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Searching for storage monitoring software

Dec 11, 2010 2:32AM PST

hi all,

we're searching for a software to monitor and analyse multi-vendor SAN Storage systems and fabrics like EMC, HP, Brodace, Cisco...

We are currently testing the Storage Profiler from Solarwinds. It looks good on the first view of their online demo.

The information we want to get with this tool are:
where can be performance impacts on all physical & virtual systems connected to our SAN storages.
From the host to the physical disk.
IOPS, throughput, caching,...

Has anyone this software from Solarwinds running and what other possible tools are out there ?

Thanks.

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Why not go for what you really want?
Dec 11, 2010 7:16AM PST

All this testing is fun and keeps folk busy but why not reveal why all this testing is being done?

It seems a shame to not reveal what the goals of the tests are.
Bob

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Our goals for the tool
Dec 11, 2010 10:24PM PST

hi Bob,

testing ist not so funny at all, cause we don't really have the time for it.
But I think this problem has any IT organisation.

All we want to get out of such a tool is MORE information on performance of the whole SAN components in ONE overview.
We have enough of those so called "solutions" of every single system from any manufactor. They are all cooking their own soup.

Hope I was clear enough.

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So it's a soup recipe?
Dec 13, 2010 7:54AM PST

I've yet to find such a tool. There have been test suites for years which I won't link to or note but while you wrote something about "solutions" that appear to not be working for you, are you using the ones from the names of the like of Sun, EMC, and others?

Bob

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Let me take another angle on this.
Dec 13, 2010 7:56AM PST

Not many years ago I was looking at some server (with storage natch) and the complaint was again about performance. They had moved to arrays, more CPUs and yet performance only budged a percent point.

They needed fresh eyes and it didn't take long to find a SQL statement in the code of "select * from".

Case closed as we had a chat with the author of the apps.
Bob