Virtual
Instruments, the leader in application-centric
infrastructure performance management, today announced a new partnership with Gigamon Inc., the industry leader in visibility solutions to meet a broader set of
customer needs for the Virtual Instruments' network-attached storage (NAS) product portfolio. Virtual Instruments further extended its NAS monitoring portfolio
today by introducing support for the SMB protocol for the VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe. Through
the Gigamon partnership and the enhanced NAS probe capabilities, Virtual
Instruments now offers the industry's most comprehensive set of performance monitoring
solutions for NAS deployments.
NAS
environments present unique challenges to IT organizations, such as hard to
detect rogue clients and noisy neighbors, which cause performance issues that
require analysis capabilities beyond the software-only-based monitoring solutions
offered by many OEMs. Exacerbating these challenges is the fact that NAS
environments are continuously growing and changing, making them increasingly difficult
to manage.
As a
result, many organizations operating NAS environments don't have access to
comprehensive, accurate and vendor-agnostic real-time monitoring at the
protocol level. This lack of comprehensive monitoring means enterprises are unable
to optimize the performance, utilization and health of their NAS deployments,
which leads to wasted OpEx and CapEx spending and an inability to meet
performance-based SLAs. This also leads to significant wasted staff
productivity, as IT support teams struggle to identify root causes of NAS
performance issues.
Through
the new partnership with Gigamon, Virtual Instruments' VirtualWisdom platform
can now ingest IP network data flows from the Gigamon GigaVUE Appliances. As
a result, joint customers are now able to gain access to the comprehensive
monitoring capabilities of the VirtualWisdom solution to overcome the
challenges presented by NAS deployments utilizing IP networks, and Virtual
Instruments is able to significantly expand its potential market opportunity to
include all organizations using NAS, independent of network protocol.
"VirtualWisdom
is clearly recognized as a leader in infrastructure performance management,"
said Phil Griston, senior director of partner marketing and development, at Gigamon.
"Our partnership with Virtual Instruments will give customers effective and
efficient access to a comprehensive, real-time NAS monitoring solution,
supported by an advanced set of analytics that enable both superior reactive
and proactive performance management. The Gigamon Visibility Platform is an
ideal solution to help ensure VirtualWisdom has access to all the relevant
network packet and flow data it needs to perform optimally."
To
further support IT organizations' monitoring needs for their NAS deployments,
Virtual Instruments is adding support for NetFlow IP network monitoring and the
SMB protocol to the VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe, which earned the Gold Award in
the Storage and SAN Management Tools category of TechTarget's Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com
2016 Products of the Year Awards. As a result, Virtual Instruments now supports
the two predominant file sharing network environments, NFS and SMB, which are
the primary protocols upon which large enterprises deploy business-critical
applications on NAS. VirtualWisdom now enables holistic visibility from the VM
to the LUN or file system.
Key
features of the enhanced VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe include:
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The ability
to ingest wire-data NAS metrics through compatibility with Gigamon Visibility
Solutions;
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Added support
for the SMB protocol, which is offered as a simple software upgrade to the
current product at no extra charge;
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Added support
for NetFlow network traffic flow visibility for IP networks;
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The ability
to provide a single performance management solution for both SAN- and NAS-based
infrastructures; and
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A complete
suite of metrics, alarms, reports and analytics now available for SMB storage,
in addition to NFS.
By
providing support for both the SMB and NFS protocols, Virtual Instruments is
able to ensure that its customers can:
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Accelerate
adoption and deployment of NAS implementations;
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Enable
performance-based SLAs;
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Optimize OpEx and
CapEx investments related to NAS deployments; and
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Improve
application availability.
"The partnership
with Gigamon, combined with our new NetFlow and SMB monitoring capabilities
extend our award-winning NAS Performance Probe to an even broader set of
customers," said Tim Van Ash, SVP
of products at Virtual Instruments. "Now,
for the first time, IT organizations across all industries can proactively
ensure the performance and uptime of their complex, multi-vendor NAS
deployments from a single console."
Virtual
Instruments' enhanced VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe will be generally
available in December from the company and its authorized reseller
partners. To learn more about Virtual
Instruments' NAS performance monitoring solutions, please visit: http://www.virtualinstruments.com/solutions/nas-performance-monitoring/.