Virtual Instruments and Panduit Provide Holistic Performance Monitoring Capabilities

Virtual Instruments, Inc., provider of infrastructure performance management (IPM) solutions and Panduit Corp., provider of Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI)-based solutions, announced a new solution for EMC VSPEX for End User Computing with XtremIO proven infrastructure.

The technology integration delivers a proven approach to deploying converged infrastructure with embedded performance monitoring across all systems and environments. This solution will provide EMC customers and partners with visibility and definitive insight into their infrastructures’ functions and operations across all virtualised and cloud environments.

The VSPEX for End User Computing with XtremIO architecture is targeted at demanding application I/O requirements for end user computing where transaction level performance is required. Through collaboration with Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom IPM and Panduit tapped fiber cassettes, the new XtremIO offering gives users the ability to collect, monitor, and analyse granular real-time data at the storage protocol layer through to the virtualisation layer. This solution enables customers to optimise VSPEX with XtremIO deployments to ensure increased application performance and availability, and efficient hardware utilisation.

Pete Eggimann, Director, VSPEX ecosystem program, EMC Corp., said: “We continue to deliver on our promise to give customers best-in-class technology that allows for faster deployments, greater efficiency, and lower risk deploying VSPEX architectures. In collaboration with Panduit and Virtual Instruments, VSPEX with XtremIO deployments combine industry-leading compute, network, and virtualisation technologies with real-time performance and diagnostic monitoring capabilities to ensure predictable performance levels of the most demanding and critical end user computing workloads.”

Virtual Instruments and Panduit created the VSPEX with XtremIO integrated offering to help streamline platform configurations for quick and consistent deployments of virtualised desktop infrastructure and applications.

Panduit provides the cabling infrastructure, including QuickNet Tapped Fiber Cassettes, which enables Virtual Instruments to integrate the additional layer of intelligence and infrastructure performance management technology into the VSPEX with XtremIO architecture. Such deployments will enable EMC partners to provide customers with expanded services and support for mission-critical workloads.

“We are excited to deepen our partnership with EMC and Virtual Instruments to provide our ecosystem partners with the ability to proactively deliver physical layer monitoring capabilities to their customers to help optimise infrastructure performance,” said Jeff Paliga, director, data centre solutions, Panduit.

With the explosion of virtualised applications across software defined data centres, enterprises are beginning to proactively instrument performance management capabilities at the time of deployment.  This reference architecture enables customers to deliver embedded performance management capabilities to identify and fix any performance degradation in real-time.

“EMC continues to lead the industry with reference architectures that provide customers with a simple, yet flexible, platform that can easily be configured based on the performance characteristics of the application. The joint EMC with VirtualWisdom architecture reduces the complexity and risk that typically come with virtualizing IO-intensive workloads by building in tools to increase performance and availability,” said Jason Cowie, strategic alliances director, Virtual Instruments.

EMC delivery partner World Wide Technology (WWT) is the first to offer this embedded performance management architecture to VSPEX flash workloads, as well as to give customers a highly available converged platform that provides built-in performance and monitoring diagnostic capabilities.

Scott Miller, director of data centre at WWT, said: “The collaboration between Panduit, EMC, and Virtual Instruments lets us demonstrate high-performance compute and, at the same time, adds systemwide insight for mission-critical workloads within our advanced technology centre. This joint integration is a widely applicable and highly valuable addition to an already best-in-class EMC VSPEX with XtremIO proven infrastructure.”