IBM Network Advisor V12.0

Network Advisor V12.0 from IBM Corp. is designed to provide comprehensive management of data center fabrics, including:

Configuration, monitoring, and management of the 16Gb fabric backbones as well as IBM b-type directors, routers, switches, HBAs, and converged network adapters (CNAs)
The ability to help organizations to discover, monitor, and manage converged FCoE network environments
Scaling to manage up to 36 fabrics and 2,560 ports, up to a total of 9,000 ports

It is a software management platform that unifies network management for SAN and converged networks. It is designed to provide users with a consistent user interface, proactive performance analysis, and troubleshooting capabilities across FC and b-type FCoE installations.

Network Advisor V12.0 is designed to offer flexibility in deployment and operational models for traditional SAN and FCoE deployments.

Highlights

Simplified operations with standardized, end-to-end network management of SAN environments
Critical flexibility and seamless scaling from small environments to large-scale and distributed geographic locations
The ability to manage storage and data networks separately or through a single instance of the product, providing flexibility and visibility across environments and simplifying network management
A customizable summary of all discovered b-type devices and third-party devices, including inventory and event summary information used to proactively identify problem areas and help prevent network downtime
Support for FC SAN management with configuration, zoning, and visualization capabilities, including end-to-end HBA, CNA, storage, SAN fabric, and Layer 2 switch topology views
Integration with hypervisors and third-party management solutions

Key prerequisites

Windows Server 2003 Std SP2 (x86 32-bit)
Windows Server 2008 Std (x86 32-bit)
Windows XP Pro SP3 (x86 32-bit)
Windows 7 Professional (x86 32-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Adv (x86 32-bit)
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1 (x86 32-bit)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, (x86 32-bit)
VMware ESXi Server 5.0, KVM, and Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Guest VMs of all above

Planned availability date: May 24, 2013