Brocade (Broadcom ) SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View for SAN Platforms Management

Broadcom Inc. announced SAN management platforms, Brocade SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View that delivers a dynamic, and faster SAN management experience.

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In addition, the company announced a replication connectivity solution, the Brocade 7810 Extension switch that moves more data faster over distance to meet demanding DR requirements.

Enterprises are faced with an amount of operational data points and increased infrastructure complexity that can be overwhelming to manage. In fact, according to ESG’s research, 68% of IT decision makers say that IT is more complex than it was just two years ago. To address this complexity, SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View provides visibility across multiple SAN fabrics, transforms SAN behavior and performance data into actionable insights, and reduces administrative tasks through automation. This enables administrators to quickly associate real-time data with historical metrics and logs for in-depth analysis to spot trends, establish baselines, and identify any behavioral changes over time.

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These capabilities accelerate administrative tasks by simplifying workflows and automating redundant steps, making it for organizations to realize their goal of an autonomous SAN.

SANnav Management Portal captures SAN telemetry data and contextualizes this data into visual dashboards, enabling administrators to quickly detect and isolate points of interest for both troubleshooting and performance optimization. For large organizations with multiple SANs within adata center or spread across the globe, SANnav Global View allows administrators to understand the health of all of their SAN resources and navigate from a holistic view down to the individual fabrics and switches in a specific local environment.

“Broadcom is modernizing SAN management through advanced instrumentation, visualization, and automation capabilities,” said Jack Rondoni, senior VP and GM, Brocade storage networking division, Broadcom. “Brocade SANnav Management Portal and Global View are foundational technologies for customers who want to transform their current storage network into a self-healing autonomous SAN.“

“For storage IT administrators, the ability to better manage the data center using advanced tools that include automation remain a key priority,” said Scott Sinclair, senior analyst, ESG. “Information must be effectively managed and protected in the modern data center, and using tools like Brocade’s SANnav will provide IT professionals with a new experience to easily manage their work flow in the data center.“

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Enterprises require a DR plan to ensure that their valuable information is protected from disruptions and outages due to human error or natural disasters. Achieving replication performance and ensuring that data in-flight is secure over distance is difficult, given that storage arrays don’t offer encryption over the WAN and their performance degrades with latency and packet loss.

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The Brocade Gen 6 product family includes the Brocade 7810 Extension switch. It is a replication connectivity solution that cost-effectively and transports data over long distances between data centers. With built-in technology to overcome the inherent challenges of latency and packet loss over distance, the 7810 speeds up replication performance to handle the unrelenting transfer of data between data centers. This allows organizations to substantially reduce costs through less-expensive WAN connections. In addition, it uses hardware encryption to ensure that data-in-flight is protected over the WAN and security compliance requirements are met.

The SANnav Management Portal, SANnav Global View and 7810 Extension Switch are available through the company.

The firm’s OEM partners plan to start shipping the SAN Management software and extension switch and throughout the next several quarters.