through a combination of an onboard SMI-S Provider and REST APIs.
For information on enabling, see the Enable a Pure provider knowledge base article.
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Configure your storage arrays for SRM
The SolarWinds Orion Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) makes use of several communication methods to retrieve information from supported arrays. SMI-S Storage Management Initiative Specification
SNMP Simple Network Protocol
XMS XtremIO Management Server
API Application program interface
In order for a storage array to communicate with SRM, it is sometimes necessary for a provider to be installed. Depending on the vendor and the array model, the provider may be part of the management software provided with the array (Type 1 below) or a separate software application hosted from a server external to the array (Type 2) . In some cases the provider is already embedded on the storage array (Type 3). The following graphic demonstrates these three cases:
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Manage arrays, providers, and credentials in SRM
SRM provides an easy-to-use central location for managing storage arrays, providers, and credentials.
1. Navigate to Settings > All Settings. 2. Click Manage Storage Objects in the Node & Group Management section.
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Select arrays you want to manage. You can perform the following tasks:
l Import or export the storage array custom properties
l Edit the array properties
If you select more than one array, you can only edit polling frequencies, enable hardware health, and select array custom properties.
l Unmanage/remanage arrays
l Launch an immediate Statistics poll
l Launch an immediate Topology poll
l Assign an additional polling engine
l Delete the array
Manage providers
Select the provider you want to manage. You can perform the following tasks:
l Edit the external SMI-S provider address, credential, and polling frequency
l Delete the provider
Manage credentials
Set up, edit and delete array credentials. You can set up credentials before you add arrays to your network.
1. Click Add Credential. 2. Select the Credential type. 3. Complete the Edit Credential fields, and click OK. The credential is available when you add an array.
Use the MSA credential if you need to set up API credentials.
You can only delete credentials if they are not in use.
Add your storage array for monitoring with SRM
Storage Resource Monitor provides the Add Storage Device wizard to adding storage arrays (and external providers if required) to your network.
Before you begin, refer to the knowledge base article linked from the Add arrays to SRM page for your array, and ensure you have enabled the provider/array if necessary and have the credential and other information required.
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1. From the Web Console, navigate to My Dashboards > Storage Summary, and then click Add Storage Device on the Getting Started with Storage Resource Monitor widget.
If the Getting Started with Storage Resource Monitor widget is not displayed, you can quickly add it to the page.
The Add Storage Array wizard is opened. 2. Select the array type from the Choose Device Type drop-down list, and click Next.
If you are running multiple pollers you are prompted to choose a poller to monitor the array. Click Next.
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4. Enter the connection information for the provider. You can use an existing credential or create a new credential.
Create and edit credentials on the Edit storage object properties in SRM page.
5. Click Advanced and enter the required information.
6. Click Test Connection to ensure the information entered is valid, then click Next. 7. Select the storage arrays to manage with this provider using the checkboxes, and then click Next.
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8. Verify your selections, and click Finish.
Unmanage and remanage an array in SRM
If you need to stop monitoring a storage array:
1. Navigate to the array Detail page using the All Storage Objects widget. 2. Click Unmanage on the Management widget. The Unmanage window opens. 3. Enter the start and end date and times of the period for which you want to suspend monitoring.
To unmanage immediately, click OK. This will unmanage the array for 24 hours or until you remanage the array.
4. To restart monitoring an array, repeat this procedure, but click Remanage on the array management widget.
To unmanage multiple arrays, use the Manage Storage Objects page:
1. Click Settings > All Settings. 2. Click Manage Storage Objects. 3. Select the arrays that you want to unmanage and click Unmanage. The Unmanage window opens. 4. Enter the start and end date and times of the period for which you want to suspend monitoring.
To unmanage immediately, click OK. This will unmanage the array for 24 hours or until you remanage the array.
5. To restart monitoring an array, repeat this procedure, but click Remanage when you have selected the objects.
EMC XtremIO and Pure Storage capacity savings technologies
EMC XtremIO and Pure Storage arrays use capacity-savings technologies including:
page 33 l De-duplication - removing redundant data.
l Compression - making the object smaller using standard compression algorithms.
l Thin provisioning - using virtualization to give the appearance of having more physical resources than are actually available.
As an example, let us look at the LUN creation process for these arrays. Suppose we were to provision a logical object (LUN) on an EMC XtremIO or Pure Storage array, and wanted to make it 100 GB.
After creating the LUN, we can inspect the LUN Details view to see that the Total Size property shows 100 GB, the size of the LUN required.
We can investigate the Consumed Capacity value. Immediately after the LUN is created this value will be a very small fraction of the 100 GB. It will, of course, grow as the user adds data to the LUN. The value displayed should be exactly the net amount of data which has been sent to the LUN. Since this is a logical value, as seen by the host computer operating system, it cannot be greater than the Total Size.
If we then look at the Storage Pool Details view we should see the Total Subscribed Capacity has increased by 100 GB.
Depending on the array total capacity and the Total Subscribed capacity, the Oversubscribed Capacity can stay at 0, or grow to a value between 0 and 100 GB. This value shows how much the sum of the LUNs Total Size values for the pool is bigger than the Total Usable Capacity.
Over the lifetime of the LUN, Total Capacity of the LUN and its share in the Total Subscribed Capacity for the array will not change, unless the storage administrator expands or shrinks the LUN.
In most cases the Consumed Capacity of the LUN will not decrease, with the exception for LUNs owned by certain operating systems. For example, if VMware is used, VAAI is able to communicate to the array a list of unused blocks of data - these blocks will be removed, decreasing the Consumed Capacity.
The influence of adding the 100 GB LUN on the Usable Capacity for the array cannot be predicted with 100% certainty. Because of global de-duplication, adding the data can leave the free usable capacity unchanged in extreme situations. Therefore, any prediction for run-out time is statistically valid at the whole array level.
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Administer
Administer SRM
This section provides information on the day-to-day administration of the Storage Resource Monitor.
The Orion Web Console is where you interact with your SolarWinds Orion products. For SRM, this is where you monitor your storage network using dashboards, views, and widgets.
You can use the Orion Web Console to complete daily tasks such as:
l Add and manage users
l Manage polling, alert thresholds, and other settings for arrays and storage objects
l Monitor hardware health and run reports
l Create alerts and generate reports from this console
Log in to the Orion Web Console
If you added Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) to an existing SolarWinds Orion platform installation, you are familiar with the Web Console and can immediately access SRM.
1. Navigate to My Dashboards > Storage > Storage Summary.
If you installed SRM as a standalone product:
1. Launch the Web Console:
l Click Start > All Programs > SolarWinds > Orion Web Console. or
l Open a web browser on your SolarWinds SRM server and enter https://ipAddress or https://hostname, where ipAddress is the IP address of your server and hostname is the host name of your server. 2. Enter a user name and password.
The first time you log into SRM (and until you change the default Admin password) you can log in with the user name Admin and no password.
3. Click Login.
The first time you log in to the Web Console you are prompted to use the Enrollment wizard to add storage devices to SRM for monitoring. For more information see Add arrays to SRM.
The Orion Storage Home view displays a summary of information monitored by SRM. This summary includes the All Storage Objects widget, which enables you to navigate to every storage object monitored, and also shows all active alerts, the last 25 events, objects most at risk, and hardware health.
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Views
The initial default views available from the SRM menu show summaries of storage information across your environment:
l Storage Home: a high level overview of all monitored storage objects, along with alerts and events.
l Performance Dashboard: an overview of storage objects showing performance data.
l Capacity Dashboard: an overview of storage objects showing capacity data.
When you drill down from these, the views are for individual storage objects, showing capacity and performance information.
Views can be customized to suit the needs of your users. For example, if you want to give different groups of users different levels of access to storage information, you can create custom views that restrict what they can and cannot see.
Click an object name in any widget to display the Details view for that object.
For information on editing, adding and copying views, see Customizing Views.
For information on setting permissions, see Manage user accounts.
Widgets
Widgets were referred to as widgets in earlier versions of this documentation.
Views are comprised of widgets, and each widget contains data from one or more monitored objects such as performance, capacity, and disk count. You can add or remove widgets from views as needed.
The following image shows three widgets on the Storage Home dashboard: All Storage Objects, Storage Objects by Performance, and Array Raw Disk Capacity Summary.
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For information on the SRM widgets, see SRM widgets.
Manage SRM settings
Settings in SRM, such as thresholds, can be applied at the global level for all storage objects in your environment, or at the object-specific level if an individual device needs attention.
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1. Click Settings > All Settings. 2. Click SRM Settings in the Product Specific Settings area.
3. Select storage object type. The SRM threshold page for this storage object type opens. 4. Update the threshold levels for critical and warning levels as required, and click Submit.
The Cache Hit Ratio thresholds are reached when the cache hit ratio falls below the values entered. For all other settings, thresholds are reached when the values are exceeded.
Change object-specific SRM settings
1. Navigate to the required object details page using the All Storage Objects widget. 2. Click Manage on the Details widget.
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3. The Edit Property page for the object opens. Here you can edit the following properties:
Arrays and clusters Name IP address Credentials Polling frequencies Enable hardware health polling Custom properties, if set up Alerting thresholds
Other storage objects Name Custom properties, if set up Alerting thresholds
4. Click Submit.
Edit storage object properties in SRM
Use the Edit Properties page on the Details page to edit the setting for monitoring storage objects.
You can also edit arrays from the Manage Storage Objects page in Settings.
The Edit Properties pages in SRM are where you can edit the setting for monitoring storage objects. They are accessible from the Details pages for individual objects. Arrays can also be edited via the Manage Storage Objects page in Settings.
Edit an individual storage object
1. Navigate to the required object details page. 2. Click Manage on the object Details widget. For individual storage objects, use the Edit Properties page to edit:
l Name
l Custom properties set up for the object
l Alerting thresholds For individual storage arrays and clusters, you can also edit:
l Array IP address or hostname
l Array credential
l Polling frequencies
l Enable/disable storage controller monitoring
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l Logging details (under Advanced)
Edit multiple storage arrays
1. Click Settings > All Settings. 2. Click Manage Storage Objects in the Node & Group Management section. 3. Select one or more arrays, and click Edit Properties. Use the Edit Properties page to edit:
l Performance, capacity, topology and controller polling frequencies
l Storage controller monitoring
l Hardware health monitoring
l Alerting thresholds
l Logging details (under Advanced)
Edit array polling frequencies
When you first add an array for monitoring, it uses default frequencies for polling. If these settings do not correspond with those you have set up for your storage devices these can be changed in SRM.
Changing the frequency that data is polled by SRM does not alter the frequency that data is collected by the devices, and may produce unexpected results, especially if set to values lower than your storage device or provider supports. You should consult your vendor for information on device settings and polling recommendations.
The four polling categories used by SRM are:
Capacity Polls for capacity used on each storage device.
Performance Polls for performance metrics such as Latency, Throughput, and Input/Output Operations Per Second on each device.
Topology Polls for LUN masking and mapping data used for end-to-end mapping.
Controller Polls for storage controller and storage controller port data for devices that support this.
To view and change the polling interval for a specific array:
1. Navigate to Storage Summary, and click on the array in the all Storage Objects widget. The Array Details page is displayed. The current polling intervals, along with the last poll time, are displayed on the Array Polling Details widget.
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2. Click Edit Array in the Management widget. The Edit Properties page is displayed.
3. Amend the polling frequencies as required, and click Submit.
To change the polling intervals for multiple arrays:
1. Click Settings > All Settings. 2. Click Manage Storage Objects in the Node & Group Management section.
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4. Select the arrays, and click Edit Properties. 5. The Edit Properties page is displayed.
6. Amend the polling frequencies as required, and click Submit. The frequencies entered will be applied to all selected arrays.
Manage thresholds for SRM
Orion Platform products provide two threshold levels: critical and warning. Many SRM widgets can display a critical or warning status when a monitored value on a device exceeds thresholds. You can override all storage objects of the same type (for example, all storage arrays in your monitored environment) or for individual objects for predefined static thresholds.
Thresholds can be used to define trigger conditions when creating alerts.
To change the value for a threshold, you can use a static threshold or a dynamic baseline threshold.
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l A static threshold is a constant value. For example, the global warning threshold for LUN latency might be 50 ms, and the critical value might be 100 ms. You should be familiar with the performance of that object type or specific object to set a value for a static threshold is across your environment.
l A dynamic baseline threshold uses deviation from the mean value to determine critical and warning thresholds. Dynamic baseline thresholds can only be set for individual objects.
Dynamic thresholds require data to be collected for a week for an accurate baseline to be determined. This is then used to calculate mean and standard deviations. The warning and critical threshold values are defined as two or three standard deviations above the mean.
For information on setting thresholds in SRM, see:
l Set SRM thresholds
l Set SRM thresholds for specific storage objects
Set SRM thresholds
You can adjust the settings for the critical and warning thresholds values for all the members of a storage object type.
To adjust the thresholds for an individual object, see Set SRM thresholds for specific storage objects.
1. Navigate to Settings > All Settings. 2. Under Thresholds and Polling, click SRM Thresholds. 3. Click the link for the storage object type to set critical and warning levels.
page 43 4. Enter the values for Critical Level and Warning Level.
Except in the case of Cache Hit Ratio, Critical and Warning thresholds are triggered if the value is greater than the value specified. If you need to create thresholds that are triggered by the value falling below a specific value, set thresholds for specific objects.
Set SRM thresholds for specific storage objects
You can adjust the critical and warning thresholds values for an individual storage object.
1. Use the All Storage Objects resource to navigate to the Details page for the required storage object. 2. Click Manage at the top of the Details resource. 3. Scroll down to Alerting Thresholds, select Override Orion General Thresholds for the required metric, and adjust the warning and critical threshold values as needed.
Unlike setting thresholds at an object type level, you can change the operator for individual object thresholds here. This gives additional flexibility for you to create minimum values using "Less than" and other operators.
Set dynamic baseline thresholds
Use dynamic baseline thresholds to create warnings and alerts that trigger when polled data from a storage object deviates from standard behavior.
SRM uses the average data results of the mean, standard deviations, and historical distribution to calculate dynamic baselines. Automatically set thresholds based on the recent, normal performance of the dynamic baselines. By default, baseline calculations are based on data collected during the previous seven days.
Any anomalies that occur during the baseline period are included in the calculations and skew the thresholds generated. If significant changes happen in your environment, such as merging a new company, onboarding a large number of users, or making substantive improvements to the infrastructure, you should "re-baseline" to ensure the recommended values are accurate.
1. Use the All Storage Objects resource to navigate to the Details page for the required storage object. 2. Click Manage at the top of the Details resource.
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3. Scroll down to Alerting Thresholds, select Override Orion General Thresholds for the required property, and click Use Dynamic Baseline Thresholds.
You can also adjust the way baseline thresholds are calculated.
Click Latest Baseline Details and change the period of sampled data and select the deviations used to calculate the critical and warning thresholds.
An understanding of standard deviations and statistics is required before changing these settings.
Monitor hardware health for SRM
With the release of SRM 6.4, SolarWinds introduced hardware health monitoring for selected arrays, giving you immediate insight into hardware issues in your storage environment. Monitoring hardware health on storage arrays gives access to the status and values of onboard sensors. In addition to displaying this data on the Hardware Health page for the array, you can set thresholds to use in monitoring and alerts.
Hardware health data is collected when the storage array is polled for statistics/performance data. By default this is every 15 minutes, although this can be amended for individual devices.
SRM hardware health metrics
The hardware health metrics available for monitoring an array depend on the vendor and model.
This table assumes that the latest firmware is installed on the array. Status monitoring may vary on older versions. The table shows only sensors that provide statuses; some sensors, such as SpCards and Storage Controllers, are present in hardware health but they are only used to aggregate sensors.
For SRM 2020.2, hardware health data is available for the following arrays and sensors:
ARRAY SENSORS
Dell Compellent Cache cards, Disks, Fans (value), FC ports, iSCSI ports, I/O modules, Power supplies, SAS ports, Temperature (value), Voltage (value)
Dell EqualLogic PS Series Fans (value), Temperature (value), Power supplies
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EMC Data Domain Batteries (value), Disk temperature (value), Fans, Power supplies, SCSI Target Ports, Temperature (value)
EMC Isilon Batteries, Disks, Fans (value), Ethernet ports, FC ports, Power supplies, Temperature (value)
EMC Unity Batteries, Disks, Ethernet ports, Fans, Fiber Channel ports, Link control cards, Memory, Power consumption (value), Power supplies, SAS ports, SSDs, Temperature (value)
EMC VMAX3 and VMAX All Flash Family (HYPERMAX OS) Batteries, Fans, Management Controllers, I/O Modules Memory, Ports, Power Supplies
EMC VNX NAS Gateway / Celerra Batteries, Fans, Management Controllers, Ports
EMC VNX / CLARiiON Batteries, Disks, Fans, Management Controllers, Ports, Power Supplies
EMC Symmetrix VMAX / VMAXe / DMX-4 Batteries, Fans, Management Controllers, I/O Modules, Memory, Ports, Power Supplies
HPE 3PAR* Adapter cards, Batteries, CPU, Disks, Fans, Memory, Network port, Power Supply, SFP
Huawei Oceanstor Batteries, Disks, Fans, FC port, Ethernet port, Front-end FC port
IBM SVC / V9000 / V7000 / V5000 / V3700 Ports
IBM XIV Ports
Infinidat InfiniBox Disks, Ethernet ports, Fiber Channel ports, HBA (Adapter), Infiniband ports, Power supply, Switches, UPS (Batteries)
Kaminario K2 Adapter, Batteries, Disks, Ports, Power Supply
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ARRAY SENSORS
NetApp Cluster Mode** Batteries, Disks, Fans (value), FC ports, Power supplies, SAS ports, Temperature
NetApp 7-Mode Disks (value), Shelf, FC ports, iSCSI ports
Nimble Storage Controllers, Disks, Ethernet ports, Fans, Fiber Channel ports, Power supplies, SAS ports
* To enable HPE 3PAR arrays for hardware health monitoring, see Enable HPE 3PAR array for hardware health monitoring.
** To enable NetApp cluster Mode arrays for hardware health monitoring, see What NetApp Cluster Mode permissions are required by Storage Resource Monitor?
SRM hardware health widgets
If you have an array for which hardware health monitoring is enabled, the Hardware Health Overview widget is available. In addition, a hardware health tab is available to display the Hardware Details, Current Hardware Health, and Hardware Health widgets.
The tab is not displayed for arrays that do not currently support hardware health monitoring.
Hardware Shows the number of storage arrays and nodes that have hardware heath monitoring Health enabled, by status. Click on the icon to list the devices with this status. Overview
Hardware Lists hardware details such as status, manufacturer, model and last polling time for the Details selected array.
Current Lists the sensors enabled for the selected array, showing status and current value if Hardware applicable. Health Click Manage Sensors to open the Enable hardware health monitoring for SRM page.
Hardware Shows a performance chart for each sensor over a selected period. Health
Enable hardware health monitoring for SRM
When you add a storage array for which hardware health monitoring is supported, monitoring is automatically enabled. You can disable or enable an array or individual sensors, and set the critical and warning thresholds for each sensor where appropriate.
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1. Navigate to the array details page for the required array. 2. Click Edit Array in the Array Management widget. 3. Scroll down to the Hardware Health Polling checkbox and select or clear. 4. Click Submit.
Enable or disable individual hardware health sensors
1. Go to Settings > All Settings. 2. Click Manage Hardware Sensors in the Node & Group Management panel. 3. Use the Group By drop-down to display the sensors. For example, select Parent to list sensors by parent array. 4. Select the sensors to be enabled or disabled, then click the Enable or Disable icon.
Use custom thresholds for hardware health
You can set custom thresholds to override default sensor rules for sensors that return values (such as fan speed and temperature sensors on Dell Equilogic arrays).
1. Go to Settings > All Settings. 2. Click Manage Hardware Sensors in the Node & Group Management panel. 3. Use the Group By drop-down to display the sensors you require. 4. Select a sensor, and click the Edit Thresholds icon. 5. Select Set Custom Thresholds. This opens the Warning Threshold and Critical Threshold settings for the selected device.
Select Force to Up to permanently set a sensor status as UP. This option ignores data from the sensor.
6. For each threshold, set the condition and value. For example, for fan sensors you might want to be warned if the fan is spinning faster than 5000 rpm or slower than 4500 rpm, and given a critical warning if it rises above 5500 rpm or falls below 4000
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rpm, so you would set up the following conditions.
Change the hardware health temperature units
Temperature data from device sensors can be displayed as Fahrenheit or Celsius. By default, Fahrenheit is used.
1. Navigate to the array details page for any storage array that has hardware health enabled.
2. Select the Hardware Health tab in the left column 3. Click Edit on the Current Hardware Health widget. 4. Select Fahrenheit or Celsius, and click Submit.
The selected unit is applied to all hardware health widgets in the Orion Web Console for the current user.
You can also specify the temperature unit when creating a user.
Hardware Health Overview
This widget provides an overview of your monitored hardware health. It shows the numbers of arrays for which hardware health is being monitored by status.
Click the status to show a list of arrays in this state. You can then click on the array name to display the array Details page.
Hardware Details
After you have chosen the array you want to monitor, and selected the Hardware Health tab, the Hardware Details are displayed. This provides general information such as hardware status, manufacturer, model, service tag (if used) and the time the array was last polled.
The title and subtitle of this widget can be edited as required.
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Hardware Health
This widget provides a chart comparing statistics for all or selected sensors in an array, and shows how they have performed over a given period of time in relation to one another.
Use the zoom buttons to restrict the display period to one, 12 or 24 hours, or use the sliders and the scroll bar to zoom in on a specific time period.
The sensors values are displayed on tabs by sensor type (e.g. Fan and Temperature).
This widget is hidden if hardware monitoring is disabled or the array does contain sensors that return values.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle
l Select the temperature units (Fahrenheit or Celsius)
This will affect all widgets that display temperature for the current user, not just the current array.
l Change the default zoom range (this can be from the last hour to the last year, with the default being today since midnight).
l Change the amount of historical data to load (this can be between the last day and the last year)
l Change the sample interval
Data collected during the specified interval is summarized and displayed as a single point or bar in the chart.
l Add a chart title and subtitle
Current Hardware Health
The current status of your storage array's health is shown on the Current Hardware Health widget. The status for most items will read OK, Warning, or Critical, depending upon the set threshold values and the returned values. The icon colors for each item will be green, yellow, or red, respectively. Gray icons indicate a status of Unknown, which suggests a polling failure.
You can click on the gray triangle icons to expand and collapse the list of sensors that are being monitored.
When collapsed, the top level view shows the worst status of a sensor in that sensor group.
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Storage Controller monitoring
The 2019.4 release of SRM introduced the monitoring of storage controllers and storage controller ports. Initially, for EMC VNX Clariion devices, users can see details and some performance metrics for storage controllers and storage controller ports.
SRM 2020.2 introduced Storage Controller thresholds. Thresholds can be used to define trigger conditions when creating alerts. For further information, see Manage thresholds for SRM.
Storage controllers are devices that control the main functions of a storage array. Usually they consist of the CPUs, memory (both RAM and Cache) and ports. Sometimes they may be referred to as the storage processor or array controller.
SRM polls storage controllers as a separate polling job so should not impact any other functionality.
Once enabled, the data will be populated after 3 to 4 polls.
Storage Controller polling for a device can be disabled on its Edit Properties page.
Storage Controller widgets
l Storage Controller Load Distribution
l Storage Controller Details
l Storage Controller Ports List
l Storage Controller Port Details
l Top 10 Storage Controller Ports by Total IOPS
Storage Controller Load Distribution
The Controllers Load Distribution widget is displayed on the array details page for arrays supporting this feature. It displays performance data for each controller.
Controller Shows that status of the controller and provides a link to the controller details page.
IOPS Input/Output per second as a percentage of the total between the array controllers.
Throughput Throughput as a percentage of the total between the array controllers.
page 51 Latency Average latency for each IO operation on this controller.
IO Size Average IO size for each IO operation on this controller.
Storage Controller Details
The Controller Details widget shows information about the selected controller.
Storage Controller Ports List
The Controllers Port List widget shows performance values for the last poll for storage ports. The distribution values show the percentage share of traffic going through each of the ports on the selected single controller.
Performance is not avaible for backend SAS or FC ports.
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Storage Controller Port Details
The Controller Port Details widget shows the list of ports on a selected storage controller, providing additional information such as port number, port identifier and port speed.
Top 10 Storage Controller Ports by Total IOPS
This widget shows a graph comparing the performance over the selected time period for the top performing Storage Controller Ports attached to the current storage controller with the highest total IOPS. By default the top ten performing Storage Controller Ports are displayed.
You can hide any of the Storage Controller Ports for clarity.
You can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours, or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons, or set the start and end points from the historical data selection to select a custom period, by setting the start and end points from the historical data selection shown below the charts.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle of the widget.
l Change the maximum number of Storage Controller Ports to be displayed.
l Change the default zoom range, amount of historical data to load, and sample interval.
l Add a chart title and subtitle.
Use alerts with SRM
Alerts are standard throughout the SolarWinds Orion Platform, and are used to provide notification that a specific event has occurred. In SRM, for example, it could mean a storage array is running low on space, or the latency on a device has exceeded its critical threshold.
page 53 Events that trigger an alert is determined by conditions set up when the alert is created. When triggered, an alert can launch numerous actions, most commonly sending an email to a specific person or group. However, many other actions can also be set up, such as playing a sound, executing a script, or creating a ServiceNow incident.
See Use alerts to monitor your environment with the Orion Platform for an overview and complete documentation.
You can also view our Alert Lab on THWACK for community-based alert information.
Run reports in SRM
The Web Console Report Interface provides a wide array of predefined reports for SRM and other Orion Platform products. These reports can be customized as required, and you can also create your own reports, which can be printed or exported in a variety of formats.
To access the SRM reports:
1. Click Reports > All Reports. 2. From the Group By drop-down menu, select Report Category, scroll to the end of the list, and click Storage.
Double-click a report name to view that report. The report is generated and displayed. You can then edit, export or print the report.
Schedule reports
Create schedules to generate and email, print, and save reports.
1. Click Reports > All Reports. 2. Click Manage Reports in the upper right of the page, and then click Schedule Manager. The Manage Schedule page opens. 3. Click Create New Schedule to display the Schedule Properties view. 4. Enter a name and description for the schedule. 5. Click Assign Reports, select the reports to include in this schedule, and click Assign Reports. 6. Click Next to display the Schedule Frequency view. 7. Click Add Frequency. 8. The Add Frequency window enables you to create frequencies for a schedule. These can be daily, weekly or monthly, or you can select a specific date. You can also specify the time of day. Click Add Frequency to close the window. 9. Click Next to display the Actions to execute view. 10. Click Add Action, and select Email, Print, or Save to Disk. 11. Click Configure Action, and configure the action. 12. Next Click to view the schedule configuration summary, and then click Create Schedule.
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For information on creating, modifying and viewing reports in the Orion platform, see Create and View Reports.
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SRM solutions
This section contains topics about extending your SRM storage environment by adding additional pollers and web servers, using SRM Profiler if you need to add arrays not supported by SRM, and using SRM with other Orion modules.
Use SRM with SRM Profiler
In addition to the Orion Platform SRM module, there is also a separate module called SRM Profiler. This provides support for additional storage devices, and can be integrated with the SRM Orion Platform module, sharing the same license and allowing both products to run together. For more information on the SRM Profiler, see the SolarWinds Storage Manager/SRM Profiler documentation.
To integrate the SRM Orion Platform and SRM Profiler modules, you must be running version 6.0 or later for both products.
Prerequisites
The following prerequisites must be met before you can integrate SRM with SRM Profiler:
l Open the following ports: o 8443 o 17778 o 9000
l If your license is applied to the SRM Orion Platform module, you must reclaim the license and apply it to the SRM Profiler module before integration. After the SRM Orion Platform module and the SRM Profiler module are integrated, the SRM Profiler module is responsible for maintaining the license.
SRM Integration does not support TLS 1.1 and 1.2.
The Storage Manager Integration module
The Storage Manager Integration module for Orion is specific to earlier releases of the Storage Manager. If you install the Storage Manager Integration module after the SRM Orion Platform module and the SRM Profiler module, two storage tabs become available on the Orion web page: one for the SRM Orion Platform module content, one for the SRM Profiler module content.
If you are running the Storage Manager integration module for the Orion Platform prior to integrating, SolarWinds recommends you uninstall the Storage Manager integration module first.
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SolarWinds recommends that you do not install the Storage Manager Integration module after the SRM Orion Platform module and the SRM Profiler module are integrated.
Which arrays are supported by SRM and SRM Profiler?
Arrays that are only supported by SRM Profiler are displayed in bold.
SRM SRM PROFILER ORION MODULE MODULE
Dell EMC Compellent X X
Dell EMC Data Domain X
Dell EMC EqualLogic PS Series X X
Dell EMC PowerVault MD3xxx X X
EMC Isilon X X
EMC Symmetrix VMAX, VMAXe, DMX-4 X X
EMC Unity X
EMC VMAX3 Series X X
EMC VMAX All Flash Family (HYPERMAX OS) Series X
EMC VNX/CLARiiON X X
EMC VNX NAS Gateway/Celerra X X
EMC XtremIO X
Hitachi Data Systems AMS, USP V/VM, VSP, VSP G1000, VSP G200/400/600, X X TagmaStore USP, TagmaStore AMS/WMS, HUS 100 (Block-side), HUS VM
Hitachi Data Systems Thunder 9500V, Thunder 9200 (Block-side) X
HPE 3PAR / StoreServ X X
HPE P2xxx/MSA X
HPE StorageWorks EVA P6xxx X
HPE LeftHand P4xxx X
HPE Nimble Storage X
HPE StorageWorks XP (rebranded HDS) X X
Huawei OceanStor Dorado X
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Huawei OceanStor V3/V5 (Onboard Provider) X
IBM ESS X
IBM FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R X
IBM System Storage DS 3xxx, 4xxx, 5xxx X X
IBM System Storage DS 6xxx X
IBM System Storage DS 8xxx X X
IBM System Storage N series X X
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) X X
IBM SVC V9000, V7000, V5000, V3700 X X
IBM XIV X X
InfiniBox X
Infinidat InfiniBox X
Kaminario K2 X
LSI X X
LSI ONStor X
NetApp DFM / Operations Manager / OnCommand Manager Server X X
NetApp E Series X X
NetApp EF Series X
NetApp ONTAP 7-mode X X
NetApp ONTAP Cluster Mode X
Nimble X
Oracle Sun Storage Tech 2xxx, 6xxx, FLX Series X
Oracle Sun Storage Tech 99xx (rebranded HDS) X
Pillar X
Pure Storage X
Quantum QXS-4 (formerly Dot Hill AssureSAN 4xxx/5xxx) X
Xiotech 3D 4000, Emprise 7000 X
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Reclaim your license from SRM
When you integrate the SRM Profiler module with the SRM Orion Platform module, the license is applied to the SRM Profiler module and shared between the applications. If the license is currently applied to the SRM Orion Platform module, use the following procedure to reclaim the license before applying it to the SRM Profiler module.
1. Navigate to Settings > All Settings. 2. Click License Manager in the Details section. 3. Select Storage Resource Manager, and click Reclaim Licenses. 4. Click Yes to confirm.
5. Click Reclaim, and then click Finish when prompted.
Your reclaimed license is available in your customer portal and ready for activation.
Authentication between SRM and SRM Profiler
When the SRM Profiler module and the SRM Orion Platform module are integrated, both modules generate a hidden account and user name and password in order to communicate information back and forth.
After integration is complete, all requests to the SRM Orion Platform module and the SRM Profiler module are authenticated based on this service account information. Information transferred between the SRM Orion Platform module and the SRM Profiler module is encrypted and passed via HTTPS over TCP port 8443.
If SRM and SRM Profiler are integrated: page 59 l The SRM Profiler module is the primary owner for holding license keys, and is responsible for handling all license related queries.
l The products tries to sync every 5 minutes.
If SRM Profiler goes offline:
l The SRM Orion Platform module attempts to connect to the SRM Profiler module until connectivity is re-established.
l The SRM Orion Platform module will not add any arrays while the SRM Profiler module is unreachable.
l If the SRM Profiler module is unreachable for more than 24 hours, the SRM Orion Platform module marks all arrays as unlicensed, and polling stops.
If SRM goes offline:
l The SRM Profiler module continues to work.
l The SRM Profiler module uses the last retrieved license validation from the SRM Orion Platform module for 30 days.
l After 30 days, the last retrieved license validation from the SRM Orion Platform module is discarded, and the SRM Profiler module reclaims the license from the SRM Orion Platform module, and continues to work.
l The SRM Profiler module continues connection attempts to the SRM Orion Platform module until connectivity is re-established. When the SRM Orion Platform module goes offline, you can reclaim the license from the SRM Orion Platform module immediately.
Integrate SRM and SRM Profiler
If you have both SolarWinds SRM and SRM Profiler installed, you can integrate them as follows.
1. From the Web Console, navigate to Settings > All Settings. 2. Click SRM Settings in the Product Specific Settings section. 3. Click Manage SRM Profiler Module Integration in the License Summary section. The Setup SRM Profiler Module Integration page opens. 4. Enter the requested information for the Profiler module. 5. Click Test Connection to verify your settings, and then click Submit.
6. If the test fails, verify your credentials and connectivity to the SRM Profiler module server.
Disable integration between SRM and SRM Profiler
Integration between the SRM Orion Platform module and the SRM Profiler module can be disabled if required.
To disable integration:
1. Navigate to Settings > All Settings > SRM Settings > Manage SRM Profiler Module Integration. 2. Click Disable Integration.
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When integration is disabled:
l The SRM Profiler module remains licensed, so that polling continues for the storage devices to which it is assigned.
l If the 30 day evaluation period has not expired for the SRM Orion Platform module, polling continues for the devices to which it is assigned.
l If the 30 day evaluation period has expired for the SRM Orion Platform module, polling stops for devices to which it is assigned.
Key licensing scenarios when SRM Profiler and SRM are integrated
SRM performs the following tasks on start up:
l The SRM Orion Platform module retrieves licensing information from the SRM Profiler module. This information is kept in the SRM Orion Platform module license cache.
l The SRM Orion Platform module retrieves a list of licensed arrays for both the SRM Orion Platform module and the SRM Profiler module. This information is kept in the SRM Orion Platform module license cache.
The license cache is used by the SRM Orion Platform module to perform license checks when adding or removing arrays.
Add an array to the SRM Orion module
When you add an array to the SRM Orion Platform module, the system checks to see if the array is licensed and monitored to the SRM Profiler module.
l If the array is licensed in the SRM Profiler module, then the SRM Orion module adds the array to its inventory.
l If the array is not licensed in the SRM Profiler module, a calculation is performed by the SRM Orion module to verify if adding the array exceeds the total licensed disk count.
l If the total licensed disk count is not exceeded, the SRM Orion module adds the array, updates the license cache for the SRM Orion module, and sends a notification to the SRM Profiler module about the inventory change.
l If the total licensed disk count is exceeded, the user receives a warning message and the array is not added.
Add an array to the SRM Profiler module
When you add an array to the SRM Profiler module, the system checks to see if the array is licensed and monitored to the SRM Orion Platform module.
l If the array is licensed in the SRM Orion module, then the SRM Profiler module adds the array to its inventory.
l If the array is not licensed in the SRM Orion module, a calculation is performed by the SRM Profiler module to verify if adding the array exceeds the total licensed disk count.
page 61 l If the total licensed disk count is not exceeded, the SRM Profiler module adds the array, updates the license cache for the SRM Profiler module, and sends a notification to the SRM Orion module about the inventory change.
l If the total licensed disk count is exceeded, the user receives a warning message and the array is not added.
License Capacity
This message shows that you cannot add this array to SRM because doing so would exceed the number of disks your current SRM license permits.
You will need to upgrade your license to cover the number of disks you want monitored. Please contact SolarWinds for further information.
Use Additional Polling Engines with SRM
To collect data at a rate or volume beyond the capacity of a single SRM server, you can add an Additional Polling engine (APE). You can also use APEs for organizational purposes, so storage at each site is monitored by its own APE.
Although you can use a regular SolarWinds APE to retrieve storage information, SolarWinds provides a free SRM APE. This only retrieves storage related information and cannot be used with other products. The SRM APE software is available via your customer portal. You may use as many SRM APEs as required without additional licenses.
Install and configure an Additional Polling Engine (APE)
APEs use the same Microsoft SQL database as your SolarWinds SRM server. They do not require Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).
1. Download the APE from the SolarWinds Customer Portal. 2. Browse to the executable, and launch it.
The executable extracts to a folder containing an HTML readme, an Installer Guide, and Additional Polling Engine installers for all SolarWinds products that support Additional Polling Engines.
3. Launch the SRM installer. 4. Follow the instructions on the screen, and supply the requested information to install and configure the APE. 5. From the Web Console, navigate to Settings > All Settings. 6. Select Manage Storage Objects from the Node & Group Management section. 7. Select the storage devices to be monitored with the poller. 8. Click Assign Polling Engine from the More Actions drop-down menu. The Select a New a Polling Engine window opens.
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9. Select a polling engine for the selected arrays. 10. Click Change Polling Engine.
Your selected storage devices are now monitored by the APE instead of the main SolarWinds SRM server.
Use an additional web server with SRM
An Additional Web Server can reduce the load on your SolarWinds SRM server and ensure access to the Web Console in the case of a server failure. Install the Additional Web Server software on a server independent of the primary SolarWinds SRM server.
Requirements
l An additional web server license.
l A server with a 64-bit operating system.
l A network connection between the Additional Web Server and the SolarWinds SRM server or main poller.
l A version of the SRM Additional Web Server software that matches the version of the SolarWinds SRM server or main poller.
Install an Additional Web Server
1. Log onto the server on which you want to install the SRM additional web server software. 2. Download the SRM additional website software from the SolarWinds Customer Portal. 3. Double-click the executable for the SRM additional web server software to launch the Installation wizard. 4. Complete the installation wizard.
Use AppStack with SRM
The Application Stack, or AppStack, is a term used to describe the various layers that make up a complex application delivery infrastructure. The AppStack Environment view is an interactive visual mapping within the Orion Platform that provides an in-depth perspective through the entire environment to help identify the root cause of performance and availability issues.
page 63 AppStack automatically gathers information about objects in your environment and their respective relationships, and displays them in the AppStack widget and AppStack view. Some relationships, such as groups and dependencies, can be defined by the user.
You can monitor the health status of storage devices along with associated entities of the storage device. The Appstack Environment reports the status of the arrays, storage pools, volumes, LUNs, servers, hosts, applications, and groups.
SRM automatically constructs the view and presents it via the Web Console and no configuration is needed.
As a stand-alone product, AppStack is available in the software versions listed below. If you own two or more of the listed products, AppStack does not function properly unless each version of the software is upgraded to the versions listed:
l Storage Resource Monitor 6.0 or later
l Virtualization Manager 6.2 or later
l Server & Application Monitor 6.2 or later
l Web Performance Monitor 2.2 or later
To access the AppStack Environment:
In the Web Console, go to My Dashboards > Home > Environment.
To use the AppStack Environment widget in SRM:
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1. In the Web Console, go to My Dashboards > Storage Summary. 2. Using the All Storage Objects widget, navigate to an object in the environment you want to explore, and view the Details page.
If the AppStack Environment widget is not displayed, click on Customize Page and add the widget, as described in Create, delete, modify, or restrict views.
For a full description of the AppStack Environment, and the features associated with it, see The AppStack Environment.
Use PerfStack™ with SRM
The Performance Analysis dashboard (PerfStack™) enables you to correlate historic data from SRM and many SolarWinds products in a single view. This makes it simple to troubleshoot issues, create ad-hoc reports, and make data-driven decisions on infrastructure changes.
Drag and drop performance metrics, events, and log data to a chart to perform deep analysis of what was going on in your environment when an issue occurred. Stack or superimpose metrics to immediately see correlations across your infrastructure.
The entities and metrics available to you depends on the SolarWinds products installed.
Depending on your account limitations, you may not have access to your complete infrastructure data set. However, all users can create Performance Analysis dashboards.
Create Performance Analysis dashboards
1. Click My Dashboards > Home > Performance Analysis to display the Performance Analysis dashboard. 2. Click Add Entities. This opens the Add Entities window where you can filter and search all the available entities and select those you want to use.
page 65 3. Click Add Selected Items to close the window. The selected entities are now displayed, and organized by category. 4. Click a gray triangle to expand an entity category.
To add all entities related to an entity, hover over the entity, and click the icon.
5. Highlight an entity to display the available metrics. Metrics are organized by categories. 6. Click a gray triangle to expand a metrics category.
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7. Drag a metric to the right area of the page and drop to create a new chart. Note that you can drop this metric above, below or onto the existing chart. 8. Repeat with additional entities and metrics to build the required charts.
9. Click the time range above the chart to set the time range for the chart. This can be relative (for example, Last 24 hours) or a specific date and time span.
page 67 10. Save the project.
Performance Analysis projects and changes to these charts are not automatically saved. If you create a new project or navigate away from the dashboard, any changes made since you last saved the project are lost.
Share Performance Analysis projects
Any saved analysis project can be shared by other users. Click Load to search for saved projects. Use other users' projects "as-is," or as the basis for new projects.
Projects you have not created can only be saved using More > Save As.
You can only delete projects you have created. If a user creates a project and is removed from the SolarWinds user list, the projects that user saved are not removed from the server.
You can also share the URL of a project. For example, you may use PerfStack™ to identify the root cause of an issue you are experiencing, and send the URL in a help desk ticket for a technician to view.
Troubleshooting
I do not see all the data I expect
The collected data depends on the products you install and how they are configured.
I do not see key entities
Performance Analysis charts respect account limitations. If your account is restricted from viewing certain entities or nodes, you cannot view their data in Performance Analysis dashboards.
Not all metrics I add are charted or data does not display correctly after I add more metrics
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This is usually due to browser limitations. Changes to the Performance Analysis dashboards are reflected in the URL. If you have a large amount of data, the URL may exceed the character limit for URLs in your particular browser.
Map your storage environment with SRM and other Orion modules
End-to-end mapping describes relations between SRM objects such as storage array, storage pool, LUNs, NAS volume, file share, and objects from other Orion Platform modules such as physical servers, virtual machines, datastores, applications, and so on. When mapped, these relationships can be viewed in AppStack.
Storage Resource Monitor provides end-to-end mapping of your storage environment so you can see how your storage devices and servers are connected. When you install SRM with Server and Application Monitor (SAM) 6.2 or later, you can observe end-to-end mapping for physical servers.
To map virtual servers (for example, VMware or Hyper-V) to your SAN or NAS device, you must have Virtualization Manager (6.2 or later), installed and integrated with the Virtualization Manager Orion Platform module (2.0 or later).
Learn more:
l Automatic end-to-end mapping
l Manual end-to-end mapping
Automatic end-to-end mapping
Automatic end-to-end (E2E) mapping has the following supported relations:
l SRM LUNs <> Volumes (for physical machines - windows servers polled via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and using FC/SCSI protocol)
l SRM LUNs <> Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Datastores
l SRM LUNs <> Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Virtual Machines (RDM mapping)
l SRM FileShares <> Virtualization Manager (VMAN) Datastores
Automatic end-to-end mapping of your physical servers
Prior to SRM 6.7, automatic end-to-end mapping was only available for Master Boot Record (MBR) drives. With SRM 6.7, support had been added for GUID Partition Table (GPT) drives in E2E mapping.
When installing SRM with SAM, the Network Storage Topology Resource is enabled automatically for any Windows device added after the install.
Any Windows device monitored by SAM prior to the installation of SRM will have the Network Storage Topology Resource disabled. To make SRM recognize the Windows servers added before the SRM installation, you must do one of the following:
page 69 l Select the node, go to Node Details and select List Resource on the Management widget. Here you can enable the Network Storage Topology Resource option.
l Run a network discovery on existing nodes to add the Network Storage Topology Resource. Please note the widget is not enabled after it is added.
The Network Storage Topology Resource does not work for Windows servers monitored with SNMP. All Windows servers must be monitored via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to use this feature. Windows Server 2003 and above can be monitored using WMI.
Automatic end-to-end mapping of virtual servers using VMware or Hyper V
Mapping your storage devices to your virtual environment requires SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN 6.2 or later) and the Virtualization Manager Orion Platform module (2.0 or later). After you install VMAN, the mapping is automated for virtual devices and no modifications are needed in SRM.
Manual end-to-end mapping
Relationships are discovered automatically for Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) nodes, except for SNMP nodes. This is because SRM is unable to get FC/iSCSI topology from non-Windows physical servers. You can manually create relations between SRM entities and other Orion Platform modules using manual end-to-end mapping.
1. Navigate to Settings > All Settings > SRM Settings. 2. Select Map Server Volumes to Storage Targets. The Manual Server Volume Mapping page is displayed. 3. Use the Group By drop-down menu to filter volumes as required (for example, by location or vendor).
Map a volume
1. Use the Show drop-down menu to show only unmapped server volumes. 2. Expand the server on which you want to map volumes.
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3. Select the volume to be mapped, and click Edit Mapping.
4. Select the storage object type from the Show drop-down, select the object to which you want to map the selected Server Volumes, and click Next.
5. Verify the mapping and click Finish.
Edit a volume mapping
1. Use the Show drop-down menu to show only mapped server volumes. 2. Expand the server with the volume you want to unmap. 3. Select the volume to be unmapped, and click Edit Mapping. 4. Select the new storage object type to map from the Show dropdown, select the object to which you want to map the selected server volumes, and click Next. 5. Verify the mapping and click Finish.
You can only edit a manual mapping.
Unmap a volume
1. Use the Show drop-down menu to show only mapped server volumes. 2. Expand the server on which you want to unmap volumes. 3. Select the volumes to unmap, and click Delete Mapping. The mapping is deleted.
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Manage Orion Web Console user accounts
Users need an Orion Web Console account to perform actions in your SolarWinds product, such as acknowledging alerts. Default account views and privileges are assigned in the account manager.
You may not need to grant all users accounts if they only need to review reports or access views. See Provide hyperlinks to views for more information.
Add users individually, add group accounts, or use Active Directory accounts. If a user is in multiple group accounts, the permissions of the group highest on the Groups tab of the Account Manager are applied to the user. By default SolarWinds uses MSAPI to authenticate Active Directory users, but you can authenticate users with LDAP.
To prevent issues with accounts, make sure that your SQL Server disables the no count connection option.
For more information, see the following topics:
l Creating users
l Define what users can access and do
l Set default account menu bars and views
l Limit users to access to network areas
Use alerts to monitor your IPAM environment
Gain immediate insight into the status and performance of your subnets and DHCP scope management with IPAM alerts. Use IPAM alerts to solve issues before they become problems for your database customers. Set thresholds on key wait time statistics or on standard administration indicators. That way you receive an early warning of potential problems, and can take steps to solve the underlying issue before it affects users.
An alert is an automated notification that a network event has occurred, such as a server becoming unresponsive. The network event that triggers an alert is determined by conditions you set up when you configure your alert. You can schedule alerts to monitor your network during a specific time period, and create alerts that notify different people based on how long the alert has been triggered.
The types of events for which you can create alerts vary, depending on the Orion Platform products you have installed. For example, you can create an alert to notify you if a node in a specific location goes down or if the network response time is too slow when you have NPM. If you have installed SAM, you can receive alerts about application response times or when your Exchange mailbox database is almost full.
You can create alerts for any monitored object. You can alert against volumes and nodes with most Orion Platform products.
See the following topics to get started if you have never used Orion Platform products:
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l Alert preconfiguration tasks in the Orion Platform
l Best practices and tips for alerting in the Orion Platform
l Navigate to the Alert Manager in the Orion Platform
l Create new alerts to monitor your environment with the Orion Platform
l Alert me when a server goes down in the Orion Platform
Use the following topics to get started with web-based alerts if you have upgraded to Core version 2018.4 or later:
l Changes in the alerting engine
l Manually set a custom status in the Orion Platform
l Build complex conditions in the Orion Platform
l Manage alert actions in the Orion Platform
You can also view our Alert Lab on THWACK for community-based alert information.
Manage the Orion Web Console
The Orion Web Console is an integral part of the Orion Platform products and can be accessed from virtually any computer connected to the Internet.
To customize the Orion Web Console, you need administrator rights.
You can customize the Orion Web Console for multiple users, update polling settings and thresholds, and store individually customized views as user profiles.
l Log in for the first time as an Administrator
l Managing Orion Polling Engines
l Thresholds
l Manage Orion Web Console user accounts
l Administrative functions of the Orion Web Console
l Filter nodes in widgets using SQL queries
License Orion Platform products
SolarWinds Orion Platform products use the web-based License Manager to license products, Additional Polling Engines (APE), Additional Web Servers (AWS), and High Availability (HA) pools.
Orion Platform products support both perpetual licenses and subscription licenses. See License types in the Orion Platform documentation for details.
Your main Orion server acts as a licensing server. It cannot be down for more that 14 days or your licenses may be invalidated.
Click Settings > All Settings, scroll down, and click License Manager in the Details grouping to view and manage your licenses.
page 73 The web-based License Manager replaces the stand-alone License Manager in Orion Platform products. If you have upgraded from a previous version of your Orion Platform product, you can still use the stand-alone Windows version for Orion Platform 2016.2 and lower. New installs use the web-based License Manager only. If you have upgraded to the new web-based License Manager, SolarWinds recommends that you uninstall the standalone version.
What can I do in the web-based License Manager?
l Activate or deactivate licenses.
l Upgrade licenses.
l Assign licenses to a server.
l Migrate licenses from one server to another.
l Synchronize licenses.
Manage reports in the Orion Web Console
SolarWinds provides predefined reports for each Orion Platform product. You can use the reports as soon as there is data to be reported on.
View a list of predefined reports by clicking Reports > All Reports in the menu bar.
Use the web-based interface to customize the predefined reports or create your own reports.
The Orion Web Console does not allow you to edit legacy reports created with the Orion Report Writer. Use the Report Writer to edit these.
For more information see:
l Modify an existing web-based report
l Create a new web-based report
l Customize a web-based report layout
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l Add content to a web-based report
l Add a custom chart or table to a web-based report
l Restrict who can access reports
l Generate reports on a schedule
l Export reports
l Modify an existing web-based report
High Availability in SolarWinds products
SolarWinds High Availability (HA) provides failover protection for your Orion server and additional polling engines to reduce data loss when your primary server goes down. If your primary server fails, the HA feature allows your secondary server to take over all services, such as polling and alerting, with minimal downtime. SolarWinds HA protects your main server, also known as your main polling engine, and additional polling engines. It does not protect your databases or your additional web servers.
SolarWinds supports physical-to-physical, physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-physical, and virtual-to-virtual failover in an IPv4 single subnet (High Availability) or multi-subnet (Disaster Recovery) environment. You can deploy High Availability on both a single subnet and multiple subnets using the same SolarWinds installation.
How does SolarWinds High Availability work?
Single subnet (LAN)
When you configure your environment for SolarWinds High Availability on a single subnet, place your secondary server on the same subnet as the primary server. Configure the secondary server to use the same network and database resources as the primary server. In the Orion Web Console, add both servers to an HA pool, which is accessed through a single Virtual IP (VIP) address or virtual hostname to route incoming requests and messages to the current, active server.
The SolarWinds HA software monitors the health of both servers in the pool, and both servers keep open communication channels over TCP port 5671 to exchange information. When a critical service goes down, such as the SolarWinds Information Service, the software starts the service. If the service goes down a second time within an hour, the software initiates a failover to the standby server.
After a failover to the secondary server is complete, the secondary server becomes the active server and continues to act as the active server until another failover event occurs. The secondary server assumes all of the responsibilities of the primary server, including receiving syslogs, SNMP traps, and NetFlow information through the VIP or virtual hostname. You can manually failover to your primary server to return it to active service.
If you have deployed Orion agents, agents that report to the primary server are updated with the IP addresses of the HA pool members. When the server fails over, the agents send data to the active HA pool member's IP address.
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When you configure your environment for SolarWinds High Availability over a WAN (Disaster Recovery), place your secondary server in the same DNS zone as your primary server. Configure the secondary server to use the same database resources as the primary server. In the Orion Web Console, add both servers to an HA pool, which is accessed through a single virtual hostname to route incoming requests and messages to the current, active server. You can have only two servers in a pool.
The SolarWinds HA software monitors the health of both servers in the pool, and both servers keep open communication channels over TCP port 5671 to exchange information. When a critical service goes down, such as the SolarWinds Information Service, the software starts the service. If the service goes down a second time within an hour, the software initiates a failover to the standby server and edits the DNS host entry to point to the standby server.
After a failover to the secondary server is complete, the secondary server becomes the active server and continues to act as the active server until another failover event occurs. The secondary server assumes all of the responsibilities of primary server, including receiving syslogs, SNMP traps, and NetFlow information through the virtual hostname. You can manually failover to your primary server to return it to active service.
If you have deployed Orion agents, agents that report to the primary server are updated with the IP addresses of the HA pool members. When the server fails over, the agents send data to the active HA pool member's IP address.
For more information, see:
l How failovers work
l When do I use a VIP or virtual host name?
l Which IP address is used as the source when using a VIP?
l Modify additional SolarWinds components when using High Availability
l High Availability deployment walk-through
l Disable or delete HA pools, force a failover, or update an HA pool
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Widgets
SRM widgets
The SolarWinds Orion Web Console gives you access to dashboards with widgets that use charts and tables to visually convey current and historic storage data, using visually impactful charts and tables.
Hover over a highlighted object to display a popup showing current information.
Click on the object to navigate to its detail page.
For widgets containing tables or lists, a search box is available. Only the first column of data in the table is searched.
Click Edit to customize the widget.
Click Help to open the online help topic for this widget.
You can configure the default widgets on the Storage Summary, Performance Dashboard, and Capacity Dashboard. Select from over 60 widgets specifically provided for SRM to create a personalized dashboard.
The Getting Started Monitoring File Storage for EMC VNX Arrays widget is unique in that it does not show data, but enables you to quickly add storage devices to be monitored.
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You can easily customize a dashboard or view by adding additional widgets.
1. From the view to which you want to add the widget, click the Customize Page icon in the upper left. 2. Click Add Widgets in the upper right corner. The Add Widgets view is displayed.
Select how you want to group the widgets for display. This can be by Type, by Feature or Classic.
Select the widget group from the resulting list.
Drag the required widget...
... to where you want it to appear. This can be between existing widgets.
3. Add further widgets as required. 4. Click Done Adding Widgets. 5. The Customize Page view is displayed. 6. Click Done Editing.
You can have multiple copies of the same widget on a page if you have edited them to show different information. Use the Title and subtitle settings to differentiate them.
For more information on managing views and widgets, see Views and widgets in SRM .
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SRM widgets (A - C)
All Active Alerts on Storage Objects or Active Alerts on this...
This widget is displayed on the Storage Summary, Capacity Dashboard, and Performance Dashboards, or on the Details page of individual objects.
When displayed on the Storage Home Dashboard this widget lists all active alerts for your SolarWinds Orion products.
If the All Active Alerts link is displayed, click to display the All Active Alerts page for all SolarWinds Orion products in your network. From this page you can manage and create alerts.
Click Edit to change the title and subtitle or to display or hide alerts.
Aggregated NAS Volume Capacity
This widget provides a pie chart that shows the aggregated used and free capacity for all NAS volumes currently being monitored by SRM.
Click Edit to change the title and subtitle.
All Active Alerts on Storage Objects or Active Alerts on this...
This widget is displayed on the Storage Summary, Capacity Dashboard, and Performance Dashboards, or on the Details page of individual objects.
When displayed on the Storage Home Dashboard this widget lists all active alerts for your SolarWinds Orion products.
If the All Active Alerts link is displayed, click to display the All Active Alerts page for all SolarWinds Orion products in your network. From this page you can manage and create alerts.
Click Edit to change the title and subtitle or to display or hide alerts.
All Storage Objects
This widget provides a tree of all storage objects in your environment, enabling you to drill down to, and access the Details page of any object.
By default, arrays are grouped by vendor and can be customized as needed.
Click an object name to go to the object Details page.
Click Edit to:
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l Group objects. You can use the vendor, model, or storage array custom properties to group storage arrays. For example, to group by geographical location, create a Storage Array custom property called Location, and select this in these settings. The grouping methods you select are displayed under the widget title.
For information on creating and editing custom properties, see Custom properties for information on creating and editing custom properties.
l List objects in order of name or status.
l Retain the expanded state when you leave this view.
l Always expand or always close root level grouping.
l Specify the number of objects initially displayed in the tree
l Experienced users can filter the objects displayed using an SWQL query. Example SWQL queries are: StorageArray.Name = 'NFCXTREMIO' Lun.UserCaption like '%ESX%' Pool.Status > 0 StorageArray.CustomProperties.PropertyName = 'property value'
If no objects are displayed when the filter is applied, the following message is shown: Applied filter returned no data. Click Edit and check settings.
For information on using SWQL, see Using SWQL (SolarWinds Web Query Language).
Array Details
This widget displays hardware and software information about the selected array.
For Net App clusters, this is labeled Cluster Details.
Click Manage to open the Edit storage object properties in SRM page and manage the name, polling properties, custom properties, and alerting thresholds for this array.
Click Performance Analyser to use the Performance Analysis dashboard (PerfStack™) to correlate historic data from SRM and many SolarWinds products in a single view.
Click the Monitoring Provider IP address to display the Provider Details page.
Click Edit to change the title and subtitle.
Array Polling Details
This widget displays Capacity, Performance, and Topology polling details for the selected array or cluster.
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Capacity / Performance The interval between polls for each polling type. / Topology / Controller Interval
Last Capacity / The date and time this array or cluster was last polled. Performance / Topology l If Last Poll Time is displayed in black, SRM was able to poll data in the / Controller Poll Time defined interval.
l If Last Poll Time is displayed in red, SRM has not been able to poll data within the defined interval.
This can be the result of the polling interval being set below that recommended by the device vendor, or else there may be a connectivity issue.
l If "Waiting for first poll" is displayed in black instead of a date and time, the first poll of data since the array or cluster was added is in progress.
l If "Waiting for first poll" is displayed in red instead of a date and time, no successful poll of data has occurred since the storage array or cluster was added, and the polling interval has passed.
Array Licensed If this array is covered by the SRM license.
Click Manage to display the Edit storage object properties in SRM page for this array or cluster.
Click Edit to customize:
l Change the title and subtitle.
Array Status
For Net App Clusters or Vservers, this is labeled Cluster or Vserver Status.
This widget summarizes data metrics for the current array, cluster, or Vserver using the following charts:
Aggregate IOPS The average number of input/output operations per second for the selected period for this array. A bar chart showing average IOPS for each hour in the selected period.
Click the label to open the IOPS Performance widget.
Average Throughput Average throughput in kilobytes per second for the selected period for this array. A bar chart shows the average throughput for each hour in the selected period.
Click the label to open the Throughput Performance widget.
Usable Capacity Fill chart showing total useable capacity on this array, and the percentage currently being used.
page 81 NAS Capacity Fill chart showing the total NAS capacity, if any NAS volumes are present on this array, and the percentage currently being used.
The Aggregate IOPS and Average Throughput bar charts can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours, or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons.
All performance values in SRM for Arrays and Pools are aggregated from LUNs. Note that SRM does not take into account LUN Snapshot performance data.
Click Edit to change the title and subtitle.
Arrays on this Server
This widget provides a list of the storage arrays that use the selected provider.
Click Manage to access the Manage Storage Objects page for the arrays that use this provider. For more information, see Edit storage object properties in SRM.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Change the number of arrays displayed at a time.
Capacity Summary
For LUNs, volumes, and file shares, this widget shows basic capacity information.
Total Size Total capacity of the object.
File The sum of used capacity of server volumes created on this object and monitored in SRM. System The server volumes created must be manually or automatically mapped to the object to be Used reported here.
Consumed Total amount of space allocated for this object.
Projected Estimated time remaining before the object runs out of space. This projection is calculated Run-Out using the last three months of statistics.
Remaining Total Size less the amount of consumed capacity.
This chart may also include a tree structure showing the capacities of the immediate children of the current object.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle of the widget.
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Custom Properties for File Shares
This widget displays any custom properties set up for a file share.
If custom properties have been created for file shares, click Edit Custom Property Values to display the Edit Properties page, where you can update the values for the properties, and also access the Manage Custom Properties page to create custom properties.
See Custom properties for information on creating and editing custom properties.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Hide selected custom properties.
Custom Properties for LUNs
The widget displays any custom properties set up for the selected LUN.
If custom properties have been created for LUNs, click Edit Custom Property Values to display the Edit Properties page, where you can update the values for the properties, and also access the Manage Custom Properties page to create custom properties.
See Custom properties for information on creating and editing custom properties.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Hide selected custom properties.
Custom Properties for Pools
This widget displays any custom properties set up for a storage pools.
If custom properties have been created for storage pools, click Edit Custom Property Values to display the Edit Properties page, where you can update the values for the properties, and also access the Manage Custom Properties page to create custom properties.
See Custom properties for information on creating and editing custom properties.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Hide selected custom properties.
Custom Properties for Storage Arrays
This widget displays any custom properties set up for a storage arrays.
If custom properties have been created for storage arrays, click Edit Custom Property Values to display the Edit Properties page, where you can update the values for the properties, and also access the Manage Custom Properties page to create custom properties.
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Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Hide selected custom properties.
Custom Properties for Storage Providers
This widget displays any custom properties that have been set up for a storage array.
If custom properties have been created for storage providers, click Edit Custom Property Values to display the Edit Properties page, where you can update the values for the properties, and also access the Manage Custom Properties page to create custom properties.
See Custom properties for information on creating and editing custom properties.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Hide selected custom properties.
Custom Properties for Volumes
This widget displays any custom properties set up for a volume.
If custom properties have been created for volumes, click Edit Custom Property Values to display the Edit Properties page, where you can update the values for the properties, and also access the Manage Custom Properties page to create custom properties.
See Custom properties for information on creating and editing custom properties.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Hide selected custom properties.
Custom Properties for VServers
This widget displays any custom properties that have been set up for a storage array.
If custom properties have been created for Vservers, click Edit Custom Property Values to display the Edit Properties page, where you can update the values for the properties, and also access the Manage Custom Properties page to create custom properties.
See Custom properties for information on creating and editing custom properties.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Hide selected custom properties.
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SRM widgets (D - M)
Disks on this Array or Cluster
This widget lists all disks associated with the current array or cluster, showing size and type. You can filter the list of disks displayed by status.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Change the number of disks shown at a time.
File Share Details
This widget displays status, hardware, and software information for the selected file share.
Click Manage to open the Edit Properties page, where you can change the name of the file share.
Click Edit to change the title and subtitle.
Free LUNs
This widget provides a list of free LUNs on this array, cluster, NAS volume, or pool. Click the name of a LUN to open the LUN details page.
A free LUN is a LUN that has been created, but has not been assigned.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Change the number of free LUNs displayed at a time.
Getting Started Monitoring File Storage for EMC VNX Arrays
Use the Getting Started Monitoring File Storage for EMC VNX Arrays widget to configure the array to monitor file storage data in addition to block storage data using a combination of onboard SMI-S Provider and XML APIs.
Click Configure This Array to open the Edit storage object properties in SRM page for this array.
You need the API credentials for the array to enable file storage monitoring.
For more information on enabling EMC VNX Arrays, see the Enable the Solutions Enabler Appliance knowledge base article.
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Click the IO Size label on the Performance Summary widget for a storage object to access the IOPS performance widget. It shows the average size, in kilobytes, of total, read and write input/output operations for a selected time period.
You can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours/ or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons, or set the start and end points from the historical data selection to select a custom period/ by setting the start and end points from the historical data selection shown below the charts.
IOPS Performance
Click the IOPS label on the Performance Summary widget to show the IOPS Performance for a storage object. It shows the total, read, write and other input/output operations per second for the selected time period.
You can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours, or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons, or set the start and end points from the historical data selection to select a custom period, by setting the start and end points from the historical data selection shown below the charts.
IOPS Performance per Related LUN or NAS Volume
This widget provides a chart comparing input/output operations per second (IOPS) for the current LUN or NAS volume with the other LUNs or NAS volumes in the same storage pool.
You can select Read, Write, Other, or Total data.
You can select which LUNs or Volumes are shown, and also show the aggregate total for the pool.
You can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours, or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons, or set the start and end points from the historical data selection to select a custom period, by setting the start and end points from the historical data selection shown below the charts.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle of the widget.
l Change the maximum number of LUNs or volumes to be displayed.
l Change the default zoom range, amount of historical data to load, and sample interval.
l Add a chart title and subtitle.
Latency Histogram for LUNs or NAS volumes
This widget is displayed on the details page for a storage pool, and shows the distribution of latency performance for the LUNs or NAS Volumes in the pool.
Latency totals are grouped into distinct ranges (0-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, 21-30, 31-50, 51-100, 101-500, 501- 1000, 1000+ ms). The height of each bar shows the number of LUNs or volumes currently performing in that range. The color of the bar shows if the latency values are considered normal (blue), warning (yellow) or critical (red).
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Move the cursor over the bars to show the exact number of LUNs or NAS volumes.
Click on the histogram to display a tabbed grid detailing all LUNs or NAS Volumes for the selected time period, grouped by latency. Total, write, read, and other latencies are given for each object.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Change the default zoom.
l Add a chart title and subtitle.
Latency Performance
Click the Latency label on the Performance Summary widget to display the Latency Performance widget for a storage object. It charts the latency for the current storage object. Latency is calculated as the average time it takes to process a single input/output transaction.
You can select Read, Write, Other, or Total data.
You can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours, or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons, or set the start and end points from the historical data selection to select a custom period, by setting the start and end points from the historical data selection shown below the charts.
Latency Performance per Related LUN or NAS Volume
This widget charts the latency for the current LUN or NAS volume compared with the other LUNS or NAS volumes in the same storage pool. The chart shows the warning and critical threshold for this object.
You can select Read, Write, Other, or Total data.
You can select which LUNs or volumes are displayed.
You can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons, or select a custom period by setting the start and end points from the historical data selection shown below the charts.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Change the maximum number of LUNs or NAS volumes displayed.
l Change the default zoom range.
l Change the amount of historical data to load, and specify the sample interval.
l Add a chart title and subtitle.
LUN Details
This widget provides information for the current LUN. Status The status for the LUN.
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UUID The universally unique identifier for this LUN.
Cache Only displayed if cache enabling is available for the array, and indicates whether Enabled LUN caching is enabled. This can be True or False.
Storage Pool The status and name of the storage pool to which this LUN is assigned. Click on the name to open the Details page for the storage pool.
Array The status and name of the storage array to which this LUN is assigned. Click on the name to open the details page for this array.
Vendor The LUN status code provided by vendor. This is vendor specific and may not be Status Code the same as the status reported by SRM.
Raid The type of RAID configuration for the storage array to which this LUN belongs. Configuration For example, RAID-5, RAID-10. Type
Type The type of provisioning used. This can be Thin or Thick.
Host Masks A list of hosts authorized to access this LUN is displayed.
Associated If any endpoints are associated with this LUN, they are listed here. Endpoints Associated endpoints are only displayed if physical or virtual storage devices have been mapped to the LUN. See Map your storage environment with SRM and other Orion modules for more information.
Protocol The Host connectivity protocol, such as Fiber Channel or iCSI.
Read Only Indicates whether the LUN is read-only. This can be True or False.
Mapped Indicates whether the LUN is mapped (available) to any hosts. This can be True or False.
Total Size Total storage capacity available.
File System The size of the file system running on top of the block-storage from the end Used consumer, if known. Capacity
Consumed The total capacity consumed from the storage pool or underlying volume by this Capacity LUN.
Last The date and time that the SRM database was last updated with information for Database this LUN. Update
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Projected Estimated time remaining before the LUN runs out of capacity. This projection is Run-out calculated using the last three months of statistics.
"Passed" is displayed if all capacity is consumed.
Click Manage to access the Edit storage object properties in SRM page, where you can edit thresholds for this LUN.
Click Edit to change the title and subtitle of the widget.
LUN Masking
This widget shows LUN masking information.
Host The logical grouping of initiators (hosts) and LUNs. The LUNs in the group are visible to all Group the initiators in the group. Sometimes this group may contain storage array ports as well. Different array vendors use different names such as Storage Group, iGroup, etc.
Host The alias given to the initiator (host) or initiator port. Normally the hostname of the initiator. Alias
Initiator The number used by initiators in a Host Group to identify a LUN. The LUN ID is unique within LUN ID the Host Group.
Initiator The WWPN (World Wide Port Name) or IQN (iSCSI Qualified Name) of the initiator port. Endpoint
Target The WWPN or IQN of the port on the target (storage array) through which the LUN is Endpoint accessible to the hosts.
UUID The globally unique identifier of LUN.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Change the number of LUNs displayed.
LUNs by Performance
This widget displays a summary of all LUNs being monitored by SRM. By default LUNs are listed by IOPS.
LUNs can be filtered using the search box, and sorted by any of the columns displayed.
If any value exceeds the Warning or Critical thresholds the cell background will change to Yellow (Warning), or Red (Critical).
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Change the number of LUNs displayed.
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This widget provides links than enable the management of the selected array or cluster. Edit Array/Cluster Click to open the Edit storage object properties in SRM page for this device, where you can edit the name, polling frequencies, array credentials, custom properties and alerting thresholds for this array or cluster.
Unmanage Click to suspend or resume polling for this array or cluster. You can specify a start and end date for the period you want the device to be unmanaged.
If the device is currently unmanaged, this link will show Manage. Click to immediately start polling data again.
Statistics Poll Click to immediately gather performance data for this device.
Topology Poll Click to immediately gather LUN masking data for this device.
Controller Poll Click to immediately gather controller data for this device.
Rediscover Click to initiate an immediate rediscovery of this device, to ensure all attached entities have been discovered.
Map Server Volumes Click to open the Manual Server Volume Mapping page, enabling you to manually map volumes from servers where automatic mapping is not currently available.
Performance Analyzer Click Performance Analyzer to use the Performance Analysis dashboard (PerfStack™) to correlate historic data from SRM and many SolarWinds products in a single view.
Click Edit to change the title and subtitle.
SRM widgets (N - S)
NAS CIFS/SMB Shares
This widget displays all NAS CIFS/SMB (Common Internet File System / Server Message Block) exports in the storage environment.
Name The status icon and name of the file share.
Host The IP address or DNS name of the share host.
Path The file system path for the share.
Volume Size The size of the backing NAS Volume.
Quota Total Size of quota, If known.
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Used The amount of space used.
Used (%) Amount of used space as percentage of volume size.
Free Remaining space.
Projected File Run Out Estimated time remaining before the file runs out of capacity. This projection is calculated using the last three months of statistics.
"Passed" is displayed if all capacity is consumed.
Click on the Name of a share to display the File Share Details page.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Change number of shares displayed.
NAS NFS Exports
This widget lists all NAS NFS (Network File System) exports on the NAS volume. Name The name assigned to this export.
Host The IP address or DNS name of the export.
Path The path to this export.
Volume Size The size of the export.
Quota Total Size of quota, If known.
Used The amount of space used.
Used (%) Amount of used space as percentage of volume size.
Free Remaining space.
Projected Run-out Estimated time remaining before the file share runs out of capacity. This projection is calculated using the last three months of statistics.
"Passed" is displayed if all capacity is consumed.
Click on the Name of a share to display the File Share Details page.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Change the number of exports displayed.
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This widget displays performance information about all NAS Volumes being monitored by SRM.
Volumes can be filtered using the search box, and sorted by any of the columns displayed.
If any value exceeds the Warning or Critical thresholds the cell background will change to Yellow (Warning), or Red (Critical).
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Change the number of NAS volumes displayed at a time.
Performance Comparison
For a selected storage array or cluster, this widget enables you to select two sets of performance data from drop-down menus and compare them on a chart.
You can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons, or select a custom period by setting the start and end points from the historical data selection shown below the charts.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Add a chart title and subtitle.
l Change the default zoom range, the amount of historical data to load and the sample interval.
Performance Summary
This widget displays stacked performance metric charts for the selected storage object. Move the cursor over the chart to compare values for all metrics for a specific polling time.
These charts show totals for each metric: click the gray triangle to expand, showing individual charts for read, write and other metrics.
Click on the label of a metric to open as its own widget.
IOPS The number of Input/output operations per second for the selected device.
Latency The time required to process a single input/output transaction. This is from the receipt of the input/output request to the request being acknowledged.
Because of the way data is made available by some arrays, this metric is not displayed for all arrays.
Throughput The amount of data transferred per second.
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IO Size The average size of an input-output operation. This is calculated as the number of transferred bytes divided by the number of input/output operations.
R/W IOPS Ratio The ratio of read to write operations on this object.
Because of the way data is made available by some arrays, this metric is not displayed for all arrays.
Cache Hit Ratio The ratio of cache hits to misses, expressed as a percentage.
l A cache hit is when data requested for processing is found in cache memory
l A cache miss is when data requested for processing is not found in cache memory
Because of the way data is made available by some arrays, this metric is not displayed for all arrays.
Utilization This value represents how busy a storage controller is, showing an average of utilization across all the cores of the storage processor.
You can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons or set the start and end points from the historical data selection to select a custom period.
All performance data in SRM for storage arrays and pools are aggregated from the associated LUNs. SRM does not take into account snapshot performance data.
Click Edit to customize the Performance Summary widget. You can:
l Change the title and subtitle of the widget.
l Change the default zoom range, the amount of historical data (up to one year), and the sample interval for summarizing data.
l Add an additional title and subtitle to the chart.
Raw Disk Capacity Summary
Depending on the dashboard on which it is viewed, this widget displays a summary of raw capacity for all arrays in the storage environment, or for the selected array.
On the Storage Summary dashboard, this shows a graphic bar for each array in the storage environment. Click on an array name to display the Array Details page.
For individual arrays, data is displayed for the selected array. Raw Capacity For individual arrays this is the total capacity of the array. This is the total used, spare and free capacity.
Spare The sum of capacity of all disks or extents that are reserved for the purpose of substitution in case allocated disk or extent failure.
page 93 Total Used Capacity / The total amount of space on the storage system or selected array which has Used been assigned to be written by an end user or application. For Flash-based arrays such as Pure and Xtreme IO, this will always be displayed as the same as Raw Capacity. You should refer to the Usable Capacity Summary to see the actual Used and Remaining capacities.
Total Free Capacity / The total free space is normally the same as raw capacity less the amount of total Free / Remaining used capacity already written. See above for Flash-based arrays.
Click Edit to customize the Raw Disk Capacity Summary widget. You can:
l Change the title and subtitle of the widget.
l Change the number of arrays displayed.
Read/Write IOPS Ratio / Cache Hit Ratio
This widget is accessed by clicking the R/W IOPS Ratio or Cache Hit Ratio label on the Performance Summary widget.
l The R/W IOPS Ratio chart shows the ratio of read to write input/output operations per second (IOPS).
l The Cache Hit Ratio chart shows the ratio of cache hits (where the data requested for processing is found in cache memory) to misses (where it is not), expressed as a percentage.
You can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours, or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons, or set the start and end points from the historical data selection to select a custom period, by setting the start and end points from the historical data selection shown below the charts.
Server Details
This widget shows status, hardware, and software information for the selected SRM provider.
Click Manage to open the Edit Properties page for this server.
Click Edit to change the title and subtitle.
Server Volumes by Capacity
This widget provides a lists of all server volumes being monitored in the storage environment.
For each server volume, the volume status and IP address, total size, file system used capacity, and file system used percentage are displayed. Used capacity is highlighted in yellow or red if the warning or critical threshold had been reached or exceeded.
Volumes can be sorted by any column.
You can search the list of server volumes by entering any part of the volume name in the search box.
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Projected File Run Out shows the estimated time remaining before the volume runs out of space. Statistics are gathered from the last 3 months and are projected to a linear prediction that calculates the date when Run-Out will be reached.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Specify the number of Volumes displayed.
Servers on this...
This widget displays a collapsible tree that shows all servers for which there are manual or automatic mappings to the selected storage object, or any of its children. Any applications associated with the servers and their volumes are also shown.
The mapped server volumes are listed, along with a chart of latest capacity values, linked to the mapped storage object.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Display servers by name or status.
l Display the tree of servers in the same expanded state as when last viewed.
l Always expand root level.
Storage Objects by Capacity Risk
This widget displays all storage objects currently being monitored by SRM, listed by capacity risk. Object already at full capacity are shown first, followed by devices approaching full capacity.
Spark charts show usage over the last seven days for each object. Move the cursor over the line to show amount of storage used in that period, The icon and percentage after the spark chart show how this has increased or decreased between the last two pollings.
The estimates for when warning (90% used), critical (95% used) and capacity (100% used) thresholds will be met are calculated using data from recent pollings. If this data is too erratic, "Passed" is displayed. If these are presently met or exceeded, the data is highlighted in yellow, red or black and "Now" displayed.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Number of objects displayed.
l Filter objects using simple SQL queries. For example: o TYPE = 'LUN' to list only LUNs. o ARRAY LIKE 'lan-netapp%' to list only objects with an array name starting with 'lan- netapp'.
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This widget displays all storage objects currently being monitored by SRM. Objects are listed by highest latency, that is the objects with the poorest performance are shown first.
Latency The time in milliseconds required to process a single input/output transaction (from receipt of the input/output request to it being acknowledged).
IOPS Input/Output Operations per second. An input/output operation is a read, write, or control function performed to, from or within a computer system.
Throughput Amount of data transferred per unit time calculated between two SRM performance polls.
If Latency, IOPS and Throughput meet or exceed the critical or warning thresholds, they are highlighted in yellow or red.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Number of objects displayed.
l Filter objects using simpleSQL queries. For example: o TYPE = 'LUN' to list only LUNs. o LATENCY > 10 to list objects with a latency higher than 10 ms. o ARRAY LIKE 'lan-netapp%' to list only objects with an array name starting with 'lan- netapp'.
Storage Pool Capacity Summary
This widget displays the total usage capacity (the aggregated amount of all formatted, RAID-configured and presented storage capacity that can actually be used), showing the used and free amount in a fill chart.
The chart may also include a tree structure showing the capacities of the immediate children of the current object. A Storage Pool shows either all the LUNs or NAS Volumes depending on whether the Storage Pool is a File or Block pool.
Each item in the tree is clickable to display the LUN or NAS Volume Detail pages.
Total The total physical capacity of the storage pool. This capacity can be used for creating LUNs Usable and Volumes. Capacity
Total Amount of capacity configured for LUNs and Volumes from this pool. Subscribed
Projected Estimated time remaining before the Storage Pool runs out of space. This projection is Run-Out calculated using the last three months of statistics.
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Provisioned The amount of capacity consumed by all LUNs and Volumes allocated from this Pool.
Data The savings achieved due to pattern removal, de-dup and compression for the data stored Reduction by host. This does not include savings related to thin provisioning.
Remaining The amount of capacity currently available for provisioning. Calculated as Total Usable Capacity.
Over- The capacity configured for LUNs subscribed from this pool that exceeds the physical Subscribed capacity. This is the difference between Total Subscribed capacity and the Total Usable Capacity.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Change the page size.
Storage Pool Details
This widget displays status, hardware and software information for the selected storage pool.
Some vendors do not make all information available, therefore some fields may not be displayed.
Storage Pool Status Status of the storage pool.
Name The name of this storage pool.
Array Status and name of array to which this storage pool is assigned.
Vendor Status Code The vendor status for this pool. This is vendor-specific so may be different to the status determined by SRM.
Type Storage Pool.
LUN Count Number of LUNs in storage pool.
Total Usable Capacity The total physical capacity of the storage pool available for creating LUNs or metadata.
Total Subscribed Capacity The total capacity configured for LUNs that are subscribed from this pool.
Over-Subscribed Capacity The capacity configured for LUNs subscribed from this pool that exceeds the physical capacity. This is the difference between Total Subscribed Capacity and Total User Capacity
page 97 Provisioned Capacity The amount of usable capacity consumed by all LUNs allocated from this pool. It may include the capacity reserved (not yet in use) for the LUNs if the array supports reservation.
Total reduction The savings achieved by using all space efficiency techniques. It includes pattern removal, de-dup, compression, thin provisioning.
Data reduction The savings achieved due to pattern removal, de-dup and compression for the data stored by host. This does not include savings related to thin provisioning.
Last Database Update The date and time when the information for this storage pool was last updated.
Projected Run-out Estimated time remaining before the NAS volume runs out of space. This projection is calculated using the last three months of statistics.
Click Manage to go to the Edit storage object properties in SRM page, where you can manage the name, custom properties and alerting thresholds for this pool.
Click Edit to change the title and subtitle.
SRM widgets (T - V)
Thick LUNs (by Capacity)
When displayed on a summary dashboard, this widget provides a lists of all thick LUNs currently being monitored in the storage environment.
When displayed on a storage object details page, this widget provides a lists of all thick LUNs associated with the object.
A thick LUN is a LUN that has all of its capacity reserved and allocated in the storage pool when created.
For each LUN, the LUN status and name, storage pool status, and name, associated endpoint, total size, and file system used capacity (if known) is displayed. Used capacity is highlighted in yellow or red if the warning or critical threshold has been reached or exceeded.
LUNs can be sorted by any column.
You can search the list of LUNs by entering any part of the LUN name in the search box.
Associated endpoints are only displayed if physical or virtual storage devices have been mapped to the LUN. See Map your storage environment with SRM and other Orion modules for more information.
Click Edit to:
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l Change the title and subtitle.
l Specify the number of LUNs displayed at a time.
Thick NAS Volumes (by Capacity)
When displayed on a summary dashboard, this widget provides a lists of all thick NAS Volumes in the environment.
When displayed on a storage object details page, this widget provides a lists of all thick NAS Volumes associated with the object.
A thick NAS volume has all of its capacity reserved and allocated when created.
For each volume, the volume status and name, storage pool status and name, total size, file system used capacity and filer system used percentage are displayed. Used capacity is highlighted in yellow or red if the warning or critical threshold had been reached or exceeded.
Projected File Run Out shows the estimated time remaining before the volume runs out of space. Statistics are gathered from the last 3 months and are projected to a linear prediction that calculates the date when Run-Out will be reached.
Volumes can be sorted by any column.
You can search the list of volumes by entering any part of the LUN name in the search box.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Specify the number of Volumes displayed.
Thick Storage Pools (by Capacity)
When displayed on a summary dashboard, this widget provides a lists of all storage pools being monitored in the storage environment.
When displayed on a storage object detail page, this widget provides a lists of all storage pools being monitored for the object.
A thick storage pool is one that has all of its capacity reserved and allocated when created.
For each storage pool, the status and name, type, total size, and provisioned capacity. Provisioned capacity is highlighted in yellow or red if the warning or critical threshold has been reached or exceeded.
Storage pools can be sorted by any column.
You can search the list of pools by entering any part of the storage pool name in the search box.
Click Edit to:
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l Specify the number of storage pools displayed.
Thin LUNs (by Capacity)
When displayed on a summary dashboard, this widget provides a lists of all thin LUNs being monitored in the storage environment.
When displayed on a storage object details page, this widget provides a lists of all thin LUNs associated with the object.
A thin, or virtual, LUN is a representation of a storage area and not tied to any physical storage allocation.
LUNs can be sorted by any column.
For each thin LUN, the status and name, storage pool, associated endpoint, total size, and provisioned capacity, provisioned capacity percentage, file system used capacity, and file system used percentage.
Associated endpoints are only displayed if physical or virtual storage devices have been mapped to the LUN. See Map your storage environment with SRM and other Orion modules for more information.
Provisioned capacity and Provisioned %, are highlighted in yellow or red if the warning or critical threshold had been reached or exceeded.
You can search the list of LUNs by entering any part of the LUN name in the search box.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Specify the number of LUNs displayed.
Thin NAS Volumes (by Capacity)
When displayed on a summary dashboard, this widget provides a lists of all thin NAS Volumes being monitored in the storage environment.
When displayed on a storage object details page, this widget provides a lists of all thin NAS Volumes associated with the object.
For each volume, the volume status and name, storage pool status and name, total size, file system used capacity (if known), and file system used percentage is displayed. Used capacity is highlighted in yellow or red if the warning or critical threshold had been reached or exceeded.
Volumes can be sorted by any column.
You can search the list of volumes by entering any part of the volume name in the search box.
Projected File Run Out shows the estimated time remaining before the volume runs out of space. Statistics are gathered from the last 3 months and are projected to a linear prediction that calculates the date when Run-Out will be reached.
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Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Specify the number of Volumes displayed.
Thin Storage Pools (by Capacity)
When displayed on a summary dashboard, this widget provides a lists of all thin Storage Pools being monitored in the storage environment.
When displayed on a storage object details page, this widget provides a lists of all thin Storage Pools associated with the object.
A thin, or virtual, storage pool is a representation of a storage area and not tied to any physical storage allocation.
Storage pools can be sorted by any column.
You can search the list of storage pool displayed by entering any part of the pool name in the search box.
For each thin storage pool, the status and name, total size, and provisioned capacity, subscribed capacity and over-subscribed capacity are displayed.
Projected File Run Out shows the estimated time remaining before the volume runs out of space. Statistics are gathered from the last 3 months and are projected to a linear prediction that calculates the date when Run-Out will be reached.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Specify the number of pools displayed.
Throughput Performance
This widget is accessed by clicking the Throughput label on the Performance Summary widget for a storage object. It shows the aggregated total, read, and write throughput performance in Mb per second for the selected time period.
You can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours, or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons, or set the start and end points from the historical data selection to select a custom period, by setting the start and end points from the historical data selection shown below the charts.
Top XX LUNs by Total IOPS
This widget shows a graph comparing the performance over the selected time period for the top performing LUNs attached to the current storage object with the highest total IOPS. By default the top ten performing LUNs are displayed.
You can hide any of the LUNs for clarity.
page 101 You can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours, or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons, or set the start and end points from the historical data selection to select a custom period, by setting the start and end points from the historical data selection shown below the charts.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle of the widget.
l Change the maximum number of LUNs to be displayed.
l Change the default zoom range, amount of historical data to load, and sample interval.
l Add a chart title and subtitle.
Top XX NAS Volumes by Total IOPS
Displays a graph showing the performance over the selected time period for the top performing NAS volumes attached to the current storage object with the highest total IOPS. By default the top ten performing NAS volumes are displayed.
You can hide any of the volumes for clarity.
You can display performance data for the last hour, the last 12 hours, or the last 24 hours using the Zoom buttons, or set the start and end points from the historical data selection to select a custom period, by setting the start and end points from the historical data selection shown below the charts.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle of the widget.
l Change the maximum number of volumes to be displayed.
l Change the default zoom range, amount of historical data to load, and sample interval.
l Add a chart title and subtitle.
Usable Capacity Summary
On the Capacity Dashboard, this widget shows expandable fill charts for all arrays and clusters being monitored by SRM. These indicate how much of the total usable capacity is currently in use, and how much remains. Total usable capacity includes RAID and allocated storage targets. Click on the name to open the Detail page for the array or cluster.
On individual array or cluster pages, this widget shows the total usable capacity, used capacity, remaining capacity and projected run-out for the selected array or cluster. Click the gray triangle in front of the array name to display the storage pools.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle of the widget.
l Change the number of arrays and clusters displayed.
NAS Volume Details
This widget displays information for the current NAS volume.
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Projected File Run Out shows the estimated time remaining before the volume runs out of space. Statistics are gathered from the last 3 months and are projected to a linear prediction that calculates the date when Run-Out will be reached.
Click Manage to access the Edit Properties page, where you can edit the thresholds for this specific NAS Volume.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle of the widget.
Vserver Details
This widget displays information for the selected Vserver.
Click Manage to access the Edit Properties page, where you can edit the thresholds for this Vserver.
Click Edit to change the title and subtitle of the widget.
Vserver Management
This widget provides links for managing the selected Vserver.
Edit Vserver Click to open the Edit properties page for this Vserver, where you can edit the name and the Alerting Thresholds.
Map Server Volumes Click to open the Manual Server Volume Mapping page, enabling you to map volumes from servers where automatic mapping is not currently available.
Click Edit to change the title and subtitle.
Vservers on this Cluster
This widget lists the Vservers that belong to this cluster, showing total capacity, used capacity and used capacity percentage for each.
Click Edit to:
l Change the title and subtitle.
l Change the number of Vservers displayed at a time.
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