IntelliMagic Vision for SAN Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

Score

8.5 out of 10

Reviews

4 Reviews

"IntelliMagic Vision" helps us on our vision for ZERO outage

Rating: 9 out of 10

December 22, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using IntelliMagic Vision to identify capacity trends, errors in our SAN infrastructure, especially FC SAN switches, anomalies. We like the feature to compare the recent measured values against the same one week or one month before to identify trends and anomalies. With IntelliMagic Vision we will visualize any hidden errors and get them fixed before they may cause any outage.

Pros

Comparison of metrics from today to the day a week before to visualize any trends
drilldown into the end-to-end mapping from the individual host to the Storage pool on the DSS
Easy-of-use changing of reports/thresholds as needed

Cons

the interface could be a bit more modern

Likelihood to Recommend

it's well suited for large-scale FC SAN fabrics with Storage arrays which are supported by Vision

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

IntelliMagic shines

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 31, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Intellimagic Vision for SAN is an excellent tool for our company as it tracks key IT metrics such as storage pool levels, read/write throughput, I/O Rate, etc., for our various vendor storage systems. Over time we are able to determine usage and growth.

Pros

gathers and provides detailed metrics when experiencing storage related problems
excellent reporting tool for SAN and storage
supports multiple vendors

Cons

I have not come across any

Likelihood to Recommend

One of our SAN switches was experiencing high utilization and we were able to determine which slot and port on the switch was the problem using Intellimagic's reporting feature showing the top x utilization ports. IntelliMagic Vision for SAN reporting provided granular level data making it easy to work on the problem at hand.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

A good one-stop reporting tool for SAN, storage, and SVC

Rating: 10 out of 10

August 16, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used by SAN and storage team. IntelliMagic Vision for SAN gathers performance metrics for both SAN and storage, and this allows reporting and performance monitoring and trending.

Pros

Performance metrics for multiple vendors and equipment models
Stability and reliability of the system
Ease of report creation

Cons

Additional reports needed for IBM SVC replication monitoring
Additional new equipment not yet monitored
Automated report generation and distribution is not easy to implement
Trending and projections into the future are needed

Likelihood to Recommend

Performance metric gathering for storage units, SVC virtualization layer, and Brocade SAN switches/directors are rock solid. Built-in reports cover the most-used scenarios, and the report creation has been improved to let you build the custom reports not already covered.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

IntelliMagic Vision give deep insight and top to bottom view of your storage architecture

Rating: 10 out of 10

July 19, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a Disaster Recovery service provider and we provide DRaaS cloud-based services to our clients. We have a very mixed storage environment that services IBM Mainframe, pSeries (AIX), iSeries (AS/400) and x86 environments. Intellimagic monitors and reports across all of our storage platforms to quickly alert us to issues and historical capacity and performance information.

Pros

The reporting capabilities are some of the best in the industry
The granular metric details that are captured are extremely helpful when reviewing storage performance
The ability to link hosts to volumes and report on specific host performance based on volume performance is very helpful
Storage Area Network switch monitoring is critical to alerts such as buffer credit overflows

Cons

object storage reporting is missing
virtual hypervisor host storage reporting is missing

Likelihood to Recommend

Intellimagic is well suited for any environment but particularly heterogeneous environments where you need a single reporting tool to tie together all of your storage arrays, storage fabric switches, and host endpoints to clearly and quickly see where you might have a problem.

Jeff Judy

Disaster Recovery Chief Cloud Architect in Information Technology at Recovery Point Systems (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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