Virtual Instruments Unveiling “First” 16Gb-Capable Wire Data FC Performance Probe for SAN

Virtual Instruments, Inc., provider of infrastructure performance management (IPM) solutions to enterprises with mission-critical application infrastructures, announced the release of its 16G-capable FC performance probe, providing IT teams with the critical information they need for analysing infrastructure response time.

The new probe is the industry’s first and only real-time full 16G line-rate monitoring solution for SANs, analysing and reporting on hundreds of metrics to provide comprehensive, accurate and vendor agnostic monitoring at the protocol level.

Combined with the VirtualWisdom4 IPM platform, the probe delivers:
– Performance-based SLA management to meet the emerging requirement for increased operational transparency in the private cloud;
– Detailed application I/O profiling to enable the increasing enterprise shift to workload-centric IT strategies; and
– Proactive problem identification to guarantee end-to-end infrastructure performance and availability.

“With the introduction of the ProbeFC-16G-24, Virtual Instruments is reinforcing its commitment to supporting the latest in SAN technology,” said Barry Cooks, VP of engineering, Virtual Instruments. “We developed this solution to keep pace with our customers’ and the market’s requirements for technology investment protection and ongoing support of 16G FC as global enterprises begin to upgrade their environments to the latest technology available.“

Virtual Instruments’ hardware-based performance probe family provides a depth and granularity of data. The VirtualWisdom4 Applied Analytics module incorporates a built-in understanding of the relationships between infrastructure entities and metrics to generate insights and answers from IT data. This module correlates and examines the hardware-based probe information alongside the data coming from all other VirtualWisdom4 software probes (VM, host, switch and sStorage) to offer enterprise IT teams the insights they need to ensure applications and infrastructure perform better together.

The VirtualWisdom4 IPM platform gives IT performance teams the visibility into the system wide functionality they need to transform their IT data into the answers they need to guarantee the performance and availability at the lowest cost and risk.

The Performance ProbeFC-16G-24 will be available in February 2015.