Emulex Introduces OneCommand Vision 2.0

Proactive I/O Performance and Availability Management Ideal for Cloud and Virtualized Data Centers

Storage Networking World Europe - Emulex Corporation recently announced the availability of OneCommand Vision 2.0, an intelligent application that provides proactive I/O management within data center and cloud environments. OneCommand Vision gives IT administrators the ability to maximize I/O performance, availability, and utilization by monitoring and analyzing end-to-end I/O latency, various protocol events and other critical performance metrics. The new release of OneCommand Vision 2.0 delivers increased scalability, usability improvements, custom alerting, and added operating system (OS) and hypervisor support.

"OneCommand Vision manages and proactively solves the proverbial 'blind spot' in the data center - I/O," said Shaun Walsh, vice president of marketing, Emulex. "By viewing I/O from the application's perspective, OneCommand Vision fills a critical hole in performance and availability management not covered by traditional resource management tools.

"OneCommand Vision is designed for heterogeneous network environments and emerging cloud infrastructures, by simplifying the management of complex I/O environments and enabling visibility into end-to-end I/O performance. Emulex OneCommand Vision's non-intrusive software architecture and broad OS support and interoperability with Emulex and non-Emulex adapters provides immediate I/O performance and availability data for baselining, tracking, alerting and troubleshooting complex performance problems.

Emulex OneCommand Vision 2.0 includes the following features and benefits:

• "Application View" of Performance Management: OneCommand Vision exposes disruptions unseen by solutions that simply monitor downstream storage infrastructure components by providing end-to-end performance management that covers 100% of the I/O Path, identifying, for example, mis-configured multipathing software that results in unused, yet expensive, redundant paths. As the infrastructure complexity increases between applications and storage media, this "Application View" of performance availability becomes critical in verifying proper performance and detecting issues that are impacting business.
• I/O SLA Management: OneCommand Vision establishes real-world performance baseline and availability metrics that ensure the specific needs of each application are met after the storage infrastructure is migrated. This is especially critical when migrating storage to a public or private cloud.
• Intelligent Reports and Alerts: OneCommand Vision includes five feature modules for I/O management, including: I/O Latency (to collect, trend, analyze and present end-to-end latency information specific to each I/O path), I/O Profile (to collect, map and present I/O characteristics specific to each I/O path), I/O Analyzer (to collect and present protocol event information, including SCSI and transport information), Intelligent Alerts (to detect and resolve issues), and I/O Reports (to provide a data center-wide view of pertinent I/O network information). OneCommand Vision's utilization reports identify costly imbalances in I/O across the storage infrastructure. Reclaiming as little as two percent of the storage infrastructure can save over $200,000 per year for a mid-sized SAN deployment.
• Analytics and Correlation Engine (ACE): Leveraging Emulex ACE, users can detect performance issues and relate them back to infrastructure hot spots and protocol errors by combining historical I/O availability and performance data, exposing potential oversubscription in the server, network and storage domains.
• Broad OS Support: Emulex OneCommand Vision supports a variety of additional OSes with the 2.0 release, including Microsoft Windows Hyper-V, Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL), Solaris 10, and VMware ESX v4.1 and 5.0.

Emulex OneCommand Vision also includes I/O Performance and Availability Service (IPAS), which provides users with predictable application performance and availability, higher infrastructure utilization and lower operational costs. IPAS Baseline or IPAS Advanced professional services provide customers with an assessment of their existing production environment, and advice on how to resolve any existing I/O performance issues at the outset.

A base-level OneCommand Vision installation starts as low as $28,000 (MSRP), with several economical scale-out options including site and enterprise licenses. Emulex OneCommand Vision 2.0 is being demonstrated at Storage Networking World Europe in Frankfurt, Germany, this week in booth #10. For more information, please visit the OneCommand Vision landing page or join us for the "Emulex OneCommand Vision: Take Control of Your I/O Performance" webcast on November 17.

Supporting Quotes:
"Monitoring data center performance is mission-critical for enterprises now more than ever, in the advent of emerging public and private cloud deployments," said Cindy Borovick, Program Vice President, Enterprise and Datacenter Networks, IDC. "OneCommand Vision answers an unaddressed problem for IT administrators by monitoring I/O as it traverses the data center, not just at the application level, which is a compelling differentiator for Emulex."

"One trend that we are seeing is that storage, the entire storage infrastructure, is being delivered as a service," said Frieder Zimmermann, Manager, Technology & Partner Business, matrix technology AG. "OneCommand Vision's application-centric view of performance provides the only solution to effectively manage SLAs associated within this storage 'cloud.'"

"OneCommand Vision provides a unique performance management solution. As virtual server environments become more of the standard, there is still the challenge of I/O performance as these architectures are very demanding on storage," said John Vitiello, vice president of technical services, Worldcom Exchange Inc. "Vision's cross-platform capabilities allow one solution to be deployed across all major OS and hypervisor environments, centralizing I/O performance management. It takes the guess work out of Fibre Channel performance management."

"I have seen OneCommand Vision in action, solving problems other tools cannot," said Stu Turner, Presidio Networked Solutions. "OneCommand Vision's server-centric approach to performance and correlation engine accurately baseline performance while quickly identifying problem areas that may impact business lines."

About Emulex
Emulex, the leader in converged networking solutions, provides enterprise-class connectivity for servers, networks and storage devices within the data center. The Company's product portfolio of Fibre Channel host bus adapters, network interface cards, converged network adapters, controllers, embedded bridges and switches, and connectivity management software are proven, tested and trusted by the world's largest and most demanding IT environments. Emulex solutions are used and offered by the industry's leading server and storage OEMs including, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, Huawei, IBM, NEC, NetApp and Oracle. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. For more information, visit www.Emulex.com.

SOURCE: Emulex Corporation