A unified architecture is great, but what about the rest of your environment?
With a unified view of both real-time and future data, you can more easily migrate existing applications.
NetApp's unified storage architecture provides huge benefits in scalability, ease of management, increased efficiencies, and reduced storage costs. But what should you do with the rest of your environment, which might still be based on less flexible storage architectures? Do you even know what you have in your environment?
Many storage operation teams struggle with the problem of basic visibility. Networked storage environments are complex, consisting of physical storage devices, switches, physical hosts, virtual machines, multiple protocols, and multiple sites, typically built from multivendor legacy technology. Storage operation teams lack a single, simple way to answer basic questions about these complex environments, such as:
- What do we have?
- Where is it?
- Who is using what and how much?
- What is the root cause of an application problem?
- What will happen if we change something?
- How can I migrate my applications to a new, better environment quickly, without interrupting service to the business?
NetApp® SANscreen® software provides a unified view across your end-to-end storage environment. Agentless and heterogeneous, SANscreen delivers real-time visibility across all major storage vendors’ platforms. SANscreen automatically correlates the storage infrastructure into a set of “storage services,” detects and analyzes the impact of change, gathers real-time and historical performance data from virtual machine to storage device, allows customized reporting that drives all storage operation decisions, and much more.
SANscreen is currently installed in over 35% of Fortune 50 storage environments, across every device and every port. You can install SANscreen in only a few hours and our average customer recognizes value within the first week. Through a unified, real-time view of their environment, our customers have been able to:
- Improve overall utilization by 10% across the entire storage environment
- Reduce service outages by 50%
- Reduce the time and cost of consolidations and migrations by 50%
- Increase VM consolidation by 2x
- Accelerate application provisioning by 20%
- Automatically generate compliance and audit reports
- Support CMDB and ITIL initiatives
- And much more
SANscreen’s unified view of your storage environment can be a first step to implementing a truly unified architecture. SANscreen will help you understand what you have today - across all storage platforms - and how it is being used. Additionally, SANscreen will help you plan future changes to your environment, allowing you to complete consolidations and migrations faster, more efficiently, and with less risk to your critical business applications.
With your current legacy environment under control, and with a unified view of both real-time and future data, you can more easily migrate existing applications from legacy architectures to a truly unified storage architecture.
