Nfina-View Remote Monitoring and Failover Software for IaaS and DRaaS

As digital transformation accelerates and the IT landscape becomes more complex, most small, mid-size, and enterprise organizations have adopted some form of hybrid cloud or multi-cloud IT infrastructure while maintaining on-premise data storage. So how do they efficiently manage and monitor their multi-faceted IT networks?

Nfina-View from Nfina Technologies, Inc. is a cloud-based unified management dashboard built to improve IT responsiveness and efficiency by enabling IT administrators and MSPs to see important information about their organization at a glance. It integrates data from an IT infrastructure, including servers (on-prem and cloud), storage pools, and networking, and provides a summarized view of the entire data network.

Monitoring and alerts are the foundation of any IT management software. You’ll be notified in real-time about potential problems before they happen. Alert notification thresholds are customizable on a per-node basis to suit system needs. The node status summary will include; Current status (IP address, uptime, memory, system health)m, CPU utilization (percent used, performance summary, memory (total used, percent used, performance summary), and Disc space (total, available, percent used).
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With summary view, user can see health of IT ecosystem at glance:

• Quickly view zones, clusters, and node details such as status, IP address, uptime, memory health, CPU utilization, memory, and DiskPool information.

• Hardware details include the health of the power supplies, fans, motherboard voltages, and HDDs. Storage Pool details provide information for the storage pool status, capacity, Zvols, datasets, read cache, snapshots, and clones.

• Storage Pool details provide information for the storage pool status, capacity, Zvols, datasets, read cache, snapshots, and clones.

• Network details display the hostname and interface details such as IP address, MAC address, speed, model, Tx/Rx errors, drops, and status. 

• Set up trigger alerts to notify administrators of potential issues.

Unlike competitor dashboards, Nfina-View provides on-prem and cloud monitoring, plus failover, rollback, and DR testing capabilities. Failover, rollback, and DR testing are simple operations and do not require rebuilding and repopulating data. Nfina-View removes complexities associated with shifting workloads from one site to another by incorporating site-to-site Failover and Rollback operations. If the primary system fails or a proactive shift of your workloads is necessary, you can Failover and restore operations at a secondary location to keep downtime at a minimum. Nfina-View can restore an entire system’s state to an earlier point in time, using built-in Rollback functionality: this is critical if a ransomware attack occurs and corrupts the IT ecosystem. During a ransomware attack, the rollback functionality can have all of the customers’ data back online within minutes.

Node details shown include one storage pool imported at the time of the screenshot. Within each storage pool, you receive the health status of the storage pool. A capacity summary for each storage pool, shown in the pie chart, displays the amount of free space left on the storage pool, used production data space, and snapshots. This summary is helpful when determining a retention plan based on Snapshots. Zvols (LUNs) and datasets on pools are visible with metrics for the administrator.
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Nfina-View also includes automated DR testing that allows administrators to power on and connect to VMs in the DR location. While most organizations have backups, they seldom test them. Backups are critical in one’s network but are only effective if they are functioning and ready to deploy. The DR testing allows to test backups in their location, giving peace of mind that Nfina-View can restore your systems if needed. Since not all restorations involve an entire system, Nfina-View’s instant clones from system immutable snapshots allow for machine and file-level recovery

Warren Nicholson, president and CEO, explains, “Nfina-View is designed for hybrid IT and supports variable deployment possibilities, including fully on-prem, private cloud, public cloud, colocation, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud. Organizations of all industries and sizes who desire an interface providing real-time and historical data on system state and performance will benefit from our software.”