NetApp SANscreen Application Insight

Lower capital costs through improved resource utilization and application performance.

Without being able to see and evaluate performance within your storage environment, you cannot keep it running at peak efficiency. SANscreen® Application Insight captures near real-time performance information from your storage environment and maps it to applications, hosts, and access paths. With Application Insight you can make sure that applications are receiving the right performance from your networked storage resources at the lowest possible cost.

Increase Resource Utilization

In your world, storage utilization isn’t just a job-it’s a dilemma. How can you cost-justify endless capital requests for additional storage resources when your existing capacity may be underutilized? Is it possible to reach and maintain high levels of asset utilization without compromising application performance?

SANscreen® Application Insight provides you with a near real-time, global view into your applications’ storage asset usage measured by traffic to discover underutilized or overutilized storage assets. Application Insight helps IT defer capital expenditures by increasing fabric and multivendor array utilization and enabling or validating a tiering strategy. Application Insight supports server consolidation and assists in port and storage reclamation projects while avoiding performance bottlenecks.

Support server consolidation without performance bottlenecks and assist in port and storage reclamation projects.

Improve Load Balancing

Maximize your ROI in existing storage assets and defer the purchase of new ones by successfully balancing application loads across your SAN with SANscreen® Application Insight. With confidence in the overall load balance, you can safely increase resource utilization without risking application burnouts that jeopardize business continuity.

With SANscreen Application Insight, you can:

• Improve array, switch, and fabric utilization without compromising performance.
• Correlate traffic balance problems to application performance and multipath configuration errors.
• Identify the best array and switch resources to allocate to a new application.
• Optimize storage allocation to accelerate application performance.
• Identify the least or most utilized storage “object.”

Maintain Array Performance

How do you know if your storage arrays are delivering the right level of performance to your business-critical applications? With SANscreen® Application Insight, you can evaluate the performance of your most complex and dynamic arrays-and keep them running at peak efficiency.

Identify array bottlenecks in the context of impacted hosts and applications-and proactively resolve them-by monitoring your array performance with near real-time performance information from the array, mapped to applications and hosts, as well as application-to-disk traffic load information.

You can identify the best array to allocate to a new application using a proactive capacity-planning strategy so that you reduce your operational expenditures, too.