Explore Real-World Cases with the Dell SRM Interactive Demo
Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:04:10 -0000
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Summary
At Dell Technologies, we are proud to announce a new interactive demo for Storage Resource Manager (SRM), located here:
This interactive demo is based on the SRM release 4.7.0.0, which introduces several new features, enhancements, and platform supports.
Interactive Demo Info
The landing page of the interactive demo provides a summary of the use cases and features covered. This demo has the same look and feel as the actual HTML-based SRM user interface, where you can scroll up and down the page and click on each page object.
Dell SRM provides insight into data center operations from application to storage. Through automated discovery and reporting, Dell SRM breaks down the silos. Its simple use-case driven user interface simplifies tasks such as:
- Capacity Planning
- Performance Analysis
- Configuration Compliance
- Chargeback
- Workload Analysis
There are eight independent interactive demo modules available, each of which covers a main SRM use case or feature:
- Enterprise Capacity Dashboard
- Capacity Planning What-If Scenario
- Performance Analysis - Host to LUN Troubleshooting
- Topology and End-To-End Relationships
- Chargeback Report by VirtualMachine
- Configuration Compliance Policies
- Configuration Compliance What-if Analysis
- Custom Report Wizard
Sample Screens from Interactive Demos
Here is a peek inside each of the eight demo modules:
1. Enterprise Capacity Dashboard
2. Capacity Planning What-If Scenario
3. Performance Analysis - Host to LUN Troubleshooting
4. Topology and End-To-End Relationships
5. Chargeback Report by VirtualMachine
6. Configuration Compliance Policies
7. Configuration Compliance What-if Analysis
8. Custom Report Wizard
Supported Platforms
The data that is available in this comprehensive eight module demo is from the following supported vendors and technologies:
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Enjoy this demo and let us know how you like it!
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Author: Dejan Stojanovic
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