Interscape SAN/NAS SRM as Part of Performance-as-a-Service

Interscape Technologies, Inc. announces two SAN/NAS/DAS services as part of its ‘expert inclusive’ Perfonics based Performance Analysis As a Service offerings.

The services include Storage Hot-Spot & Bottleneck Analysis and Server Level IO Bottleneck Analysis.

Performance Analysis As a Service is a cloud-based offering focused on providing performance analysis, capacity planning, performance troubleshooting, consolidation modeling, migration planning, capacity planning, trending and forecasting for multi-vendor SAN and NAS storage infrastructures.

"We are very excited to announce these two key storage services. At a cost of less than three people days these ‘expert inclusive’ Interscape offerings provide significant value to end-user enterprise storage groups, storage services providers and resellers," said Alok Jain, founder and CEO of Interscape. "The Hot-Spot & Bottleneck Analysis helps in identifying key issues in a storage infrastructure by providing a proactive solution which reduces reactive-fires and downtime. The Server Level IO Bottleneck is aimed at identifying key storage latency issues at the host levels."

The Hot-Spot & Bottleneck Analysis is a proactive approach to reducing reactive fires and storage infrastructure downtime by pin-pointing unbalanced load due to fan-out or IO load distribution. It can identify hot-spots at disk adapter or physical disk levels, hot-spots at RAID group or storage pool levels and bottlenecks due to 100% utilization at front-end/back-end/disk-levels. Key metrics are identified that are causing the bottleneck using component level heat charts. (e.g IO/s, MBPS, cache-hits, write-pending, read vs. write, sequential vs. random, block sizes and IO queues).

The Server Level IO Bottleneck Analysis provides details around IO latency issues within the server. It can also help baseline IO load across storage devices, I/O queues, R/W IO profiles, block size distribution and other host level metrics.

Performance Analysis As a Service approach is implemented using the Interscape methodology based on a tool called Perfonics. This methodology provides a hands-off model; there is no software, agents or appliance needed to be installed and no additional specialized skill-sets are needed by customer. Customers provide the OEM tools data already collected in their environment or run native storage and server commands/scripts. Once the collected data is uploaded on to secured Interscape cloud, analytic reports are generated and provided via reporting dash board. Customers can take advantage of these ‘expert inclusive’ services to get a deeper understanding of the issues that will help them decide on the corrective actions.

Hot-Spot & Bottleneck Analysis starts at $2,450 for 5TB/5 hosts. Server Level IO Bottleneck Analysis starts at $950 for a single host.