Overview
Storage Monitoring by Sentry Software monitors the health and performance of all SAN components to help administrators diagnose any availability issue. The backup hardware infrastructure, the backup applications, and the backup servers can also be monitored to early detect backup and restore problems.
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Fully monitor major storage devices and backup systems
- Unique and comprehensive monitoring solution for multi-vendor SANs
- Exhaustive monitoring of all layers of a storage device (controllers, storage pools, volumes, etc.)
- Continuous supervision of the overall traffic and activity of all storage systems
- Advanced coverage of major backup solutions' key areas such as jobs, clients, activity logs, tape drives, etc.
Quickly detect storage bottlenecks and performance issues
- Intuitive graphical user interface to easily detect suspicious behaviors
- Rapid fixing of SAN-related issues to better meet customer expectations
- Effortless rationalizing of disk space utilization to avoid catastrophic data loss and corruption
- Relentless hunt for high processor utilization to prevent possible performance degradations
Backup and restore performance monitoring for maximum data protection
- Clear identification of peaks and troughs in the performance of your backup resources
- Early detection of backup and restore errors
- Permanent protection and availability of all data sets
- Valuable assistance in ensuring compliance with backup policies
Reduce complexity and get full visibility of the entire SAN
- Uninterrupted collection of storage performance metrics to keep total control of your SAN environment
- End-to-end operational visibility across your datacenter from a single dashboard
- Powerful reporting capabilities to easily analyze key performance indicators
- Detailed performance statistics to evaluate the impact of the nightly backups
Key Benefits
Increase uptime
Reduce the time required to repair SAN-related issues.
Track issues
Identify storage performance bottlenecks and shorten the time spent to sort them out.
Plan ahead
Manage and plan storage capacity by reporting on disk space availability.
Protect data
Detect backup errors and provide backup statistics to ensure maximum data protection.
Monitored Components
Disk Arrays
- Disks and controllers failures
- Fiber links issues
- Storage allocation
- Data traffic and I/Os
- Power consumption
Fiber Switches
- Fiber links (port, connection, etc.)
- Utilization (traffic, bandwidth)
- Power consumption
Tape Libraries
- Tape drives and robotics failures
- Tape drive utilization
- Power consumption
- Drive cleaning notification
Backups
- Backup and restore activity
- Backup and restore performance
- Backup and restore errors
- Devices and media
- Log and database storage
- Backup servers, services, and daemons
Supported Platforms
Supported Huawei Platforms
At a glance
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Technical Datasheet
Available Products
CA ARCserve Backup KM 1.5.00
Release Date: Nov 01, 2011
Dell Compellent KM 1.4.00
Release Date: Dec 15, 2019
Dell EMC Unity KM 1.0.02
Release Date: Dec 15, 2020
EMC Disk Arrays KM 4.2.00
Release Date: Sep 29, 2017
EMC NetWorker KM 3.2.00
Release Date: Sep 10, 2020
EMC XtremIO KM 1.2.01
Release Date: Dec 18, 2020
Hitachi Disk Arrays KM 1.5.00
Release Date: Sep 29, 2017
HP 3PAR KM 1.2.02
Release Date: Dec 22, 2020
HP Data Protector KM 1.5.01
Release Date: Jan 21, 2021
HP EVA KM 1.3.00
Release Date: Mar 01, 2015
IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 Series KM 1.2.00
Release Date: Mar 01, 2015
IBM DS6000, DS8000 Series KM 1.3.01
Release Date: Nov 29, 2016
IBM Spectrum Protect KM 3.1.00
Release Date: Mar 23, 2018
IBM SVC-Storwize KM 2.2.00
Release Date: Dec 22, 2020
IBM XiV KM 1.1.00
Release Date: May 30, 2018
NetApp Filers KM 3.3.08
Release Date: Apr 22, 2020
Pure Storage KM 1.1.00
Release Date: Mar 27, 2020
Storage Analyzer KM 1.2.00
Release Date: Mar 16, 2021
Storage Intelligence Library 6
Release Date: Mar 16, 2021
Symantec Backup Exec KM 1.6.00
Release Date: Nov 01, 2011
Veritas NetBackup KM 3.3.02
Release Date: Sep 04, 2020
Additional Resources
Storage Concepts Simply Explained
Explore fundamental storage concepts, learn basic technology and terminology, compare DAS, NAS, and SAN environments.