SRM Installation and Upgrade Guide

The SolarWinds Platform Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) offers easy-to-use, real-time storage visibility into your multi-vendor NAS and SAN arrays. Easily set up alerts and reports to monitor performance and capacity trends in your storage environment.

SRM is a SolarWinds Platform product, and it is thus installed using the SolarWinds Installer. To obtain the installer, download SRM, or any other products from the SolarWinds Customer Portal. The installer is included in the download.

SolarWinds strongly recommends that you install the SolarWinds Platform on a server that is neither public, nor internet-facing. To learn about best practices for configuring your SolarWinds Platform installation securely, see Secure Configuration for the SolarWinds Platform.

Install SRM

To install SRM on premises, see the SolarWinds Platform Products Installation and Upgrade Guide. This guide helps you prepare your environment and install SRM using the Installer.

To deploy SRM in the cloud, see the following topics:

• Deploy SolarWinds Platform products to Amazon Web Services
• Deploy SolarWinds Platform products to Microsoft Azure
• Install SolarWinds Platform products using Azure Marketplace

Upgrade SRM

You can upgrade SRM directly from the SolarWinds Platform SolarWinds Platform Web Console (Settings > My Deployment).

Do you need to migrate as part of your upgrade? See the Migration Guide.

To upgrade SRM and other SolarWinds Platform products, see the SolarWinds Platform Products Installation and Upgrade Guide.

To upgrade your scalability engines (Additional Polling Engines, Additional Web Servers, High Availability servers), see Options for upgrading scalability engines.