Data Collection and Automated Processing
IntelliMagic Vision for SAN uses various API’s and native CLI commands to get the raw performance counters directly from VMware Vcenters, storage arrays and SAN switches. It then prepares, enriches, assesses and rates the measurements and loads the data into persistent storage for automatic assessment and interactive analytics.
The following picture demonstrates a high level flow of the supported data sources into IntelliMagic Vision:
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