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Dell EMC World: Virtual Instruments Launches VirtualWisdom 5.2

Accelerates time to resolution for challenging infrastructure performance issues with improved visualization.

At Dell EMC World, Virtual Instruments, Inc. announced VirtualWisdom 5.2 offering IT teams a simple yet comprehensive understanding of the health, utilization and performance of the infrastructure underpinning their business-critical applications.

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VirtualWisdom 5.2 delivers actionable insights so that collaborative teams can proactively assure performance, optimize cost and reduce risk throughout their constantly changing data center infrastructure.

VirtualWisdom Performance Probe

In addition, the company announced a lower-cost, entry-level 12-port 16Gb SAN Performance Probe for FC environments, giving customers more deployment options and expanding the reach of the VirtualWisdom Performance Probes to regional data centers. This probe reduces the per-port cost of real-time performance monitoring by approximately 35%.

Attendees at Dell EMC World have seen VirtualWisdom 5.2 in operation, as the solution is part of a demonstration with the VMAX 950F all-flash storage array, an all-flash storage system ever offered by Dell EMC. The company will support real-world workloads simulated by the firm’s Load DynamiX Enterprise workload generators and monitored by VirtualWisdom 5.2.

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Virtual Instruments continues to be a strong and innovative Dell EMC partner across all of their infrastructure performance monitoring and storage performance testing platforms,” said Adnan Sahin, senior director and engineer, VMAX storage solutions, Dell EMC. “We’re excited to showcase the extreme performance, scalability and reliability of the VMAX all-flash 950Fto Dell EMC World attendees.

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VirtualWisdom 5.2 features support hyperconverged architectures and improved visibility of hybrid IT infrastructure environments, providing real-time situational awareness throughout the entire enterprise IT organization.

Key features include:

  • Topology visualizations that allow users to instantly identify fabric component speed mismatches;

  • Dashboard enhancements that make it easier to produce application-focused views that aggregate data across key infrastructure components;

  • Expanded usability to accelerate systems configuration and apply the right analytics to accelerate problem resolution;

  • Personalization pages so users can select their preferred User Interface theme;

  • Enhanced navigation support for more breadcrumbs, as well as detailed and turnkey selection options for analytical views and preferences;

  • REST API access with token-based authentication; and

  • Beta support for the hyperconverged VxRails platform including VMware, Inc.VSAN data collection, which can be incorporated and correlated with the VirtualWisdom management and analytics platform. In addition, VirtualWisdom will support the Dell EMC ScaleIO software-defined-storage platform later this year.

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With our new Performance Probe, alongside VirtualWisdom 5.2, we’ve lowered the barrier to entry for critical visualization and analysis of vast infrastructure data,” said Philippe Vincent, CEO, Virtual Instruments. “Our App-centric IPM can now give a broader customer base insight into their infrastructure performance within the context of supported applications, making infrastructure teams even more valuable to the application owners they support.”

I continue to be impressed with Virtual Instruments, as they are clearly listening to their customers and aggressively evolving the VirtualWisdom platform for the increasingly hybrid data center,” said George Crump, founding analyst and chief steward, Storage Switzerland LLC. “The company’s unique combination of real-time monitoring, advanced correlation, and actionable analytics are essential for organizations that can’t tolerate performance slowdowns or IT infrastructure outages.

VirtualWisdom 5.2 is available on May 16.

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