Storage Research Paper Fujitsu Softek SANView

SANView provides a graphical view of a company’s Storage Area Network  (SAN) including its storage infrastructure, providing alerts should any  potential problems occur, hopefully before they impact on performance.  As data volumes grow, storage infrastructures are becoming increasingly  complex making it more and more difficult to monitor every aspect of the  network. Butler Group believes that a particular strength of SANView is its  auto discovery feature, enabling it to automatically discover components on  the network. A weakness is the fact that there is no failover functionality built  into the product, although there are various actions that can be taken to  combat this potential roblem, such as having the application simultaneously  report to a second server. SANView is an ideal solution for any organisation  with a large complex SAN, which wants to be able to detect and resolve any  problems before they impact on performance. The best way to evaluate the  product is by trying it on a small part of the infrastructure before  implementing it enterprise-wide.