Determining Resource and Storage Utilization in a Modern Networked Environment.
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Easy to deploy
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Never miss critical performance data
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Scales effortlessly to hundreds or even thousands of machines
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Leverage your existing frameworks for management reporting
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Analyze and gather the information to optimize resource utilization
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Customizable to meet your monitoring, trending and analysis needs
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Take Charge of your Windows and Storage Environments
Overview:
SANmaestro software is an analysis and decision support tool that helps you improve capacity planning, resource utilization and quality of service.
SANmaestro monitors, reports, charts, gathers and analyzes system performance and resource utilization information from multiple networked systems.
Obtaining and working with the information necessary to manage assets and resources within a large storage or Windows network can be a formidable task. The network's scale presents challenges to gathering the data needed for current and future utilization and performance profiling, analyzing the data gathered, and communicating that analysis to those who control IT purchases and budgets. For example, many companies have begun "billing" or "charge-backs" of IT costs to company profit centers or affiliates based on usage or quality of service, but in a large IT environment allocating and auditing usage and service can be a monumental task.
SANmaestro software solves these problems by gathering and helping you analyze and report the critical system performance and utilization data you want and need. SANmaestro software is a powerful and "spreadsheet simple" approach to monitor, analyze and report storage and Windows metrics and information across large or complex environments. It is quick to set up, easy to use, and generates useful reports and charts. Most importantly, it is flexible and can be customized to meet your reporting and analysis needs using a simple spreadsheet tool instead of complex programming environments.
What Does it Do?
With SANmaestro software you can:
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Collect system performance and utilization metrics across many systems in real-time
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Analyze historical data accumulated over long periods (up to 2 years)
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Chart, tabulate and analyze selected metrics with spreadsheet simplicity and flexibility to assist in visualizing trends, hot spots and system historical behaviour
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Perform "what if" analysis
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Develop customized reports and charts with SANmaestro's extensible development toolkit - A simple-to-use dynamic spreadsheet with an integrated graphics editor.
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Export historical data to 3rd party tools and network management frameworks for further analysis, processing or audit reports.
- Uses Comma Separated Values (CSV) format suitable for Excel, SAS, Oracle and other popular data manipulation packages
- Output may be directed to custom billing and/or charge-back applications
Is SANmaestro Right for You?
Every business with large storage or Windows network should monitor and analyze the utilization and performance of its networked IT assets. Whether they desire to analyze the utilization of their SANsymphony-managed storage resources over extended periods of time or want to analyze metrics from a multitude of Windows systems, SANmaestro is the right solution for businesses that:
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require an audit trail of historical I/O behavior and capacity consumption
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want to generate input to billing and charge-back applications based on resources or storage utilization
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need to profile performance trends and identify hotspots
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want to use prior trends to predict future needs (capacity planning)
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needs to cost justify resource utilization for budgeting and ROI analysis
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wants the data and inputs to be able to perform system health checks
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wish to better understand loads and system characteristics during periods of peak activity
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