The Problem with SANnav
Visual One Intelligence’s switch & hybrid infrastructure reporting is…
Simple
We have found that most customers primarily
want their switch analytics tool to stick to the
fundamentals:
- report how their infrastructure is already configured
- give insight to plan for the future
- resolve and prevent the problems that exist in their environment today
- use a simple interface (without extra “bells and whistles”) that does not require
training - do it all at an affordable price.
Comprehensive
There are very few software products that include Visual One’s level of detailed analytics:
- topology visualization,
- heath reports,
- capacity planning,
- error analysis,
- weekly emailed analysis and reports,
- future workload planning,
- IT asset optimization,
- centralized observability,
- budget enhancements, etc.
Side-by-Side Comparison of Visual One Intelligence vs. SANnav
Visual One Intelligence | SANnav | |
---|---|---|
SIMPLICITY | ||
Only one pre-requisite (VM with SSH or HTTPS access to switches) – no hardware requirements | ✔ | ✘ |
Automatic host connection listings | ✔ | ✘ |
Setup takes 30 second per switch; no user manual necessary | ✔ | ✘ |
OBSERVABILITY | ||
Discover new switches & track configurations | ✔ | ✔ |
Host / switch / storage topology | ✔ | ✔ |
Global topology plus hybrid storage, host, compute, and cloud monitoring & reporting | ✔ | ✘ |
Retains up to seven years of historical data | ✔ | ✘ |
Zone topology & configuration | ✘ | ✔ |
OPTIMIZATION | ||
Switch capacity planning | ✔ | ✘ |
EOL / EOM maintenance calendar plus continued support after device EOM | ✔ | ✘ |
Deploy policies & configuration blocks to switches | ✘ | ✔ |
CONTINUITY | ||
Switch monitoring, health summaries, and error details | ✔ | ✔ |
ServiceNow integration | ✔ | ✘ |
No user backups or recovery plan needed | ✔ | ✘ |
Realtime switch monitoring | ✘ | ✔ |
PRICING | ||
List price for 0 – 600 ports (no directors) | $30k | $15k / PB |
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