SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and
affordable IT management software, today unveiled a wave of updates to
the SolarWinds
Orion Platform and its product
portfolio. The enhancements span multiple products, with SolarWinds
debuting the latest versions of Server & Application Monitor (SAM),
Virtualization Manager (VMAN), Storage Resource Monitor (SRM), and introducing
SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor (SCM).
The enhancements enable unified infrastructure management
for technology practitioners, designed to help them quickly identify
performance issues and correlations between all layers of the technology stack.
"Technology professionals managing increasingly complex and
distributed IT environments require monitoring tools that transcend the
challenges introduced by hybrid IT," said Christoph Pfister, executive vice
president of products, SolarWinds. "The portfolio updates are designed to meet
those challenges, providing a unified platform to help IT professionals see the
bigger picture by monitoring, mapping, and proving where there are performance
issues in IT environments."
SolarWinds Delivers Windows System and Application Change
Detection through New Server Configuration Monitor (SCM 1.0)
Built on the Orion Platform, a modular, scalable, unified
monitoring architecture, the first generation of the SolarWinds Server
Configuration Monitor (SCM 1.0) is designed to provide visibility into
configuration changes on Windows servers and applications that have
taken place over time, helping technology professionals correlate configuration
changes to performance. SCM can be used to quickly detect changes on a node,
provide customizable reporting, alerting, and performance correlation.
"SCM picked up on things I didn't
realize had changed," said Jez Marsh, founder, Silverback Systems. "I think many people will be excited
to learn about the capabilities and will find it useful, especially MSPs, who
have commoditized-based spin up and spin down of virtual machines."
SCM's integration with
SolarWinds PerfStack dashboard empowers technology professionals
with a side-by-side view into how configuration settings are affecting overall
performance metrics for applications. Cross-functional collaboration
accelerates problem solving and allows the IT team to visually correlate data
from multiple sources. SCM is also equipped to help technology professionals
verify changes on applications and systems, such as unauthorized modifications
to standard server configurations, for example, a critical capability in
today's ever-changing, complex environments.
Deeper DevOps Environment Monitoring in SolarWinds Server
& Application Monitor 6.7
SAM is designed to provide end-to-end visibility, as well as
server and application performance monitoring, using agent-based and agentless
technologies across multiple data centers, remote locations, and the cloud. The
latest update, version 6.7, now includes container monitoring for Docker,
Kubernetes, and Mesos, and can assist in
troubleshooting container-based applications and workloads, with the goal of
improving monitoring and troubleshooting DevOps environments.
This enhancement is designed to take technology
professionals into the future: in the SolarWinds
IT Trends Report 2018, 44 percent of respondents ranked containers
as the most important technology priority today, and 38 percent of respondents
ranked containers as the most important technology priority three to five years
from now.
Optimize SDS Monitoring with VMware vSAN Support in
Virtualization Manager (VMAN) 8.3
The latest update, version 8.3, offers customers vSAN
storage support. Through the update, users can view and monitor VMware
software defined storage (vSAN) alongside virtualization performance, from the
same console. Customers can also use recommendations to help take the guesswork
out of optimization, as well as model capacity planning scenarios for today and
tomorrow's workloads.
Integration with the Orion Platform can deliver deeper
virtualization insights, broader infrastructure reporting, informative
alerting, cross-stack performance data and metrics,
and improved virtualization management.
New Support for Huawei Devices and Expanded Hardware
Health Support for Dell EMC Isilon, NetApp Arrays with Storage Resource Monitor
(SRM) 6.7
The latest version of SolarWinds SRM (version 6.7) adds
support for Huawei OceanStor and Dorado
devices and now features hardware health support for Dell EMC
Isilon and NetApp, two
industry-leading all-flash array vendors. With this extended support, SRM
6.7 can enable resource monitoring across a wider mix of infrastructures in
multi-vendor environments to meet the needs of a broader set of customers.
SRM's data integration with other SolarWinds products,
including Virtualization Manager (VMAN) and Server & Application Monitor
(SAM) through the Orion Platform, allows for end-to-end relationship mapping
from application and virtualization through storage.
Unified Infrastructure Monitoring through Intelligent
Orion Maps and Orion Platform Integration
Today's IT teams are responsible
for managing increasingly complex and distributed environments, yet many are
still manually mapping their environment and its dependencies-a time-consuming
task that can quickly become outdated. SolarWinds Intelligent Orion
Maps, built on the Orion Platform, is designed to eliminate the need for manual
maps and help users easily create and view custom, logical, contextual maps-in
near real-time. With just a few clicks, technology professionals can use
Intelligent Orion Maps to pull and display application and infrastructure
dependencies when troubleshooting a new issue, as well as view virtualization
platform recommendations in context application groups.
Exploring the adoption of newer
strategies, such as adding analytics capabilities to applications or upgrading
hardware or software, may shift the location of a bottleneck, but may not solve
it altogether. Full visibility across all of these elements is needed to
understand where an issue truly resides and improve uptime and performance.
Built on the Orion Platform, all the unified infrastructure
management enhancements across SAM, VMAN, SRM, and SCM are designed to help
technology professionals monitor their IT systems environment from application to
spindle-to quickly find performance issues and correlations between all the layers. This also includes allowing IT teams
to view and verify that any distributed and load-balanced software is also
sufficiently distributed from a hardware infrastructure perspective. Integration
with features like SolarWinds AppStack, PerfStack, and AppInsights
can help make the process of preventing and troubleshooting incidents easier
than ever before for technology professionals.
SolarWinds will publicly demonstrate its updated
infrastructure management portfolio (for the first time) at VMworld 2018 US in Las Vegas, Nevada,
starting on August 26. The SolarWinds booth number is 2301.
Pricing
and Availability
The updated SolarWinds infrastructure management
portfolio, including Server Configuration Monitor, will be available starting
on August 21, 2018. SolarWinds SCM pricing starts at $1,750; SolarWinds SAM
pricing starts at $2,995; SolarWinds VMAN pricing starts at $2,995; and
SolarWinds SRM pricing starts at $2,995.