SANlogics Key Features

SANpulse simplifies and accelerates SAN optimization and migration by combining automated data analyses and business-process aware functionality with SANlogics’ pioneering, highly-reliable platform. SANlogics is a proven technology that top-flight organizations around the world have relied on to deliver the SAN performance they demand.

Centralized Management

Centralized Management

SANlogics lets storage experts execute real-time analyses and perform on-demand changes in production environments with the stroke of a key, with minimal disruption to tasked-storage teams. An intuitive graphical interface provides in-depth views of heterogeneous SAN environments via a unified, centralized console. SANlogics delivers enterprise-wide control via a single Web-based console to ensure best practices are maintained and initiatives are aligned seamlessly.

	Centralized Web-based Console SANlogics provides storage experts, consultants, project managers and client management teams with a centralized view of the environment, letting them manage multiple projects simultaneously and generate actionable output on demand. Administrator-defined, role-based, dynamic views enable user-relevant access, from read-only reporting to task-based execution.
	Highly Intuitive, Web 2.0 Enabled GUI SANlogics GUI leverages Web 2.0 technologies to provide features such as mouse roll-over for instant view changes, or discrete detail magnification. SANlogics’ user-friendly interface accelerates knowledge transfer and dissemination.
	Agent-Less, Multi-Vendor, Out-of-Band Management Platform SANlogics is a heterogeneous, cohesive platform that performs tasks usually carried out through utilization of multiple ‘point products’ or via simple ‘brute force’. With its single platform, agent-less deployment scheme and open database design, SANlogics centralizes the various functions of multi-vendor storage management systems and can be utilized via a Web-based ASP model or locally, on-site using a non-intrusive out-of-band appliance.

Automation

End-to-End Automation, from Discovery through Execution

SANlogics saves time, reduces the risk of cost overruns and application outages, and dramatically minimizes the risk of human error. It empowers storage experts to: Ensure that all servers are compatible with new storage hardware; Discover and verify dependencies, and; Produce automated outputs that can be quickly and easily executed.

	Auto-Discovery SANlogics collects data in multiple ways, both online and offline, from any combination of multi-vendor environments. SANlogics ingests infrastructure data from Remedy, Peregrine, and Aperture, and can create end-to-end, customizable views based on this data. SANlogics ability to parse data received from various sources and present it in an easy-to-read calendar-type view makes analyses swift and precise. SANlogics is non-intrusive, and gathers only configuration data, with no access to client’s valuable business data.
	Auto-Generate Actionable Output SANlogics is unique in its ability to auto-generate actionable output that can be easily extracted and executed upon, which allows for rapid migration of data - over 5x more data can be easily moved during each migration window (compared to traditional methods).
	Instant Reactive Actions SANlogics lets you respond quickly by instantly applying changes based on business requirements, identifying potential road blocks, and discerning an immediate response based on holistic data analyses. SANlogics has built-in correlation and audit functionality, empowering users with a unique Business Intelligence system that recognizes real-time changes within the environment, provides only the applicable solution options, and generates the work files required to implement the alternatives - all from within the same console or via the proprietary SANlogics Execution Applet.
	SANlogics Execution Applet A separate executable application, SANlogics Execution Applet lets storage engineers access, re-asses, and re-generate output minutes before execution. The Execution Applet does not require access to SANlogics and can be opened and executed from any location, delivering the elevated flexibility required to adapt to ever-changing requirements.
	Roll-Back Functionality and Cleanup SANlogics’ instant roll-back functionality ensures successful implementation and appropriate safeguards for the project. SANlogics lets storage experts quickly generate scripts to run reverse commands for a return to pre-existing configurations, should any unforeseen complications arise. SANlogics also automates the post-migration cleanup process by automatically identifying incorrectly configured items and reclaiming unmapped storage capacity.

Business-Aware Software

Business-Aware Software Platform

At the core of SANlogics is the automated Business Intelligence engine, which correlates and evaluates all relevant data, and provides all available and applicable solutions based on user-defined criteria.

	Customizable Work Breakdown Structures SANlogics offers comprehensive and industry-acknowledged “best practice” Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), concurrent with the ability to ingest client-specific project tasks and specified sequence-of-events for optimization of SAN environments. Out-of-the box WBS have been assembled by SANpulse experts based on years of hands-on experience - but SANlogics’ singular ability to flexibly adapt to each client’s unique business processes is what makes it a “best-in-class” solution.
	Decision Support System SANlogics provides a centralized utility for organizations to intimately understand their infrastructure, empowering them to make intelligent purchasing decisions and perform flawless optimization initiatives. SANlogics’ pioneering data collection methods and refresh-views discern what is most relevant in order to convey statistical analyses that are most value to Business Managers and SAN Administrators. It provides a powerful decision support mechanism to facilitate optimization of current storage infrastructure and effectively implement new arrays, resulting in tangible soft-cost savings derived from such elements as reduced power consumption and optimal floor space utilization.
	Supports Company-wide Standards SANlogics empowers clients to standardize settings and naming conventions, dictate best practices to remote locations, and drop outdated processes. SANlogics provides the tools organizations need to establish enterprise-wide standards.

Implementation

Implementation

SANlogics is a stand-alone product, and once deployed is fully customizable to meet an organization’s particular needs and demands. SANlogics is unique in its interoperability, delivering a broad range of interfacing capabilities with existing storage and data-mover products.

	Flexible Deployment Options SANlogics modular design makes it a truly unique solution. It is customizable to a client’s environment and internal best practices quickly and fully. SANlogics can be installed on either an onsite appliance or via a Web based/ASP model. Read more about SANlogics’ Architecture.
	Easy to Integrate Unlike most products, SANlogics is non-intrusive, out-of-band, and does not require installation on production servers. Integration to existing products is a key attribute of SANlogics’ modular architecture, with pre-built interfaces for Symantec’s VCC, EMC’s ECC, ADM, SRDF; MirrorView; Open Replicator; RecoverPoint, SANcopy; Vicom Piper; Brocade DMM for migrations; virtualization products such as VMware; and Remedy & Atrium for change control. SANlogics also has the ability to ingest data from a multitude of forms, including OEM-specific API & CLI; SNMP; Excel; ODBC; EMC Grab; and XML.
	Easy to Manage SANlogics provides a centralized framework through which to manage collection, correlation, task-specific execution, and dynamic report generation. This enables the ability to efficiently manage the product while ensuring that all users are working with the same data. SANlogics’ exportable reporting capabilities are robust, dynamic, and completely customizable to any organization’s environmental and business-demands.

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