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The Storage Management Initiative (SMI): the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 1 “The Good”

The notion of having a common mechanism to communicate with and report on storage devices is good for both us as a company that provides storage analytics software, and for our customers.

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Noisy Neighbors: Discovering Trouble-makers in a VMware Environment

Just a few bad LUNs in an SVC all flash storage pool have a profound effect on the I/O experience of the entire IBM Spectrum Virtualize (SVC) environment.

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A Single View for Managing Multi-Vendor SAN Infrastructure

Managing a SAN environment with a mix of storage vendors is always challenging because you have to rely on multiple tools to keep storage devices and systems functioning like they should.

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Troubleshooting HPE 3PAR Front-end Port Saturation

Poor storage performance, as perceived by the host, is typically caused by either a poor front-end performance caused by a poorly performing/misconfigured storage array or congestion on the SAN fabric.

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Cleaning up the SAN Fabric: Getting Your House in Order Part Two

Cleaning up SAN fabric zones and storage array masking views are often a forgotten part of good storage hygiene. Although unused zones and masking views may seem harmless, they pose an availability risk to your environment on multiple fronts.

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A Single View: Multi-Vendor SAN Infrastructure Part 1

It’s important to have a solution that is as open and responsive to managing your infrastructure performance as your distributed system itself.

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Health Insights, Ratings, and Thresholds with IntelliMagic Vision

This white paper provides an overview of what the colors indicate, how the rating mechanism works, and the key health insights for effectively monitoring disk storage systems.

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This is alarming

To avoid getting overloaded with meaningless alarms, it is important to implement best practices, the first being a software solution that is intelligent.

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Shelfware, IT’s version of Home Exercise Equipment

Unused software, or shelfware, is a pervasive problem in enterprise IT as it doesn't take other factors like personnel, processes, and skills into account.

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How to Reduce the Risk of SAN Service Outages with Topology Views

Whether you are upgrading your firmware on your switches or your arrays or investigating unexpected hardware failures, it is critical to understand which hosts and applications are potentially affected by the changes.

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How to Detect and Resolve “State in Doubt” Errors

IntelliMagic Vision helps reduce the visibility gaps and improves availability by providing deep insights, practical drill downs and specialized domain knowledge for your SAN environment.

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Finding Hidden Time Bombs in Your VMware Connectivity

Seeing real end-to-end risks from the VMware guest through the SAN fabric to the Storage LUN is difficult, leading to many SAN Connectivity issues.

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