Reduce Downtime; Improve SAN Health
Reduce Downtime; Improve SAN Health
Monitoring SAN health with the complete set of VirtualWisdom roving or dedicated probes is the most effective way to reduce SAN downtime. Your team can prevent SAN issues by proactively monitoring the SAN by setting alarms and running periodic reports, thereby reducing unnecessary storage downtime. Even displaying the VirtualWisdom Dashboard on a NOC screen helps prevent issues. Most SAN problems that impact users are compound issues. VirtualWisdom provides the ability to address potential issues before user or actual problems arise, ensures a more methodical process to SAN monitoring, and eliminates the chance of a SAN emergency.
Many customers first engage VI with our SAN HealthCheck and Scan Service. This health check of key SAN infrastructure components identifies potential problem areas before they impact the business. The service surveys all levels of connectivity to identify Fibre Channel communication issues and likely sources of performance problems and infrastructure failure. By identifying the root cause of performance and infrastructure problems, this SAN health check service improves the infrastructure availability, performance, and SAN resource utilization.
The VirtualWisdom Abort Conditions Trend report identifies whether alerts represent
isolated events or potential problems that need attention to avoid downtime.
Case Study
- Halifax Bank of Scotland | Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) uses Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom monitoring tools to help manage and proactively problem solve to help keep the SAN architecture optimized, and eliminate major problems from affecting banking operations.
Whitepapers
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Ensuring Performance & Availability of VCE Vblock™ Infrastructure Platform Series 700 |
March 2012 | VCE Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms lack comprehensive end-to-end real-time monitoring that ensures the performance and availability of the infrastructure that supports your business-critical applications. VirtualWisdom enables IT managers to realize the full benefits of Vblock Infrastructure Platforms.
Videos
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Solutions for Optimizing Your SAN and Virtual Infrastructure | Learn how Customers use VirtualWisdom to help reduce downtime and simultaneoulsy reduce the actual number of trouble tickets filed.
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Reducing SAN-induce Application Downtime | In this short VirtualWisdom video, we demonstrate an example of how the storage administrator can identify complex SAN issues by monitoring Exchange Completion Time.
