Finisar's proven NetWisdom Enterprise monitoring solution gives SAN
administrators the ability to diagnose, analyze and prevent application
outages and brownouts that increasingly plague today's complex,
multi-vendor data centers. NetWisdom provides both real-time and
trended insight into application latency and bandwidth consumption,
resulting in early detection and advanced notification of link and
device failures, congestion, errors, and other critical SAN
problems.
NetWisdom is a family of products and services in support
monitoring, analysis and diagnosis of Enterprise Fibre Channel Storage
Area Networks (SANs). The family of Enterprise SAN products and
services provide the following key attributes to enterprises:
- DIAGNOSE SAN failures quickly, detect
performance degradation by relating metrics to specific events
- PREVENT SAN problems or their
reoccurrence through expert analysis and trending
- ADVANCE the power of
information by identifying and implementing SAN best practices based on
in-depth traffic information
Finisar
Enterprise SAN products include:
- NetWisdom software to centrally collect SAN metric
information from SAN probes and SAN protocol analyzers, issue alarms
and notifications based on policy, create historical summaries and
provide graphs and tables to analyze and characterize the performance
and functioning of the SAN
- SAN Probes to analyze
SAN traffic at line speeds and collect fabric metrics
- Rovers to extend the reach of SAN probes to all
the links in a SAN.
- TAPs (Traffic Access Point) to gain transparent
access to fibre channel SAN traffic
- SAN Analyzer
to capture traffic and perform analysis to identify faults and
failures.
NetWisdom
Enterprise products can be deployed in many ways, depending on your
business and technical needs. All configurations gather and pass
information to the NetWisdom Portal. NetWisdom Express is a
software-only solution that uses ProbeV software to gather SNMP data
from SAN switches. NetWisdom Enterprise adds significant capability by
using TAPs to gain visibility to SAN traffic and ProbeFCX Probes to
analyze every packet on the network to detect faults and slowdowns.
NetWisdom Enterprise Expert adds the capabilities of the Xgig protocol
analyzer, to meet the most demanding SAN
challenges.
Finisar Enterprise service
offerings include:
- SAN Health Check deploys the Finisar products for your SAN
with quarterly assessments and baselining of your SAN performance and
faults.
- Multi-Site SAN Management enables a
centralized SAN management staff to monitor and analyze performance and
faults across multiple SANs
- External SAN Audit
service provides a vendor-neutral referee or external auditing services
for SAN device comparisons, bake-offs, and build-ups using the same
analysis tools used by SAN device vendors to develop their
products.
Take a look at Finisar's latest webcast:
Prove
your SAN isn't the cause of application
slowdowns.
IDC White Paper: Enabling Efficient SAN Performance Management
NetWisdom Family Brochure
ComputerWeekly Article: Surviving the Storage Test
Xgig Family Brochure
TAPs
High Density TAPs 
