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Maximizes infrastructure uptime‒ Prevents problems from occurring

‒ Addresses problems before they impact operations — accelerates problem resolution and recovery

Helps dramatically reduce costs‒ Speeds time to deploy additional

capacity

‒ Reduces day-to-day network administration

Optimizes application performance‒ Minimizes latency and maximizes

network throughput

‒ Complements Hitachi flash storage solutions

ADVANCED MONITORING, MANAGEMENT, AND DIAGNOSTICS

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Avoid Problems

Accelerate Recovery

Accelerate

Deployments

Optimize Application

Performance

Fabric Vision Technology

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• Pre-built rules and automation make policy-based monitoring and alerting simple

MAPS

• Built-in tools provide granular visibility into flows in the fabric to ensure optimized performance

Flow Vision

• Cable and optics diagnostics simplify the deployment and support of large fabrics

ClearLink Diagnostics

• Health and performance dashboard displays all critical information on 1 screen

Dashboards

INNOVATION THAT DRAMATICALLY SIMPLIFIES SAN ADMINISTRATION

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Optimized application performance and availability

Automation to accelerate time-consuming provisioning and troubleshooting

A variety of integrated tools for in-depth statistics and analysis

Powerful dashboard views to instantly pinpoint problem areas

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An enterprise customer was getting ready to deploy a large SAN into production

The cable solution provider had signed off on the cable plan

Before deploying into production, the customer ran ClearLink Diagnostics on the new infrastructure and found hundreds of cable and optics issues that the cable vendor missed

The cable vendor came back and fixed the problems

Downstream problems were avoided

CLEARLINK DIAGNOSTICS IN ACTION

REAL-LIFE CUSTOMER EXAMPLE

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Instantly view out-of-compliance conditions, congestion, and latency concerns on flows

View status of SFPs and a variety of port-level error statistics to locate intermittent issues

View statistics on time-based graphs to correlate events

SAN HEALTH AND PERFORMANCE DASHBOARD VIEWS FOR PROACTIVE OPERATIONS

CUSTOMIZABLE BROCADE NETWORK ADVISOR DASHBOARDS

View the overall health of the SAN and quickly identify potential problem areas

See the number and severity of events, both real-time and historical

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Optimizes application performance and availability

Complements Hitachi flash storage solutions

Accelerates time-consuming provisioning and troubleshooting tasks

Offers integrated tools for in-depth statistics and analysis

Provides powerful dashboard views to instantly pinpoint problem areas

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