PRODUCTS
NetWisdom™ provides comprehensive, real-time instrumentation and measurement capabilities that allow IT managers to optimize SAN performance, utilization, and availability of their SAN. VirtualWisdom is a Virtual Infrastructure Optimization solution that adds SAN I/O intelligence to VMware™ deployments, enabling administrators to better balance deployment of virtual machines based on real-time measurements and feedback of I/O performance. Deploying VirtualWisdom or NetWisdom results in superior application performance, significantly faster trouble ticket resolution, increased server consolidation ratios, and higher overall SAN utilization. The ultimate effect of the Virtual Instruments integrated hardware, software and services solution is dramatically reduced capital and operating expenses and higher data center efficiency…your SAN Best Practice.
Performance Optimization
Typical Storage Resource Management (SRM) products cannot provide the sophisticated diagnosis and prevention capabilities necessary to maintain complex, heterogeneous, fast-changing IT infrastructures. Acute SAN performance problems or VMware performance problems must be diagnosed swiftly, without vendor finger pointing or time wasted in waiting for the appropriate analysis tools. Simultaneously, chronic problems must be proactively detected and resolved before they become acute. In order to prevent chronic problems, your ongoing IT practices must include baseline comparisons of I/O performance, bandwidth utilization, and average I/O completion time to verify that changes in your hardware, firmware, or configuration do not adversely impact your business-critical applications or SAN services.
Because fast I/O performance is the most critical component of superior application performance and response time, the key is deploying instrumentation technology that directly measures what is going on at a deep level with the transaction workflow, from the virtual machine all the way to the storage array. Once the SAN infrastructure is instrumented and measured, Virtual Instruments makes it easy to analyze the data for optimal performance and utilization of resources. Storage troubleshooting becomes vastly simplified.
Infrastructure Optimization
IT organizations that are deploying virtualization technology in conjunction with a complex, multivendor SAN infrastructure require a sophisticated set of capabilities for the real-time identification, diagnosis and prevention of downtime or application slowdowns. Complexity is driven by the heterogeneity of your storage subsystems, host bus adapters (HBAs), operating systems, fabric switches, Wide Area Networks (WANs), multi-site replication, storage and tape virtualization, and the continued growth of your data and applications. When combined with a virtual machine architecture that virtualizes applications and I/O paths, the IT management challenges are exacerbated, further complicating the administrator’s ability to characterize “normal” operation.
With VirtualWisdom, you can dramatically minimize the time to VMware and SAN problem resolution, eliminate SAN over-provisioning or SAN under-provisioning, increase VMware server consolidation ratios, lower expenditures on power, cooling and floor space, identify opportunities to use Tier 2 storage instead of expensive Tier 1 storage, enable re-balancing, and avoid buying unnecessary additional storage or switch ports.
SERVICES SOLUTIONS
Many customers wish to augment their existing IT staff with specialists, or are constrained by budget cycles. NetWisdom is also available as a professional services engagement through our SAN HealthCheck and Scan Service, and VirtualWisdom is available through our Virtual Infrastructure HealthCheck and Scan Service.
