Infrastructure Performance Analytics

E N A B L I N G I N F R A S T R U C T U R E

A N D A P P L I C AT I O N S T O

P E R F O R M B E T T E R T O G E T H E R

M A N A G I N G T H E T H R E E P I L L A R S O F VA L U E –

P E R F O R M A N C E , AV A I L A B I L I T Y A N D C O S T

Company Overview

Global Leader in Infrastructure

Performance Analytics

• Founded in 2008

• HQ in San Jose, CA

• Global 2000 Customers

• Every Major Vertical

• 44 of the Fortune 100

• Merged with Load DynamiX in April 2016

Infrastructure

Optimization

Product

Evaluation

Technology

Evaluation

Change

Impact

Analysis

Performance

and

Availability

Mgmt

Technology

Customers Choosing Virtual Instruments

Financial Services Insurance Healthcare

Government Energy & Utilities

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Services Retail

Manufacturing Telco/Service Providers

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Relevance Across Multiple IT Organizations

DevOps Applications IT Operations

• Guarantee performance and availability of mission critical applications

• Optimize workload placements with accurate “what if” analysis

• Establish workload driven evaluation and deployment of new technologies

• Accelerate and de-risk application test and release cycles

• Understand infrastructure requirements / impact of new application workloads

• Create a collaborative approach to availability and performance management

Architecture

The Three Pillars of Value for IT Organizations

AVAILABILITY

MANAGEMENT

Stop Reactive

Troubleshooting

Achieve Proactive

Problem Prevention

Improve Infrastructure

Operations

COST

OPTIMIZATION

Deliver Application

Workload Visibility

Align Infrastructure

With Business Needs

Reduce

Infrastructure Cost

PERFORMANCE

MANAGEMENT

Accelerate And

De-risk Projects

Drive Infrastructure

Transformation

Guarantee Infrastructure

Performance

Understand which new technologies

are best suited for your real-world

production workloads

Infrastructure

Optimization Tiering, caching,

SSD/HDD

mix

Product

Evaluation Specific to your

actual

production

workloads

Technology Evaluation Flash, NFSv4, iSCSI, SDS,

OpenStack, S3, …

Change

Impact

Analysis Effect of tiering,

migration,

consolidation,

upgrades

Production

Performance and

Availability

Management

Infrastructure

Life Cycle

Leverage workload analytics to

model, and simulate real-world

applications and test different

solutions under multiple

scenarios

Combine testing results with real-

time monitoring to optimize

production systems

Deploy, real-time, heterogeneous

monitoring and analytics to drive

proactive performance and

availability management

Test effects of changes in the lab

before deployment. Then

continuously capture, correlate

and analyze trends and changes

in the health, utilization and

performance to understand the

impact of changes in to the

production environment

Accelerate and De-risk Transformation

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Solution Overview

Servers Switches Storage VMs

Data Collection

Topology Performance Analytics Live Reports Real-time

Monitoring & Alarms

Correlation & Modeling

IT Process

Management Workload

Management

Performance

Management

Analytics

Virtual Instruments

Hardware

Probes

Software

Probes

VirtualWisdom Management Software

VirtualWisdom Platform Appliance

Hardware

Probes

Workload

Importer

Load DynamiX Enterprise Software

Workload Generation Appliance

Performance

Analytics

Product Suite Overview

Load DynamiX Enterprise

Production storage Lab storage

3 Fibre Channel SAN Performance Probe

Models

Virtual Server

Probe

NAS Storage

Probe

Network

Switch Probe Workload Generation Appliance

Workload

Data Importer

FC TAP

FC Switch

Servers and VMs

VirtualWisdom Management Platform

Workload Sensor

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What Our Differences Mean to You

1. Continuous, real time monitoring and analytics enables advanced correlation and visualization of

infrastructure health, performance and utilization

• Provides definitive insight into the end to end infrastructure supporting application workloads

• Transforms infrastructure management from reactive to proactive to predictive by identifying and alerting on

specific areas of potential risk and opportunities to drive optimization

• Instantly proves whether the infrastructure is the cause of application slowdowns, often reducing root cause analysis

from weeks/months to hours/days

2. Best in class production workload modeling and simulation offers the most accurate “what if”

analysis available to improve decision making and de-risk change

• Enables technology and product evaluation based on your specific workloads

• Storage architect productivity greatly enhanced by automated workload analysis, modeling, test management, and

reporting, vs. the scripting and DIY methodology of legacy tools

3. Unparalleled Professional Services expertise augments your team for maximum productivity and

fastest time-to-operationalization

Optimize Storage / Infrastructure Investment

• Eliminate over/under-provisioning by aligning your workload requirements to deployment

decisions to dramatically reduce costs

• Improve your existing infrastructure health, utilization and performance

Mitigate Risk and Guarantee Performance

• Identify issues before deployment by testing at extreme scale and worst-case conditions

• Detect infrastructure problems before they become application problems

• Establish, measure and meet performance based SLAs

Accelerate Troubleshooting • Capture, correlate and analyze application workload for an end to end view of performance

• Re-create problems in your test lab to move from reactive to proactive to predictive

Innovate with Confidence

• Adopt the latest technologies without the fear of unpredictable performance

Benefits of Using Virtual Instruments “Vendor-agnostic source of truth”

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