VIRTUAL INSTRUMENTS™ PRODUCT FAMILY OPTIMIZES SAN AND VMWARE PERFORMANCE
The Virtual Instruments SAN and virtual infrastructure performance monitoring and troubleshooting solutions are comprised of VirtualWisdom® software and SANInsight™ hardware products. Together, these products provide a new level of troubleshooting and performance optimization for complex, heterogeneous Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks and VMware-enabled IT infrastructures. The ultimate effect of the Virtual Instruments integrated hardware, software and services solution is dramatically reduced capital and operating expenses and a substantially higher performance IT infrastructure.
SAN Performance Optimization
Typical Storage Resource Management (SRM) products cannot provide the sophisticated diagnosis and prevention capabilities necessary to maintain the availability and performance of complex, heterogeneous, fast-changing IT infrastructures. Acute performance problems associated with virtualization or the SAN must be diagnosed swiftly, without vendor finger pointing or time wasted in waiting for the appropriate analysis tools. Simultaneously, chronic and intermittent problems must be proactively detected and resolved before they become acute. In order to prevent such 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 SAN I/O performance is the most critical component of superior application performance and response time, the key is deploying real-time instrumentation technology that directly measures what is going on at a deep level within the transaction workflow, from the virtual machine all the way to the storage array. Once the SAN infrastructure is instrumented and measured, VirtualWisdom makes it easy to analyze the data for optimal performance and utilization of resources. Storage troubleshooting becomes vastly simplified and accelerated, by up to 80% according to our customers.
Virtual 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 like VMware that virtualizes applications and I/O paths, the IT management challenges are exacerbated, further complicating the administrator’s ability to characterize “normal” operation.
VirtualWisdom is a Virtual Infrastructure Optimization solution that adds SAN I/O intelligence to VMware™ deployments, enabling administrators to directly improve application response times and better balance the deployment of virtual machines based on real-time measurements and feedback of I/O performance. 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
For IT managers that want to augment their existing IT staff with specialists, or are constrained by budget cycles, VirtualWisdom is also available as a professional services engagement. Virtual Instruments services include our SOS-4-SANs Emergency Troubleshooting Service, our HealthCheck Scan Services or our Infrastructure Optimization Services.
