Advanced Performance Monitoring allows for end-to-end performance monitoring of traffic between a server and a storage device, assessing resource utilization on a fabric-wide basis. This enabling technology provides the ability to monitor and watch specific fabric metrics from a SID (Source ID) to a DID (Destination ID), creating a method to be able to fine-tune and scale your fabric more efficiently. Performance Monitoring also allows the ability to have an early warning detection of hot spots within the fabric providing a powerful tool for maintaining overall balanced performance. This results in improved performance tuning that maximizes fabric resource optimization and simplifies SAN capacity planning.

Controllable-Configurable:
• allows the administrator to customize the switch to the specific requirements of their enterprise environment

Controllable-Optimal Performance:
• enable 8Gb pipes with ISL Trunking. Potential network congestion is mitigated by the additional bandwidth

Controllable-Adaptable:
• API Access through PERL scripting capabilities, the administrator can simply automate management tasks, which are unique to each environment

Resilient-Proactive SAN Health:
• The Fabric Watch and Advanced Performance Monitoring features provide the capability to monitor, diagnose and alert the administrator of environmental and performance hot spots. Advance warning to potential problems is critical to maximizing uptime of mission critical environments.