
Go beyond other tools with switch & host capacity planning, easy topology for troubleshooting, and automatic host connections – no manual input required.

SAN Switch Monitoring & Management Software
Visual One Intelligence®’s switch topology & monitoring features streamline visibility across Brocade & Cisco switches and hosts through mapping, health, and forecasting details.
The result? Fewer surprises, greater efficiency, and stronger storage ROI.
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Fabric Observability
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Data Continuity
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Optimized Operations
Map & Troubleshoot Connectivity
Our global topology maps outline and monitor all of your switch, port, host, and storage connections – no more manual troubleshooting required.
Plus, unlike other switch reporting tools, you don’t need to manually add new host connections. We do it for you!
Prevent Incidents & Make Quick Repairs
Monitoring and health summaries give you preventative insights into the state of your switches, including root-cause analysis that drills down by port and device.
Our integration with ServiceNow makes it easy to start immediate remediations.
Optimize Switch Utilization & Costs
Enhance switch ROI with a full suite of capacity planning abilities.
Rely on automatic end of life / support calendars – plus the option of continued support even after your device’s EOSL
Why Should I Use Visual One Intelligence® in My SAN Environment?
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Unbeatable Simplicity
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Eliminate Friction
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Replace SANnav
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Consolidate Tools

The few products that do exist for switch analytics are typically configured once and then forgotten. Many clients find these other software products cumbersome due to:
- Required software maintenance,
- firmware prerequisites,
- latency requirements,
- additional license charges,
- custom configurations, and
- overall complexity.
Visual One’s data collection is as simple as entering a switch name and authentication to complete reporting setup. That’s it!
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.
If that matches your requirements, Visual One Intelligence is the tool for you.

SANnav is an ideal tool for setting up large quantities of new SAN switches, defining custom switch policies, and deploying architecture templates across multiple switch environments. However, this niche doesn’t apply to most infrastructures.
Visual One Intelligence features robust switch reporting that:
- is simpler to use
- correlates seamlessly with your entire infrastructure
- optimizes your asset ROI
- promotes operational continuity
There are very few software products that include Visual One’s level of detailed analytics: topology visualization, heath reports, capacity planning, error analysis, weekly email efficiency reports, future workload planning, IT asset optimization, centralized observability, budget enhancements, etc.
We consolidate hybrid infrastructures by analyzing everything all together in one place as a single unified system.
SAN Switch Monitoring FAQs
Visual One Intelligence® collects and reports data from all Brocade and Cisco SAN switches. To see what other devices we are compatible with, visit this page.
It certainly can be. In enterprise environments, it’s common to work with as many as 20,000 ports (or more). Besides monitoring them all for errors and misconfigurations, it’s important to be able to easily identify what hosts and zones they are mapped to and which ports are unlicensed.
There are not many tools available for this kind of analysis, and as a result many enterprises use SANnav to monitor their SAN environment. However, SANnav can be expensive and complicated – especially for small-to-medium sized environments.
Visual One Intelligence® offers a less expensive, easier-to-use, and more platform-comprehensive option for switch analytics.
SANnav is an ideal tool for setting up large quantities of new SAN switches, defining custom switch policies, and deploying architecture templates across multiple switch environments. However, this niche doesn’t apply to most infrastructures.
Visual One Intelligence® includes robust switch reporting that:
- is simpler to use
- correlates seamlessly with your entire infrastructure
- optimizes your asset ROI
- promotes operational continuity
Unlike SANnav, Visual One Intelligence® offers automatic host connection listings, global topology, switch capacity planning, EOL / EOM calendar and continued support, ServiceNow integrations, and more.
Visual One Intelligence®’s data collection is as simple as entering a switch name and authentication to complete reporting setup. No required software maintenance, firmware prerequisites, latency requirements, additional license charges, custom configurations, or overall complexity.
For a full technical overview of Visual One Intelligence®’s SAN functionality (compared with SANnav’s functionality), click here.
Our single-pane-of-glass data displays make it easy for clients to analyze hosts and the ports they are mapped with together. That way, when a host encounters an issue, clients quickly rule out (or identify) a switch-level root cause.
In addition, performance trending and capacity planning help clients monitor usage and ensure they always have enough licensed ports available for their future projects – avoiding last-minute license purchases and budget changes.
Moreover, Visual One Intelligence® provides extensive reporting, modeling, monitoring, and optimizing for nearly all storage environments including SAN storage. Learn more here.
We report on multiple SAN switch data points, including:
- Port availability
- Port speeds
- Port speed maximums
- Licensed / unlicensed ports
- Unused ports
- Firmware versions
- Performance trends
- Utilization trends
- Utilization forecasting
- Alerts / offline ports
- Errors over time
- Errors by port
- Zoning
- Host connections
For a full technical overview of Visual One Intelligence®’s SAN functionality (compared with SANnav’s functionality), click here.
Yes! With a standard subscription you have full, 24/7 data collection and reporting on everything in your cloud / compute / on-prem environment – including all of our SAN switch visibility and insights.
If a standard Visual One Intelligence® subscription isn’t the right fit for you, Visual Cloud Intelligence is available as a stand-alone offering dedicated solely to reporting in virtualization environments.
Either way, you can try us out free for 30 days.

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