Custom Storage Dashboards... anyone?... Bueller?

Question

Has anyone done anything really clever with dashboards for storage?  We have both STM and SRM and I'd really like to have a one page dashboard that truly depicts the health of the storage environment.  We've got 2 VNX arrays, hundreds of LUNs, 99% virtualized (VMware), but I'm struggling with simplifying this environment into one management-friendly display!  I'm fairly new to both products and would like to see what other experts have done.

cvachovecj · Answer

If you sign up for SRM 6.4 Beta: SRM 6.4 Beta 2 Is Available! , I can give you some updates.

Jiri

michael.d.james · Answer

I'm looking as well. I'd like a dashboard with several historical graphs for say the last 12 hours. I'd like to see a latency graph with multiple storage controllers on it, an IOP graph with multiple controllers on it, maybe a large graph of NFS volumes with latency per volume.

And I'd like the events pane to show me only the storage alerts and not EVERY ALERT FOR ALL 2000 devices.

Help!! Anyone! Tech support sent me to a worthless video.

StorageCzar · Answer

Yes, I am aware of the flexibility of the SRM pages/views.  What I was asking is what are people using as key indicators to their storage array health and how are you presenting it.  There is so much data available that I am struggling trying to display on one screen the health of the arrays.