Xangati Extends Storage Performance Analytics to VMware Virtual SAN

Xangati, Inc. announced its intent to extend cross-silo intelligence and storage performance analytics for Vmware, Inc. Virtual SAN technology.

Xangati StormTracker technology

The company’s solutions collects information from all servers, switch and storage systems that comprise the virtualized data center and gathers information from vSphere, VMware vCenter Server and VMware Horizon to coalesce a holistic, end-to-end health picture of end-user quality of experience impacts to virtual desktop or virtual server infrastructures, augmenting vCenter Server and VMware vRealize operations.

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The company has implemented ddirect integration into NetApp, Inc.‘s storage systems that shows the IO/s throughput and latency that NetApp is delivering to the hypervisor. Additionally, data on NFS or CIFS shares, iSCSI or FC LUNs and overall network bit rates are collated by Xangati. Storage-related storms typically occur when applications unknowingly and excessively share a storage controller, a volume or even a LUN, which cause storage performance to deteriorate, often dramatically and spontaneously, especially among converged infrastructures.

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Relative to Virtual SAN support, the company solutions will collect information from the hypervisor about the Virtual SAN-based datastore and its constituents, including latency, throughput and IO/s, as well as capacity utilization, resource efficiency and availability information. Virtual infrastructure performance data are collected with highly granular, second-by-second precision, then correlated by company’s advanced analytics engine to adjust thresholds dynamically, eliminating false alarms. When a service impediment crops up, such as a resource contention storm involving Virtual SAN, the company will utilize its StormTracker technology to automatically determine root cause and analyze Virtual SAN-specific metrics to resolve triage-level issues quickly.

“Virtualization environments are intended to pivot on a dime, standing up new apps and reconfiguring requirements on the fly for maximum flexibility and resource liquidity, but the lack of visibility to storage behavior is often contentious,” said Atchison Frazer, VP, marketing, Xangati. “With integrated Virtual SAN data correlation, vSphere admins will be able to run virtualization more independently with little storage expertise required and less reliance on external arrays and storage admins for optimizing workload performance.“

“VMworld 2015 US is an ideal place to see firsthand how virtualization is changing storage,” said Gaetan Castelein, senior director, product management, Vmware, Inc. “VMware Virtual SAN, with its ability to replace the hard-to-manage hardware infrastructure, is rising as a better way to handle the new I/O demands and puts storage front and center in the revolutionary changes we’re seeing from virtualization.“