Good monitoring/alerting solution for san storage and vmware

One thing that our current monitoring solution solar winds orion was lacking was vmware and storage reporting. Solarwinds decided to fix this issue by acquiring a company called tek-tools. Right now they are two separate products however in the near future they will be fully integrated into a single pane of glass.

Below are some screenshots of the tek-tools product and they are pretty self explanitory. It can monitor and alert on the following, esx host cpu/memory/disk space etc, esx guest cpu/memory/disk space, datastore useage, datastore forecasting, san lun performance, just to name a few. Another thing that I am very pleased with the graphical information it can show me in my EMC Clarrion SAN (one thing navisphere reporting can't provide you with). This seems to do an excellent job of completing the circle for monitoring of your virtual environment and san storage, and once integrated into orion it will provide full monitoring of everything in your environment!