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PATROL® for Host Bus Adapters
Business Challenge
Host bus adapters provide flexibility and broad interoperability for creating complex, highly scalable storage area networks (SANs). They include a wide variety of connectivity devices from many different vendors. As with any complex technology, it is important to optimize the performance and ensure the health and availability of the device. But this can be difficult to accomplish manually.
Business Need
- Simplify device management and centralize storage management by combining storage data and tasks
- Ensure availability, optimize performance, and automate maintenance of network storage devices
- Monitor, expose, and manage key environmental and performance data points to avoid system downtime
- Isolate and resolve device problems quickly and automatically with minimal manual intervention
- Guarantee application service levels and access by identifying device-related events and alerts
Our Solution
PATROL for Host Bus Adapters leverages information retrieved by the SNIA common application programming interface (API) to help you gather performance and configuration information for the host bus adapters in your environment. Starting from the storage device level, PATROL for Host Bus Adapters gives you a hierarchical view of the host bus adapter devices in your environment.
Key Features & Benefits
- Centralizes and simplifies device management through detailed topology mapping and reporting of discovered devices and their interconnections
- Optimizes storage configurations by proactively tracking and reporting detailed environmental, performance and capacity metrics
- Manages costs associated with storage devices through predefined, vendor-specific and customized historical application-to-storage device reporting
- Expedites problem resolution through a centralized GUI-interface menu, user-defined thresholds, and drill-down capabilities into the device
- Ensures applications are online and performing by automatically detecting and resolving device-related events and alerts
- Maintains rapid data access without interruption by consolidating critical device- and application-specific event, performance, and capacity data
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