IBM Network Advisor V11

Highlights

• Simplify operations by providing centralized, end-to-end network management of SANs, including 16 Gbps Fibre Channel and converged FCoE environments
• Provide critical flexibility to seamlessly scale from small environments to large-scale and highly distributed geographic locations
• Manage storage and data networks separately or through a single instance of the product to simplify network management and to provide greater flexibility and visibility across environments
• Provide comprehensive support for Fibre Channel SAN management with configuration, zoning and visualization capabilities, including end-to-end HBA and CNA, storage and SAN fabric switch topology views
• Integrate seamlessly with hypervisors and management solutions from other vendors

The IBM® Network Advisor V11 is a software management platform that unifies network management for storage area networks (SAN) and converged networks. It is designed to provide a consistent user interface across Fibre Channel and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) over data center bridging (DCB), along with custom views and controls based on the users' areas of specialization.

The IBM Network Advisor offers flexibility in deployment and operational models, including traditional SAN deployments (Fibre Channel, IBM FICON®, iSCSI, and NAS) and end-to-end convergence (FCoE, iSCSI and NAS).