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

SANlogics enables storage experts to execute real-time analyses and perform on-demand changes in production environments with the stroke of a key and 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 that you maintain best practices while successfully conducting your optimization initiative.

• Centralized Web-based Console  SANlogics provides storage experts, consultants, project managers, and client management teams with a centralized view of their SAN environment, allowing them to 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  The SANlogics GUI uses Web 2.0 technologies to provide features such as mouse roll-over for instant view changes or discrete detail magnification.
• Agentless, Multi-Vendor, Out-of-Band Management Platform  SANlogics is a heterogeneous, cohesive platform that performs tasks usually carried out through use of multiple “point products”—or by 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. In addition to its centralizing capabilities, it can be used via a Web-based ASP model or locally and on-site with an unobtrusive, 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 possibility of human error. It empowers storage experts to verify that all servers are compatible with new storage hardware, to discover and verify dependencies, and to 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. It ingests infrastructure data from Remedy, Peregrine, and Aperture, and creates end-to-end, customizable views based on this data. It also parses data received from various sources and presents it in an easy-to-read, calendar-type view that makes analyses swift and precise. SANlogics is unobtrusive and gathers only configuration data, with no access to clients’ valuable business data.
• Auto-Generated Actionable Output  SANlogics auto-generates actionable output, which accelerates data migration and moves over 5 times more data during each migration when 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 also 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-assess, 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’s instant roll-back functionality ensures successful implementation and appropriate safeguards for the project. Should any unforeseen complications arise, SANlogics storage experts can quickly generate scripts that run reverse commands and allow for a return to pre-migration configurations. SANlogics also automates the post-migration cleanup process by automatically identifying incorrectly configured items and reclaiming unmapped storage capacity.
   

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 applicable solutions based on user-defined criteria.

• SANlogics offers comprehensive and industry-acknowledged “best practice” Work Breakdown Structures (WBS). These WBS have 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 understand their infrastructures at all levels, enabling them to make intelligent purchasing decisions and perform flawless optimization initiatives. SANlogics’s pioneering data collection methods and refresh-views discern what is most relevant in order to convey statistical analyses that are valuable 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.
• Support for Company-wide Standards  SANlogics empowers clients to standardize settings and naming conventions, dictate best practices to remote locations, and drop outdated processes. SANlogics furnishes the tools organizations need to establish enterprise-wide standards.
   

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  Because of its modular design, SANlogics is quickly and fully customizable to a client’s environment and internal best practices. SANlogics can be installed on either an on-site appliance or via a Web based/ASP cloud-based model.
• Easy to Integrate  Unlike most products, SANlogics is unobtrusive, out-of-band, and does not require installation on client servers. Integration into existing storage technologies products is a key attribute of SANlogics’s modular architecture, with process engines and interfaces for migrations: EMC Technologies – various flavors of SRDF, Open Replicator, MirrowView, and SAN Copy. SANlogics ingests data from a multitude of forms. It supports: OEM-specific API, CLI, SNMP, EMC Grab and with additional data mapping services several other standard formats such as SNMP, Excel, ODBC, and XML.
• Easy to Manage  SANlogics provides a centralized framework through which you can manage data collection and correlation, task-specific execution, and dynamic report generation. A centralized framework gives you the ability to efficiently manage the product while ensuring that all users are working with the same data. SANlogics’s exportable reporting capabilities are robust, dynamic, and completely customizable to any organization’s environmental and business-demands.