Visual One Intelligence vs. 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.


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.

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.

Visual One IntelligenceSANnav
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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