Virtual Instruments announced a new partnership with Gigamon to meet a broader set of customer needs for the Virtual Instruments' network-attached storage (NAS) product portfolio.
Virtual Instruments further extended its NAS monitoring portfolio by introducing support for the SMB protocol for the VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe.
Through the Gigamon partnership and the enhanced NAS probe capabilities, Virtual Instruments offers a comprehensive set of performance monitoring solutions for NAS deployments.
Through the new partnership with Gigamon, Virtual Instruments' VirtualWisdom platform can now ingest IP network data flows from the Gigamon GigaVUE Appliances. As a result, joint customers are now able to gain access to the comprehensive monitoring capabilities of the VirtualWisdom solution to overcome the challenges presented by NAS deployments utilizing IP networks, and Virtual Instruments is able to significantly expand its potential market opportunity to include all organizations using NAS, independent of network protocol.
To further support IT organizations' monitoring needs for their NAS deployments, Virtual Instruments is adding support for NetFlow IP network monitoring and the SMB protocol to the VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe. As a result, Virtual Instruments now supports the two predominant file sharing network environments, NFS and SMB, which are the primary protocols upon which large enterprises deploy business-critical applications on NAS. VirtualWisdom now enables holistic visibility from the VM to the LUN or file system.
Key features of the enhanced VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe include:
- The ability to ingest wire-data NAS metrics through compatibility with Gigamon Visibility Solutions
- Added support for the SMB protocol, which is offered as a simple software upgrade to the current product at no extra charge
- Added support for NetFlow network traffic flow visibility for IP networks
- The ability to provide a single performance management solution for both SAN- and NAS-based infrastructures
- A complete suite of metrics, alarms, reports and analytics now available for SMB storage, in addition to NFS
By providing support for both the SMB and NFS protocols, Virtual Instruments is able to ensure that its customers can:
- Accelerate adoption and deployment of NAS implementations
- Enable performance-based SLAs
- Optimize OpEx and CapEx investments related to NAS deployments
- Improve application availability
Virtual Instruments' enhanced VirtualWisdom NAS Performance Probe will be generally available in December.
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