Finisar: SAN Analyzer

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Finisar's Xgig Protocol Analyzer is the industry's premier analyzer used by all SAN fibre-channel device manufacturers to develop and validate their products and by service engineers to resolve SAN storage, switch, and HBA device issues.

SAN vendor field engineers use the Xgig independently for SAN debugging by connecting it to an identified trouble link and generating a trace output which they analyze. Having an Xgig located in your data center reduces the time to resolution by not having to wait for your vendor's field engineer to locate and bring an analyzer to your site when a failure occurs.

The Xgig analyzer can be used in conjunction with NetWisdom to further reduce the time to resolution by automating its captures and analysis to pre-identified trouble links. NetWisdom alarms triggered due to a fault or breach of a pre-defined threshold discovered by a probe on a SAN link, can point an Xgig analyzer to the SAN link for traffic capture. Rovers can extend the reach of a single analyzer to many SAN links for automated capture due to NetWisdom alarms. The Xgig capture is analyzed by NetWisdom using Expert Software and included in reports. Traces are saved and can be sent to vendor support centers for analysis bypassing the need for a field engineer visit.

Xgig Analyzers can be configured with 1, 2, or 8 analyzers in a single rack-mountable chassis. Xgig is also available as a portable chassis as shown above.

Line rate speeds supported include 1Gbs, 2Gbs, 4Gbs, and 8Gbs fibre channel links.

Xgig includes Expert software which supports troubleshooting and protocol-level SAN problem resolution without having expert level SAN protocol knowledge and having to interpret raw traffic traces. Problems uncovered are reported and recommendations are offered on what corrective actions to take to resolve the problem.

Xgig also includes TraceControl software, TraceView software, and PerformanceMonitor software.



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