Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent SAN performance issues.
Ensuring the optimal performance and reliability of your storage area network (SAN) is crucial for the smooth operation of your business's critical applications and services. Paessler PRTG offers a 360-degree view of your SAN infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance while minimizing risks associated with data loss and downtime.
Keep your storage system running at peak efficiency with PRTG's detailed performance tracking. Monitor throughput, IOPS, and network latency across all SAN components.
Quickly identify and troubleshoot bottlenecks or abnormal performance degradation. This proactive approach helps maintain a seamless data flow and optimizes your network's overall performance.
Stay ahead of potential issues with customizable, real-time alerts on the health and status of your SAN infrastructure.
Whether it's hardware failures, capacity thresholds, or unexpected changes in performance, PRTG sends immediate notifications to designated stakeholders, allowing for swift action to prevent downtime and ensure continuous data availability.
Effective storage management is key to a scalable and efficient network. With PRTG SAN monitoring tools, gain in-depth insights into storage utilization and growth trends across disks, arrays, and pools.
These insights enable precise storage capacity planning, helping you make informed decisions about expansions, upgrades, and optimizations to support your organization's data storage needs.
Simplify your SAN monitoring with PRTG's intuitive and customizable dashboards. Gain a centralized view of your storage network's performance, capacity, and health metrics at a glance.
This centralized oversight allows for easy monitoring and management, saving time and reducing complexity in overseeing your SAN environment.
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking your storage area network, including SAN switches and routers, server performance, and more, all from a single pane of glass. Show uptime, bandwidth usage, IOPs, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot all kinds of SAN infrastructure performance issues.
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PRTG comes with more than 250 native sensor types for monitoring your entire on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environment out of the box. Check out some examples below!
The SSH SAN System Health sensor monitors the system health of a storage area network (SAN) via Secure Shell (SSH). It can show the following:
The SSH SAN Physical Disk sensor monitors a physical disk on a storage area network (SAN) via Secure Shell (SSH). It can show the following:
The SSH SAN Logical Disk sensor monitors a logical disk on a storage area network (SAN) via Secure Shell (SSH). It can show the following:
The SSH SAN Enclosure sensor monitors a storage area network (SAN) enclosure via Secure Shell (SSH). It can show the following:
See the PRTG Manual for a list of all available sensor types.
PRTG comes with preconfigured sensor templates for storage monitoring that you can use with the products of a wide variety of manufacturers, including Dell PowerVault, Dell EqualLogic, IBM, HPE, and NetApp. Our manufacturer-independent SAN sensors use SSH to query data. A command line interface must be present in the SAN to be able to monitor your storage area networks with SSH.
The SSH SAN System Health sensor can monitor the following:
The SSH SAN Physical Disk sensor can monitor the following:
The SSH SAN Logical Disk sensor can monitor the following:
The SSH SAN Enclosure sensor can monitor the following:
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent SAN performance issues.
PRTG is set up in a matter of minutes and can be used on a wide variety of mobile devices.
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SAN stands for storage area network. It's a specialized, high-speed network that connects servers to storage devices such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and other storage devices. SANs are typically used to enhance storage devices' accessibility, scalability, and performance. They provide block-level access to storage, allowing multiple servers to access the same storage resources concurrently, which can be crucial in enterprise environments with large-scale storage needs and high availability requirements.
Yes, PRTG provides comprehensive monitoring capabilities for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs, offering deep insights into the performance and health of your storage networks regardless of the underlying technology.
By offering real-time threshold monitoring and alerts for performance bottlenecks, capacity issues, hardware failures, and more, PRTG enables IT teams to address problems promptly, significantly reducing the risk of SAN-related downtime.
Absolutely. PRTG is designed to support SAN monitoring across a variety of vendors, ensuring seamless and unified monitoring capabilities even in heterogeneous storage environments.
Absolutely. PRTG is designed to support SAN monitoring across a variety of vendors, ensuring seamless and unified monitoring capabilities even in heterogeneous storage environments.
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive. On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins. The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.
Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.
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