Innovative capabilities for monitoring, troubleshooting, diagnostics and proactive event notification
Proactively monitor critical fabric health information
Configure Quality of Service (QoS) priorities for applications running on both physical and virtual servers
Collect and display performance statistics in real-time and with historical views for proactive problem determination
Capture, back up, and compare switch configuration profiles through advanced cloning
Perform automatic data collection and trigger Call Home notification for earlier fault isolation, diagnosis and remote support
Automate repetitive tasks through an intuitive wizard-driven approach
Streamline firmware download, switch configuration, backup/restore and the collection of diagnostic data across groups of switches
Edit zone information and preview the impact of proposed changes without affecting the production fabric
Provide a configurable fabric snapshot/compare capability to track changes to fabric objects and membership
Generate reports for status changes, port usage, zoning activation, and more—either on-demand, automatically on a scheduled basis, on in response to a fabric event
Configure and manage FICON™ and cascaded FICON environments while providing powerful analysis and diagnostic facilities
Configure, monitor and optimize Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) tunnels across WAN links
Support Fibre Channel Routing, including configuration, zoning, visualization, analysis and troubleshooting
Provide detailed visibility into performance utilization of hardware and network bandwidth
Measure and display real-time and historical network performance to identify under- and over-utilized links and maximize application availability and performance
Maximize Return on Investment (ROI) by better utilizing existing infrastructure resources and identify new network requirements
Generate a comprehensive inventory of components while creating an intuitive device map to visualize the end-to-end topology of data center fabrics
Facilitate capacity and availability planning with reports that can be shared across organization