NetApp SANscreen Service Insight

Gain visibility into storage services delivered by ever-changing global heterogeneous storage infrastructures.

Service Insight, the baseline for NetApp SANscreen product offering, provides visibility into the storage environment, including host-to-storage access paths, storage availability, and change management.

SANscreen® Service Insight operates without agents across multivendor and multiprotocol environments. Its discovery operations are out of band, real time, and nonintrusive. And because Service Insight is an IP-based, agent-less tool, you can avoid the high TCO associated with host-agent maintenance.

NetApp SANscreen® technology is based on the fundamental notion of storage service paths, consisting of a sequence of physically connected components, each of which is configured to allow data to flow along that path. Service Insight continuously discovers the physical and logical configuration of devices, and then builds a service model of how the interaction of these devices delivers a service to an application, resulting in a service path.

Proactively manage and maintain your entire storage infrastructure

Service Insight provides the information you need to manage storage services proactively in order to increase service quality, prevent application failures, and improve recovery time. With proactive management, your IT organization can reduce operating costs in the data center by decreasing the time and effort required for troubleshooting.

Service Insight includes an open enterprise-class data warehouse that enables your IT organization to roll up multisite environments, gain global visibility across distributed infrastructures, and access critical analysis and reporting capabilities. The Service Insight reporting solution empowers your IT organization to make operational, strategic, an tactical storage-related decisions.

Using this information you can:

• Drive better storage management decisions and reduce labor costs associated with compiling resource allocation and application data.
• Improve service quality by proactively discovering the storage services delivered to applications.
• Reduce the risk of an outage in your data center with SANscreen Service Insight’s ability to correlate changes to storage services.