Webinars and Podcasts

There is a common myth that Fibre Channel SANs are expensive, difficult to manage and hard to troubleshoot. There is also substantial marketing by certain vendors proclaiming the benefits of alternative solutions. But what if FC SANs were actually less expensive and easier to operate than alternatives? Join Stephen Spellicy, Director of Marketing for Virtensys and Archie Hendryx, Solutions...

SANpulse and Virtual Instruments have teamed together to offer some practical advice on how to reduce storage migration risks and pave the way for moving to the private cloud. In this 45 minute discussion, we will describe specific ways to measure your infrastructure readiness before, during, and after your migration. Join Marie-Pierre Belanger, VP of Product Management at SANpulse and Jim Bahn,...

It’s falsely assumed that VMware is the source of many performance problems since it is relatively new in the datacenter. Others will claim it’s not VMware but the underlying storage. In this webinar Archie Hendryx, Senior Solutions Consultant for Virtual Instruments, addresses key issues and provides insight as to how a comprehensive view, from the VM to the LUN, is imperative for further...

One of the biggest challenges when planning a server/storage consolidation is ensuring the applications and the Server-SAN infrastructure can meet the required performance and availability service level agreements (SLAs). The challenge is that most agencies don

Learn how to identify overprovisioned SAN links and optimize storage tiering

Virtual Instruments recognizes that SAN monitoring and management tools are only part of the story in achieving a fully optimized SAN environment where performance, utilization and availability are maximized. To reach these goals in the most cost-effective way, Virtual Instruments and Enterprise Strategy Group have developed a SAN Maturity Model that gives enterprises a framework to assess...