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PATROL® for QLogic FC Switches
Business Challenge
QLogic Fibre Channel (FC) switches help create high-performance storage area networks (SANs) and customized network topologies. It is important to optimize switch performance and ensure its availability, but this can be difficult to accomplish manually. As SAN devices are added or the FC switch supports data-intensive applications, it is critical to ensure that the device is healthy and online.
Business Need
- Simplify device managementand centralize storage management bycombining 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 automaticallywith minimal manual intervention
- Guarantee applications' service levels and access by identifying device-related events and alerts
Our Solution
PATROL for QLogic FC Switches uses industry-standard interfaces to help you gather switch performance, configuration, status and event information. With PATROL for QLogic FC Switches, you can view status information about the power supply module, temperature sensors and fans. You can also view port level data such as port type, state, and status, as well as worldwide name, zoning and performance statistics.
Key Features & Benefits
- Centralizes and simplifies device management through detailed topology mapping and reporting of discovered devices and their interconnections
- Optimizes storage configurations byproactivelytracking 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 detectingand 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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