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 v3.0 Enhancements
New and improved GUI.
Supports FICON enabled SAN devices using IOCP.
Enables mapping of device HBA-Node WWNs through HBA-Host map file.
Provides an option to receive processed reports in HTML and Microsoft Excel format.
Provides an option of preview the raw data before sending to HP for processing.
Provides an option to view SAN Visibility FAQs.
Provides an option to view sample processed report.
Supports MicrosoftWindows Vista Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1 (x86).
Supports Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1 (x86).
What’s new in SAN Visibility v2.0?
Enhancement to Visio Diagrams depicting SAN topology
Improved stencils with custom properties to list detailed information about the SAN Components
Enhanced algorithms for switch/hba placement within the Visio
Diagram makes large configurations depiction simple
HP Tape Libraries discovery
Support for Aliases in HTML reports and the Visio diagrams
HP EVA firmware versions are now displayed for V5.x and higher
Multiple e-mail recipients allowed for the reports
IP address masking support ensures that IP addresses are not transmitted outside the customer's network
Enhanced support matrix
Qlogic switches
Brocade SMI 120.6.0 without Admin Domain configuration
Latest Brocade and Cisco operating systems supported
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.
