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VirtualWisdom Dashboard and Views

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VirtualWisdom Dashboard offers a real-time summary display, in a single-view console, that provides an overview of physical and virtual infrastructure performance and faults, based on the metrics available from installed Virtual Instruments hardware (VirtualWisdom SAN Performance Probe) and software probes (SAN Availability Probe, Virtual Server Probe). The dashboard is almost infinitely configurable with what we call “widgets,” or custom representations of the available metrics.

VirtualWisdom Dashboard

The easy-to-use VirtualWisdom Dashboard can be installed in a Network Operations Center so that administrators can quickly determine the health of the virtual infrastructure and SAN at a glance, identify the top ten servers/applications and view their overall performance.

VirtualWisdom Views

VirtualWisdom Views is the GUI that allows users to access the VirtualWisdom performance and utilization metrics and alerts from their workstations in the form of reports, graphs, and tables. This powerful and flexible user interface is designed to support system and storage administrators in real-time root-cause analysis using VirtualWisdom for diagnosis, monitoring, and problem prevention. Views enables the monitoring and analysis of multiple Fibre Channel links simultaneously and allows the user to debug traffic problems at all levels of the protocol. Views software displays over fifteen predefined events, such as SCSI check condition, extended-link services, and link-up. Views allows the administrator to review detailed metrics in either a table or a graph view and to chart historical trends.

The various Views include the:

  • Real-Time Table View - IT manager can quickly determine which devices are active or have become disconnected from the link.

  • Fabric View - allows the user to monitor a group of related statistics per end-device conversation and sort multiple conversations based on any metric (e.g. SCSI exchange completion times).

  • Graph View - provides real-time comparison and combination of metrics, allowing trend-of-activity comparisons for device-level or link-level analysis.

All of the Views are updated either at regular intervals or at user defined time periods of history summarizations. The Record and Playback feature of VirtualWisdom Views allows analysis and comparison of infrastructure performance and health at an alternate time and date.

Product Datasheets

  • VirtualWisdom Overview | VirtualWisdom provides comprehensive instrumentation and I/O measurement capabilities that reduce application response time, increase availability, and improve resource utilization. VirtualWisdom is the only product that can non-intrusively improve the performance of applications and increase the benefits of cloud-driven virtualization in real time by analyzing actual I/O traffic data.

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VirtualWisdom Solution Components

  • VirtualWisdom Virtual Server Probe | Virtual Server Probe collects information specifically about the utilization and performance of virtual machines within the VMware environment via the VMware vCenter server API. It is a virtual software probe that automatically discovers and monitors 120+ CPU, memory, network and disk I/O metrics for VMware ESX virtual machines, physical servers, and clusters. Actual measured data from VirtualWisdom enables IT managers to proactively balance the provisioning of applications on virtual machines for maximum application performance with the confidence that systems will not slow down or fail.

  • VirtualWisdom SAN Availability Probe | As a component of the Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom solutions, the SAN Availability Probe is a non-agent based software probe that utilizes the MIB (management information block) from Fibre Channel switches via SNMP to gather switch performance and link error statistics in a non-intrusive manner. These critical switch statistics are collected by VirtualWisdom’s Server software and presented to the user in an easy to use configurable, graphical user interface.

  • VirtualWisdom SAN Performance Probe | The Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom SAN Performance Probe analyzes every packet on a fibre channel SAN. A SAN Performance Probe can be dedicated to a single SAN link or, using a SANInsight Rover, can rove among many SAN links to provide statistics about storage I/O traffic as it relates to an application server, storage subsystem, remote replication, virtualization or other key SAN device or application.

SANInsight Hardware

  • SANInsight Fibre TAP Patch Panel System | Virtual Instrument’s new SANInsight TAP Patch Panel System provides a range of options for integrating the unique, patented technology into patch panels. By unifying TAP and patch functions into a single layer of physical infrastructure, SANInsight significantly reduces the cost, complexity, and infrastructure impact of TAP deployment. SANInsight facilitates the broad installation of TAPs into both new and existing physical infrastructures, fully addressing the best practices monitorability requirement and enabling complete SAN optimization.

  • SANInsight Enterprise Rover | The Virtual Instruments’ SANInsight Rover provides advanced capabilities to VirtualWisdom® by maximizing the number of SAN links monitored by a SAN Performance Probe. The Rover extends the reach of VirtualWisdom in large enterprise SANs and lowers the cost of SAN monitoring and analysis.

  • SANInsight Protocol Analyzer | The Virtual Instruments SANInsight Protocol Analyzer is a critical tool for IT personnel to troubleshoot component and systems utilizing the Fibre Channel protocol. It captures traffic and graphically reports performance metrics and data errors in real time whenever there is live Fibre Channel traffic over any monitored link. In addition, users can view MB/s, Kframes/sec, utilization, frame errors, and physical layer errors from each direction of the link.

  • SANInsight Mobile Monitoring Option | As a member of the Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom solutions family, the Mobile Monitoring Option (MMO) is designed to provide all of the features and benefits of VirtualWisdom-based instrumentation, monitoring, and measurement in a purpose-built, mobile cabinet, designed to house SANInsightTM Fibre Channel monitoring equipment. Use of the MMO enables IT staff to easily and quickly deploy an infrastructure optimizing VirtualWisdom solution anywhere in the datacenter.