HOW VISUAL STORAGE INTELLIGENCE WORKS

Visual Storage Intelligence replaces your SRM tools and spreadsheets with actionable automation. As a quick-to-deploy Software as-a-Service with out-of-the-box analytics and an agentless set-up, Visual Storage Intelligence provides 24/7 dashboard access and regular email updates – ensuring that your infrastructure data reporting, monitoring, modeling, and analysis will always be at your fingertips.

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Automated Data Collection

Using agentless data collectors, VSI collects data from all storage devices including physical, virtual, and cloud.

Data Transfer to Secure Portal

VSI transfers the data to a secure private cloud, where it is sorted.

Report Generation & Accessibility

Data is made available through the 24/7 client dashboard, downloadable reports, and regular email updates.

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Endless customization, seamless ease-of-use.

Visual Storage Intelligence unifies the data from your storage environment so that you can view, process, and share it any way you want. Using single-pane-of-glass displays, we show more than 12 standard reports, each viewable at targeted and customized levels.

ENTERPRISE REPORTING

In addition to enterprise summaries (which include allocations, alerts, and used / usable space), data is separated according to data center, tier, device type, and classification. Users can also view all volumes, pools, LUNs, and shares – plus free space by device.

CAPACITY PLANNING

Analyze capacity at the device, group, location, and pool levels while running three kinds of forecasting models. Whether you’re using traditional or virtual storage, anticipate when your arrays will reach capacity and create yearly strategies with confidence.

FILE ANALYSIS

Identify each file by its type and date of last access. Filter your files to identify which can safely be archived, sent to the cloud, or otherwise moved or deleted. Use this ability to avoid those mountains of unidentified data that needlessly fill your storage.

HEALTH MONITORING

All “red and yellow” alerts are displayed by device, category, and description. Instead of the endless interruptions caused by real-time alerts, handle all your health warnings once a day before they become urgent.

TRENDING

Capture performance IOPs and latency data, plus capacity trends via provisioning summaries of raw, used, allocated, and free storage. Reports are broken down by data center, device type and classification.

BACKUP

Keep track of your data backups with a quick reporting structure that identifies your backup schedules, date and time of last backups, failed jobs, and total protected data.

LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT

Track the lifespan of each of your devices, including purchase date, end-of-maintenance date, end-of-life date, contract number, and vendor.

CHARGEBACK / SHOWBACK

See the cost associated with each business unit using the cost data you assign to each array where the business unit is storing data, broken down by array.

DEVICE AUDIT

Get granular with your individual devices’ free space, contiguous free space, allocations, pools, drives, IOPs, latency, and used / usable space.

BUSINESS UNIT REPORTS

Multiple business unit reports detail capacity, provisioning, array details, performance, tiering, utilization, and forecasting.

VMWARE

Monitor your virtual environment, from enterprise overviews to details by VM, host, datastore, and cluster. Track which storage each VM is associated with, and do VM capacity planning.

SWITCHES

Easily track the zoning and connections between your hosts, switches, and storage arrays. Reduce redundancies and optimize scalability.

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