Storage Resource Management Tool

Storage resource management refers to the process of maximizing efficiency of storage capacity, allocation, usage, and forecasting at all levels of your storage environment, including raw capacity, RAIDed, LUN, datastore, and file system. 

Storage resource management solutions can help support these processes by centralizing an organization’s storage data in a single, easy-to-access platform to help admins analyze data across devices from multiple vendors. With the right resource storage management tool, you can quickly pull data from multiple storage arrays into a single report.

Storage resource management can rely on different methods and protocols for collecting storage infrastructure data to identify opportunities to improve performance. By populating data-driven dashboards, the comprehensive reports the tool provides help paint a complete picture of storage infrastructure across devices. 

Many organizations rely on storage arrays from multiple vendors. However, managing each of these devices is no easy task, which is why some may end up attempting to manually track storage performance and capacity planning using spreadsheets. 

With a proactive approach to storage resource management, there’s no more sifting through spreadsheets to spot capacity trends or identify root causes of performance problems. The aggregation of data provided by storage resource management software means admins no longer need the endless spreadsheets and can rely on a single, unified platform. 

Cross-stack IT data correlation also plays a critical role in storage resource management, as it allows admins to overlay performance metrics from multiple data sources—network, virtualization, storage, and database—and even drill down into specific areas of interest through drag-and-drop functions. The combination of these features in a robust resource management approach helps simplify storage management, so organizations can more easily keep tabs on their entire storage environment.

Storage resource management is essential for any admin tasked with managing multiple storage devices—especially if the devices are from multiple vendors. Relying on spreadsheets to track storage infrastructure performance and orchestrate capacity planning is not only inefficient, but often ineffective. 

A storage resource management tool can allow admins to quickly view all their infrastructure data via web-based dashboards and create custom reports on the fly to illustrate capacity trends across numerous devices from multiple vendors. Real-time and historical dashboards also help keep performance problems at bay by enabling admins to quickly identify performance patterns and isolate the root causes of any problems that arise.

Storage resource management software provides admins with a unified view into the overall performance of their storage environment, helping minimize downtime and maximize storage infrastructure performance. The most effective storage resource management tools help automate storage capacity planning via web-based dashboards to give admins visibility into growth rates and forecast costs, budgetary requirements, and more. This helps admins predict when their infrastructure will reach capacity, enabling them to avoid outages as a result of full disk errors as well as make more informed budgeting decisions. 

In addition to capacity planning, storage resource management software facilitates performance problem detection, diagnosis, resolution, and even prevention. With dashboards packed with actionable insights into their entire storage environment, admins can quickly spot trends and pinpoint which physical or virtual resource is the source of a performance problem.

Storage Resource Monitor provides comprehensive storage resource management with agentless network attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) array performance monitoring, as well as volumes, RAID groups, storage pools, disks, and more. 

Admins can leverage these dashboards to create comprehensive, well-informed capacity plans and resolve storage outages quickly. This enables admins to spend their time managing their infrastructure instead of sifting through endless spreadsheets. Storage Resource Monitor is also built to easily scale to meet the demands of large environments and can support thousands of physical disks while providing real-time alerts through a single-screen display.