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!

Rename Netapp Filer, creates Snapdrive issue

After renaming our Netapp FAS 3020C filer which I use for NAS and ISCSI storage, there was an issue with all hosts that connect to it. All hosts that had snapdrive and snapmanager for SQL suddenly all SQL backups failed and I got RPC errors when trying to open snapdrive from computer manager (this will also apply if using Snapmanager for Exchange). The fix was pretty simple

From DOS
List the current IP and filername that snapdrive is currently using:
"c:\program files\netapp\snapdrive\sdcli.exe" preferredIP list

ADD the new filer name and IP:
"c:\program files\netapp\snapdrive\sdcli.exe" preferredIP set -f TypeNewFilerName -IP TypeIPaddressofFiler

Delete the old Filername:
"c:\program files\netapp\snapdrive\sdcli.exe" preferredIP delete -f oldfilername

Confirm that the correct current IP and filername is now the only thing listed:
"c:\program files\netapp\snapdrive\sdcli.exe" preferredIP list

Stop Snapdrive from DOS
net stop swsvc
Start Snapdrive from DOS
net start swsvc

After the above backups successfully completed and i was able to open snapdrive from computer manager