Virtual Instruments Enhances VirtualWisdom for Simplified Channel Deployments With WisdomPack

Virtual Instruments, Inc. announced a range of channel-focused features in its latest version of VirtualWisdom, a hybrid IT infrastructure management and AIO/s platform.

These features include the introduction of WisdomPacks, simplified packages of integrations specific to customer deployment environments. The combined enhancements will simplify deployment and empower channel partners to provide customers with application assurance for mission-critical workloads across their hybrid infrastructure.

TEnterprise applications are complex and increasingly deployed across hybrid IT infrastructure – often spanning on-premise data centers and multiple clouds at immense scale. These environments make it impossible for humans to contextualize and correlate all the potential causes of application slowdowns, and the range of disparate tools, approaches, processes and data only increase the level of complexity.

In order to address these challenges, the company is introducing WisdomPacks, a way for channel partners to provide customers with the next generation of hybrid IT infrastructure management and AIO/s platform. It simplifies the deployment process of VirtualWisdom by packaging key capabilities, best practice alerting and investigations to improve knowledge, visibility, discovery and monitoring across any environment.

“Our customers have made it clear that when it comes to selecting infrastructure management and AIO/s solutions, they value flexibility and performance assurance above all else,” said Neil Mistry, founder and CEO, Managing Information Systems 3, Inc., a member of Virtual Instruments partner network. “Virtual Instruments’ new WisdomPacks not only make it easier for us to deploy VirtualWisdom for customer specific environments, but also simplifies the order and configuration process. This ultimately gives customers the infrastructure management capabilities that they want, when they need them.“

By holistically monitoring, analyzing and optimizing the performance, availability, capacity and efficiency of hybrid IT infrastructure within the context of the application, VirtualWisdom enables enterprises to take a modernized, AIO/s-empowered approach to infrastructure management. The company offers 6 WisdomPack licenses for VirtualWisdom, each featuring capabilities that have been curated to address customers’ infrastructure challenges, including:

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• WisdomPack for Server Virtualization
  The WisdomPack for Server Virtualization module includes agentless software integration for monitoring VMware vCenter, Hyper-V, and IBM PowerVM. The data collection of many dozens of metrics enables optimizations across all leading virtual server infrastructures.

• WisdomPack for SANs
  The WisdomPack for SANs module monitors FC network infrastructure from Brocade and Cisco. Monitoring of Brocade switches is supported with or without Brocade Network Advisor.

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• WisdomPack for OSs
  The WisdomPack for OSs module is an agentless software integration for host OS monitoring of compute infrastructure within Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud environments. The module obtains statistics related to CPU, memory, network and disk usage.

• WisdomPack for Enterprise Storage
  The WisdomPack for Enterprise Storage module includes agentless software integrations for enterprise storage array monitoring including NetApp, IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC), Dell EMC VMAX/PowerMAX, Isilon. It monitors the performance, health and capacity of the arrays and enables the reclamation of unused capacity.

• WisdomPack for Storage Wire Data
  The WisdomPack for Storage Wire Data features company’ family of hardware-based SAN and NAS Performance Probes, supporting NFS, SMB, FC and iSCSI for real-time I/O processing and application performance slowdown detection. It also includes agentless wire level software-only monitoring of 32Gg FC Cisco SANs when Cisco SAN Telemetry Streaming is enabled on the Cisco MDS devices.

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• WisdomPack for SDS
  The WisdomPack for SDS module includes agentless software integration for SDS monitoring including Dell EMC VxFlex OS hyperconverged system (previously ScaleIO), VMware vSAN. It monitors the performance, health and capacity of the SDS and enables the reclamation of unused capacity.

“It is critical that today’s enterprises have the ability to assess and proactively manage the performance, availability, utilization and health of hybrid IT infrastructures in the context of their mission-critical applications,” said Paul Brodie, VP, global OEM and channel sales, Virtual Instruments. “With the new version of our award-winning VirtualWisdom solution, we’re providing our partners a simplified way to give customers the access and services they need to deliver on performance SLAs and assure application service delivery – and business value – across their entire hybrid environment.“

VirtualWisdom WisdomPacks are available.

The latest version of VirtualWisdom will be showcased and available for demo at the Pure//Accelerate 2019 conference, taking place in Austin, TX, from September 15-18.