Improve management efficiency and gain control of your SAN with APTARE StorageConsole Fabric Manager. It lets you easily visualize your SAN topology, proactively manage & monitor changes to the SAN fabric, and optimize SAN performance by identifying performance bottlenecks that can affect mission-critical applications.

Get A Clear View Of Your SAN

The SAN infrastructure in most enterprises can become extremely complex and unwieldy as servers, Fibre Channel switches, and storage systems are added and subtracted from the SAN. The result is that it becomes nearly impossible for storage administrators to know for certainty the current configuration of their SAN. Storage administrators can now view with certainty the entire SAN topology by using APTARE® StorageConsole® Fabric Manager.

• Visually see all the components comprising the SAN – servers, switches, and storage systems
• Drill down to see exact switch configurations and connectivity
• Trace paths through the SAN to determine current routing

Understand Your SAN Configuration

One of the key problems in a SAN is to understand the end-to-end paths from a given server to its SAN attached storage. When there were a few large servers in the environment the problem was simple. However, with the advent rack mount and blade servers, each with the ability to run multiple virtual machines, the problem becomes exponential in size. With a built-in “host to storage interactive dashboard” of APTARE StorageConsole Fabric Manager, users can quickly and easily see the path from a physical or virtual server, through the SAN, to its SAN storage.

• Graphical rendition of SAN from the physical server or virtual server to the storage system
• Complete path and port information through the SAN
• Current zoning information for the server

Improve SAN Change Management

A critical requirement in monitoring a SAN is the ability to understand changes to the SAN, and be notified when these changes take place. Provided within APTARE StorageConsole Fabric Manager is a complete SAN change management feature, along with notification on these changes.

• User registration for SAN change notifications
• Ability to list SAN fabric changes for specific time periods
• Dependency analysis to show how changes effect the SAN

Optimize SAN Performance

Today, application performance can be critical to conducting business in the age of the Internet. Foremost in dictating application performance is the underlying I/O performance of the SAN storage connected to the application. APTARE StorageConsole Fabric Manager captures and reports on key performance metrics for the SAN.

• View I/O response times, queue depths, throughput, and read/write statistics
• Determine if errors are creating performance issues
• Load balance the SAN ports on storage arrays to ensure consistent performance
• Monitor and alert on ISL performance.

Account For SAN Resources

Whether an IT organization is run truly as a profit center or as a cost/investment center, it is important to understand how the IT organization’s SAN resources are being used. APTARE StorageConsole Fabric Manager can be easily used to account for SAN resources.

• Easy flexible user configuration and accounting setup
• SAN resource accounting on total port usage
• SAN resource accounting on data volume.