[Review]: Free SAN/Storage Performance Monitoring – STOR2RRD

by Davoud Teimouri · Published 10/11/2017 · Updated 04/04/2019

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Introduction to STOR2RRD

STOR2RRD is a free and useful tools for SAN and storage performance and health monitoring. The tool is developed by XORUX. STOR2RRD supports wide range of SAN switches and SAN storage from most vendors.

The tool offers you end-to-end views of your storage environment including NAS and SAN and can save you significant money in operation monitoring and by predicting utilization bottlenecks in your virtualized environment.
You can also generate policy-based alerts, view overall health status of your systems, provide capacity reports and forecasting data.

Real-time storage and SAN performance visibility in multi-vendor environment
Historical reporting (graph, CSV, PDF, XLS)
Alerting based on performance thresholds
Event monitoring

Supported Storage Devices

NetApp®

NetApp FAS/AFF (Clustered Data OnTAP (CDOT))
NetApp FAS (OnTAP 7-mode)
NetApp E/EF-series

IBM®

IBM System Storage DS8000, DS6800
IBM FlashSystem V9000/V840
IBM FlashSystem A9000
IBM Storwize family (V7000, V5000 and V3700)
IBM Spectrum Virtualize (SVC)
IBM Spectrum Accelerate (XIV)
IBM DS3xxx, 4xxx, 5xxx
IBM DCS3700

Other Vendors

Pure Storage® FlashArray
Huawei® OceanStor V3 and Dorado V3
Lenovo® Storwize
Lenovo S2200/S3200
LSI / Engenio based storages
Dot Hill/Seagate AssuredSAN®
Quantum StorNext®

Hitachi®

Hitachi Data Systems VSP G
Hitachi Data Systems VSP F
Hitachi Data Systems HUS-VM
Hitachi Data Systems VSP
Hitachi Data Systems HUS
Hitachi Data Systems AMS

HPE®

HPE StorageWorks XP7
HPE StoreServ® 3PAR
HPE MSA P2000

Dell® EMC²®

EMC² VMAX
EMC² VPLEX
EMC² Unity
EMC² VNX™
EMC² VNX file
EMC² VNXe
Dell SC Series (Formerly Compellent)
Dell PowerVault® MD3000

Supported SAN devices

Cisco®

Cisco MDS
Cisco Nexus

Brocade® and all their re-brands

Brocade Network Advisor

QLogic®

STOR2RRD Schema

STOR2RRD must have the below access to storage and SAN devices for monitoring health and performance:

Storage access summary

Vendor	Storage type	User role	Interface	Used ports	3rd party SW
IBM	DS8000	monitor	DScli	1750,1751	IBM DScli
	SVC,Storwize Flashsystem	Administrator	SVC CLI	22
	XIV,A9000	readonly	SMI-S	5989
	DS3000,4000,5000	monitor	SMcli	2463	IBM SMcli
EMC²	VMAX	performance monitor	REST API	8443
	VPLEX	vplexuser	SSH REST API	22, 443
	Unity	operator	UEM CLI	443	Unisphere UEM CLI
	VNX block	operator	Navisphere CLI	443,6389	Navisphere CLI
	VNX file	operator	CLI	22
	VNXe	operator	REST API	443	VNXe UEM CLI
NetApp	C-mode	monitor	NetApp CLI NetApp API	22,80,443
	7-mode	monitor	NetApp CLI NetApp API	22,80,443
	E/EF-series	monitor	SMcli	2463	NetApp SMcli
Hitachi	VSP-G,VSP-F VSP,HUS-VM	read only	CCI, Export Tool	TCP: 1099,51100 UDP: 31001,31002	CCI, Export Tool
Hitachi	HUS, AMS	read role	HSNM2 CLI	2000,28355	HSNM2 CLI
HPE	3PAR	browse	3PAR CLI via ssh	22
	3PAR	browse	3PAR CLI	22,5783,5782	3PAR CLI
	XP7	read only	CCI, Export Tool	TCP: 1099,51100 UDP: 31001,31002	CCI, Export Tool
	MSA P2000	monitor	REST API, SMI-S	80,5988 (443,5989)
Lenovo	Storwize	Administrator	Storwize CLI	22
Lenovo	S2200/S3200	monitor	REST API, SMI-S	80,5988 (443,5989)
Dell	MD3000	monitor	SMcli	2463	Dell SMcli
Dell	SC series (Compellent)	Reporter	REST API	3033	Enterprise Manager or DSM Data Collector
Dot Hill	AssuredSAN	monitor	REST API, SMI-S	80,5988 (443,5989)
Quantum	StorNext	monitor	REST API, SMI-S	80,5988 (443,5989)
Huawei	OceanStor	read-only	REST API	8088
Pure Storage	FlashArray	read-only	REST API	443
Brocade	SAN switch	read-only	SNMP v1,2,3	161 UDP
QLogic	SAN switch	read-only	SNMP v1,2,3	161 UDP
Cisco	MDS and Nexus	read-only	SNMP v1,2,3	161 UDP
Brocade	Network Advisor	operator read only	REST API	443