Visual One Intelligence vs. SANnav
Visual One Intelligence includes robust switch reporting and insights that are simpler to use, correlate seamlessly with your hybrid infrastructure, optimize your asset ROI, and promote operational continuity.
The Problem with SANnav
Overly Complex
It shouldn’t take over 500 pages of user training to do configuration, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
Too Many Requirements
Firmware prerequisites, software maintenance, latency requirements … there’s a lot that needs to happen just to make things work.
Narrow Focus
Specializing in switches also means limited integrations throughout the rest of your infrastructure – adding to tool sprawl in your ecosystem.
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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