Item: IntelliMagic Vision for SAN
Rating: 10
Author: Jeff Judy

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 and Cons

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

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

Most Important Features

reporting
alerting

Return on Investment

the ROI value is in the speed to review issues and generate reports

Alternatives Considered

Solarwinds Storage Manager
Nagios
Stor2RRD

Key Insights

Do you think IntelliMagic Vision for SAN delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IntelliMagic Vision for SAN's feature set?

Yes

Did IntelliMagic Vision for SAN live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of IntelliMagic Vision for SAN go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IntelliMagic Vision for SAN again?

Yes

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.

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

Overall Satisfaction with IntelliMagic Vision for SAN