SAN Visibility is a complementary software utility for HP customers that helps with SAN Analysis, SAN Diagnostics and SAN Optimization. SAN Visibility saves you considerable time, money, and effort by automating inventory activities and providing a quick and accurate view of your SAN topology. SAN Visibility has an automated report generation feature that produces recommendations, topology diagrams, and informative SAN element reports for switches, host bus adapters and storage array connectivity. SAN Visibility runs on any Windows desktop or laptop which has network connectivity to a switch within your SAN.
Features
SAN Visibility securely automates the inventory process for switches, devices, firmware versions, and fabrics saving you time, effort, and money by doing an analysis of your SAN configuration.
SAN Visibility helps with Firmware alignment. Checks for interoperability to avoid potential downtime.
SAN Visibility improves efficiencies by identifying potential critical fabric characteristics including: - Error condition assessment through SAN Diagnostics and SAN Analysis - Zoning and switch configurations comparisons against best practices by doing an analysis of your SAN
SAN Visibility guides you through a straightforward, intuitive user interface for ease of use.
SAN Visibility helps with analysis of your SAN configuration by generating detailed graphical reports and diagrams.
What’s new in SAN Visibility V5.1
Compatibility check between SAN components:
Analyzes compatibility between the SAN components available in the report. It will check compatibilities between, Host and Switch,
Switch and Storage Systems, Host and Storage System using SDG guidelines.
Check for SAN Design Guide Fabric non-adherences:
Runs through captured SAN information and analyzes it for any potential SAN Design Guide non-adherence and generate recommendations
in the processed report based on the output of the non-adherence check.
IPv6 support for Windows Hosts:
Supports data collection from Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 hosts configured with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses.
Newly supported Storage Devices:
Provides support for 3PAR,P9500,P6300/P6500
Send Logs:
Intuitive and one click function to send log from GUI.
Mail acknowledgement to sender's email id Informs the sender about the processed report sent to the mail id mentioned in SV GUI.
HP Values feedback from its customers. We would like to hear about your experience using the SAN Visibility tool and any feedback you have for improvements or requests for new features you would like added to the tool. Please click here to provide feedback directly to our SAN Visibility engineering team.
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