Free SolarWinds Storage Monitoring Tool Finds Heavy Hitters

Free Storage Monitoring Tool For VmwareI’ve had my share of using ESXTOP with it’s hard to understand commands so when I saw SolarWinds had a free tool for monitoring storage response time and kernel latency, I thought free storage tools that do something useful – no way!

From the highlights it looks like the tool is useful for something I alway needed to know – figuring out which VM is the heavy-hitter on the data-store so I could do some vMotioning to stop the pain of having too many VM trashing a storage LUN and causing performance issues.

Free Storage Tool Highlights

  • Get at-a-glance insight into host to datastore connections with the worst response times, and the busiest VMs using those connections
  • See a breakdown of the datastore including type and device versus kernel latency

Read more about the SolarWinds Free Storage Monitoring Tool or Download…

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Joe Sanchez

Since 1998, I've been an IT Professional. In this time, I've experienced working as a Help Desk Supervisor, Systems Administrator, VMware Engineer and Manager, Hybrid Cloud & DevOps Engineer and Ops Manager. I'm a published Author of 2 books, Blogger, and IT Infra & Ops VP at Grand Canyon University. I've held certifications as a VCP, CCNA, MSCA, Security+, Network+, A+, SCUM Master, ITIL, and hold an Undergrad degree in Info Technology. I believe creating the best user experience is the top priority. Visit Joe on "LinkedIn". Feel free to leave him your comments below...

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