Helps Maximize ROI and reduceOpEx for Brocade Fibre Channel SAN infrastructures
Enables IT employees to monitor, analyze, and take corrective actions for utility information flowing between servers and storage units
Allows organizations to enhance operational stability and ship predictable utility efficiency
Deploys in simply minutes, with zero downtime for each functions and community infrastructure
Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) right this moment introduced continued innovation in its Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) options with the introduction of the Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform. Representing a brand new product line for the corporate, the Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform permits organizations to obtain larger ROI and diminished OpEx for their mission-critical functions by offering IT employees with the very best ranges of monitoring and analytics between servers and storage. As a consequence, organizations can higher guarantee predictable efficiency and operational stability for their IT infrastructures.
Monitoring and analyzing IT infrastructure efficiency has been a posh, time-consuming activity that requires full end-to-end community information to optimize utility efficiency. Typically, IT employees have had two alternatives-manual strategies that use Excel spreadsheets, or costly automated instruments that add complexity, expose the community to safety dangers, and require utility and community outages in the course of the set up, configuration, and tuning course of. The new Brocade answer represents a a lot easier design and deployment structure that’s superior to these conventional options.
Today, many enterprises depend on guesswork and the accrued expertise of IT employees to preserve utility Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and to establish and resolve points throughout their compute, community, and storage assets. As necessities for one hundred pc community availability proceed to develop, an absence of full visibility into the IT infrastructure may cause extreme and pointless utility efficiency influence and downtime occasions as IT employees wrestle to rapidly establish and resolve bottlenecks, configuration errors, and different circumstances that forestall predictable efficiency for network-connected servers and storage.
Moreover, as a result of current monitoring and analytics options are very costly, IT organizations usually exclude the monitoring of server-attached ports, and even some storage-attached ports due to price range constraints-making it inconceivable to get direct visibility into the habits of all units and stopping true, end-to-end monitoring of visitors flows, This restricted visibility additionally eliminates direct monitoring of cloth latency between the servers and the storage.
The Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform is designed to assist enterprises remodel their environments to mitigate these dangers. It is a devoted, purpose-built storage community equipment for measuring application- and device-level I/O efficiency and visitors behaviors with out compromising safety or inserting extra pressure on compute, storage, or community assets. The equipment analyzes visitors for all network-connected units, together with information flows between each servers and storage units, to present end-to-end visibility into the efficiency of all functions.
With the power to analyze an unprecedented 20,000 information flows and hundreds of thousands of IOPS on a single system, the Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform calculates and analyzes huge quantities of metrics from throughout the community, together with network-connected units, to uncover the often-subtle causes of infrastructure points that diminish efficiency and availability. Performance historical past and developments are additionally tracked, enabling IT employees to proactively monitor and resolve points, usually earlier than they happen.
“To meet the demand of application and data growth, enterprises are deploying virtualized and cloud environments with the tradeoffs of increased costs, complexity, and potential downtime,” stated Jack Rondoni, vice chairman of storage networking at Brocade. “The Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform not only provides end-to-end visibility that was not available previously, but it also improves the ROI for storage infrastructures by providing in-depth, fabric-wide metrics.”
“The ability to most efficiently optimize a SAN environment requires end-to-end visibility into performance statistics associated with all attached network devices,” stated Eric Burgener, analysis director, storage at IDC. “Brocade’s Analytics Monitoring Platform offers that in a centralized management platform that provides a comprehensive view of what is happening across the entire fabric, with the additional benefits of simple, rapid and non-intrusive deployment based on “digital faucet” technology that is pre-integrated into all Brocade Gen 5 hardware. Solutions like this will enable enterprises to get more out of their existing SANs, more reliably meet service level objectives, better maintain operational stability, and more accurately plan expansions.”
A Better Design for IT Infrastructure Monitoring
The Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform design is exclusive in immediately connecting right into a single port on a Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel director or swap to non-invasively accumulate choose data from storage and host ports. The equipment is then ready to calculate detailed I/O efficiency metrics concerning the server and storage information flows utilizing twin, onboard information processors. Not solely is the equipment ready to calculate latency for all linked units inside the SAN material, however it could actually additionally immediately measure material latency, the time it takes for information to traverse the community itself. The design simplicity additionally creates an ROI benefit by permitting a single equipment to massively scale out to accommodate very massive SAN environments with out creating extra prices.
With this modern structure, the Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform may be put in and configured in minutes, with out requiring any community downtime due to its direct utilization of Brocade Gen 5 {hardware} and Brocade Fabric Vision™ know-how.
To assist proactive administration of the community infrastructure, the Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform helps organizations set up baselines, establish developments, and ship details about behavioral threshold settings. When used with Brocade Network Advisor administration software program, the equipment can generate reviews to present each granular and abstract information, in order that storage groups can show compliance with utility efficiency SLAs. Brocade Network Advisor additionally permits organizations to “play back” historic data collected from the analytics platform, a useful device in investigating efficiency points or studying extra about behavioral developments and patterns so as to optimize machine and utility efficiency.
In addition, the Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform enhances the options and performance of the Brocade SAN Content Pack for vRealize to enhance total IT infrastructure visibility inside extremely virtualized VMware environments. The Brocade SAN Content Pack for vRealize Log Insight eliminates “noise’ from hundreds of thousands of occasions and amplifies important SAN alerts to speed up troubleshooting with actionable analytics.
End-to-end skilled providers are included with each Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform for duties reminiscent of preliminary setup and configuration, tuning, reporting, and community optimization. Additional skilled providers might be optionally accessible, together with ongoing tuning and optimization providers, evaluation of the equipment’s configuration information, effective tuning of all settings, and SAN infrastructure evaluation.
Pricing and Availability
The Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform is out there now immediately from Brocade. For pricing data, please contact the corporate at Brocade.com.
Customer Quotes
“Ease of deployment with no requirement to take a network outage to install is what impressed us the most about the Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform. We are working to deploy our first systems later this year and look forward to having a deeper visibility across our entire IT infrastructure to monitor IO-Latency in our storage environment to ensure SLA compliance to our customers.”
Markus Schreiber, Global Head of Storage Commerzbank,
“The Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform will enable our joint customers to achieve greater OpEx savings by eliminating the learning curve and downtime associated with managing fabric-wide data flows and delivering more predictable performance between servers and storage systems. Together, Brocade and Hitachi IT infrastructure solutions and advanced analytics capabilities simplify cloud and big data infrastructures so users can focus their energy on larger business challenges.”
Linda Xu, Vice President, Worldwide Product Marketing: Hitachi Data Systems
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Brocade weblog: Gaining Deeper Insight into Your Applications
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