Thanks! Man, Twitter first, now Thwack? Awesome.
I looked at the sizing guide earlier today. SM runs on a VM that has 8 vCPUs and 16GB of memory. Seems like a lot of system resources for a monitoring application. We're about 60 hosts and ~650 VMs, on vSphere 5.0.
I'll keep working on this tomorrow. It's more than likely a training / education / RTFM issue on the storage side. Thanks again for the help!