NetWisdom SAN Monitoring and Analysis

Finisar provides a family of products and services in support Enterprise production and pre-production Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs). These products and services enhance the value of the business by keeping SANs running correctly and smoothly. Finisar's 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 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

TAPs (Traffic Access Point) to gain transparent access to fibre channel SAN traffic

SAN Probes to process SAN traffic and fabric information at line speeds

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 (top). NetWisdom Express is a software-only solution that uses ProbeV software to gather SNMP data from SAN subsystems. NetWisdom Enterprise adds significant capability by using TAPs gain visibility to SAN traffic. NetWisdom Enterprise Expert adds the capabilities of the Xgig network 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.

NetWisdom Enterprise Solutions
NetWisdom Express
NetWisdom Enterprise
NetWisdom Enterprise Expert
Probes
ProbeV
ProbeFC
ProbeFCX

TAPs
8-port Roving TAPs
High Density TAPs

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SAN Products

NetWisdom
SAN Analyzer
TAPs

SAN Monitoring & Analysis

NetWisdom Express
NetWisdom Enterprise
NetWisdom Enterprise Expert
ProbeV
ProbeFC
ProbeFCX