Reduce Time to Troubleshoot SAN Problems
Reduce SAN & Storage Troubleshooting Time
Monitoring the SAN and virtualized infrastructure with the complete set of VirtualWisdom® probes is the quickest way to troubleshoot problems with application performance, SANs, and any storage components. Knowing immediately whether or not the SAN is to blame for slow application performance or downtime focuses the right team on the task and allows other teams to continue working on other business imperatives.
Often, actual SAN problems are intermittent and difficult to reproduce. What do you do when you’re asked to diagnose a problem that happened two days ago? VirtualWisdom’s granular historical reports enable you to more quickly identify and resolve even the most difficult problems.
VirtualWisdom is the only product that can monitor and send an alert about storage access times, congestion, link errors, CRC errors, and SCSI errors, and generate trend reports that show the behavior of a heterogeneous SAN, over time. This information helps to dramatically expedite storage troubleshooting and allows the SAN Manager to prove whether the problem is in the SAN or elsewhere, such as the application or server. This simple first step speeds SAN troubleshooting by days, weeks, or even months.
After establishing baseline values, the VirtualWisdom Dashboard offers a real-time view of
SAN status, including alerts. You can instantly prove if the problem is in the SAN.
Case Study
-
North America Financial Institution | Established over 100 years ago, this Financial Group serves more than 7 million personal, commercial, corporate and institutional customers in North America and internationally. The customer engaged with Virtual Instruments through a SAN Health Assessment to help find multiple SAN-related problems, remediate them, and just as importantly, provide guidance to help prevent similar problems from recurring in the future.
-
Unilever Boosts Storage Efficiency | computing.co.uk | Managing five petabytes of storage and its fibre channel (FC) network connectivity is no trivial task, as brand giant Unilever found out when it began to look for a management system in its area network (SAN).
Whitepapers
-
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. -
Avoiding SAN Performance Problems | January 2011 | Maintaining peak performance while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. This paper presents a high level summary of the most common SAN problems and explores new ways to dramatically improve application performance and availability.
Analyst Reports
-
Optimizing the Virtual Infrastructure: Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom | Taneja Group White Paper | May 2009 | As virtualization is deployed in production, experienced users are demanding production-quality performance management and optimization solutions to maintain service levels. Taneja Group has identified a new category of powerful solutions now emerging to address these demands, which we have labeled Virtual Infrastructure Optimization, or VIO.
Webinars
-
The Top Ten Secrets to Avoiding SAN Performance Problems — "Why your Storage isn't always to blame" | Maintaining peak performance while simultaneously addressing the root cause of SAN errors is challenging. In this webinar, Archie Hendryx, Senior Solutions Consultant for Virtual Instruments, discusses the most common SAN problems and explores new ways to dramatically improve application performance and availability.
Videos & Podcasts
-
VMware and SAN Administrators Working Together | See how a VMware admin and a SAN admin work together to solve their common infrastructure problems.
-
Reducing Troubleshooting from Days to Minutes | In this 2-minute VirtualWisdom video, we demonstrate an example of how the storage administrator can quickly identify hard-to-find physical-layer issues on the FC SAN using data from our software probe.
-
Proving SAN Innocence | In this short VirtualWisdom video, we demonstrate how the storage administrator can quickly identify whether problems are due to the SAN. By proving SAN innocence, troubleshooting efforts that used to take days or weeks can be reduced to minutes or hours.
