IntelliMagic Vision for SAN

Score8.5 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is IntelliMagic Vision for SAN?

IntelliMagic Vision is multi-vendor SAN performance, capacity, and configuration analytics solution that uses domain specific artificial intelligence as well as statistical analysis to accurately assess the health of your VMware, Fabric and Storage infrastructure in order to proactively identify potential risks in your infrastructure as well as quickly resolve current risks through topology embedded root cause drill downs.

IntelliMagic Vision's AI-driven analytics continuously analyze the performance and configuration health of your environment and the easy-to-use graphical interface makes it easy to interact and perform root cause analysis when issues are automatically identified such as:

Storage array performance issues such as over-utilized and imbalanced ports and replication delays\
Zoning irregularities such as orphaned ports or hosts with single paths
Orphaned storage and wasted capacity
Capacity trending and forecasting

IntelliMagic Vision is interactive and customizable so you can add and edit your favorite reports, start at a 30,000-foot level view and drill down to the most granular level, safely share reports online via cloud links, compare historical data, export to PDF, PPT, or Splunk, and more.

Free Trial: https://www.intellimagic.com/contact/start-trial/

Categories & Use Cases

Media

NetApp FAS DSS Minicharts - this dashboard shows key performance metrics for NetApp FAS family storage systems. Clicking on each dashboard takes you to the larger report

SVC Tier Dashboard minicharts showing the key performance metrics for the SVC Tier

Disk Storage System Rated Dashboard showing DS8000 and V7000 storage systems with warnings and exceptions

Capacity Dashboard showing capacity growth, DSS Free Capacity, Storage Pool Free Capacity and Tier Free Capacity

Topology Viewer showing an orphaned port drilldown

Vendor-Neutral Storage, Fabric, and VMware analytics

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Jeff Judy View profile

Disaster Recovery Chief Cloud Architect in Information Technology at Recovery Point Systems (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

The reporting capabilities are some of the best in the industry
The granular metric details that are captured are extremely helpful when reviewing storage performance
The ability to link hosts to volumes and report on specific host performance based on volume performance is very helpful
Storage Area Network switch monitoring is critical to alerts such as buffer credit overflows

Cons

object storage reporting is missing
virtual hypervisor host storage reporting is missing

Most Important Features

reporting
alerting

Return on Investment

the ROI value is in the speed to review issues and generate reports

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used by SAN and storage team. IntelliMagic Vision for SAN gathers performance metrics for both SAN and storage, and this allows reporting and performance monitoring and trending.

Pros

Performance metrics for multiple vendors and equipment models
Stability and reliability of the system
Ease of report creation

Cons

Additional reports needed for IBM SVC replication monitoring
Additional new equipment not yet monitored
Automated report generation and distribution is not easy to implement
Trending and projections into the future are needed

Most Important Features

IBM SVC performance gathering
Brocade SAN performance gathering
Ease and speed of reporting to help diagnose issues

Return on Investment

Eliminated multiple reporting sources and consolidated to one

Other Software Used

Rocket Servergraph

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using IntelliMagic Vision to identify capacity trends, errors in our SAN infrastructure, especially FC SAN switches, anomalies. We like the feature to compare the recent measured values against the same one week or one month before to identify trends and anomalies. With IntelliMagic Vision we will visualize any hidden errors and get them fixed before they may cause any outage.

Pros

Comparison of metrics from today to the day a week before to visualize any trends
drilldown into the end-to-end mapping from the individual host to the Storage pool on the DSS
Easy-of-use changing of reports/thresholds as needed

Cons

the interface could be a bit more modern

Most Important Features

drilldown and visualization of mapping between VM and the LUN on the DSS

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Intellimagic Vision for SAN is an excellent tool for our company as it tracks key IT metrics such as storage pool levels, read/write throughput, I/O Rate, etc., for our various vendor storage systems. Over time we are able to determine usage and growth.

Pros

gathers and provides detailed metrics when experiencing storage related problems
excellent reporting tool for SAN and storage
supports multiple vendors

Cons

I have not come across any

Most Important Features

Supports multiple vendors
Provides historical information
Reporting at the granular level

Return on Investment

Dashboards containing specific system monitoring
Support for multiple vendor storage systems
the system is very reliable and upgrades are a breeze

Alternatives Considered

IBM Storage Insights

Other Software Used

Arcserve Backup, Veeam Backup & Replication, NetApp Active IQ

NetApp ONTAP System Manager on ONTAP Data

Pure1, an option from Pure Storage

IBM Spectrum Control

IntelliMagic Vision for SAN