VM Aware Fibre Channel Virtual Machine Traffic Visibility for SANs
●Key Benefits
■Increases Visibility of VM traffic: VM-ID tags can be used by the Hypervisor and FC switches to understand the data flowing across its environment to better monitor outages or determining heavier traffic at different points along the path to help mitigate these situations.
■Allows End-to-End Quality of Service (QoS): Ability to apply specific levels of QoS on a per application basis to direct Fibre Channel (FC) traffic from a specific VM through the fabric and onto the end storage device.
■Improves Usage of Storage Devices: Target systems with the capability to utilize VM-ID can optimize the proper performance level of storage device (Flash-based or HDD-based) to be best utilized and match the need of the VM.
●Executive Summary
■Mysteries of the world, such as how the Monarch butterflies can find their way migration paths all the way back to their species’ origination point even though they had never been there before, but these occurrences in nature should remain a complete mystery. With VM clusters generating an increasing amount of FC traffic that crisscrosses across SANs (Storage Area Networks) within enterprise/datacenter ecosystem, these paths and accesses should not remain a mystery any longer.
■With QLogic® StorFusion VM-ID technology the unknown can now be come the known and thereby help improve customers’ experience by providing a more fully informed understanding of how each storage devices’ usage levels is being accessed by every VM in the network. Increased visibility to better monitor the health aspects of each VM connection from end-to-end can assist service providers with better ways to fix problem areas and prevent degradations within their environments.
■QLogic VM-ID is supported with 32GFC and Enhanced 16GFC / Gen 5 FC (Fibre Channel) HBAs (Host Bus Adapters). It works with Brocade’s VM Insight product to provide our mutual customers, the ability to effectively monitor and manage their Fibre Channel storage networks, load balance VM clusters and storage and ensure efficient use of the storage resources. Efficient management of storage resources allows customers to avoid costly upgrades and still meet SLAs demanded by applications.
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