The complete Storage Area Networking design, modeling and simulation system, delivering unprecedented ease of use and end-to-end modeling from StorageCorp Systems

SANmetrix™ allows Storage Architects to develop, prototype and prove physical and logical SAN characteristics in the knowledge that production fabrics will not be adversely affected by their changes.

SANmetrix™ contains all the features Storage Architects, Management Professionals and administrators could ask for to model, prototype, prove and manage SAN designs.

Starting with the generic component layout view, progressing to developing the required connectivity model, then continuing to add detail to include logical and physical path mapping right the way through to fabric zoning, FSPF architecture and fabric analysis, highlighting potential bottleneck or over subscription issues.
SANmetrix™ with it's advanced, yet extremely intuitive zone intuitive zone management and unique, Patent pending, simulation features allows Storage Architects and Storage Administrators to build, test and subsequently manage complex SAN fabrics in minutes. All fabric and port information is stored within the configuration files, effectively making your SAN, self documenting, saving hours of manual, tedious and error prone documentation.

SANmetrix™ Storage Area Networking design and modeling system assists you to develop and build resilient, robust and proven SAN solutions that fulfill if not exceed the stringent requirements of today's Storage Architectures, future proofing your IT Organizations strategic storage decisions and helping ensure the optimum return on investment possible with the least amount of disruption.

Designed for ease of use, flexibility and efficiency, SANmetrix™ helps to improve SAN design and fabric development, maximizing resource and bandwidth utilization. SANmetrix™ has the potential to improve your return on investment of existing SANs and reduce the SAN Total Cost of Ownership through making the most efficient use of installed components.

The Fabric Path View allows the Storage Architect to plan for, and develop the most efficient use of available ports for throughput and redundancy. Showing available paths from node to node through the fabric and calculating the FSPF [Fabric Shortest Path First] The Zone View instantly highlights all nodes within the selected zone for easy and immediate identification, whilst highlighting any un-zoned components.

SANmetrix™ provides a comprehensive visual modeling environment that delivers a powerful combination of notation, guidelines, and tools to meet the type of challenges presented in today's SAN development environments. 

At StorageCorp Systems, we take the approach that SAN design and modeling is as much about helping prevent problematic fabrics, as it is about finding and resolving these issues. SANmetrix™, patent pending, simulation technologies reduce the likelihood of performance issues by allowing accurate load simulation the immediate models to be build and tested, prior to hardware installation or change. Simulations of growth patterns will also allow storage architects and capacity planners to assess current or future requirements with a more methodical approach. At StorageCorp we call this approach to modeling, extreme SAN technology. Architects and Fabric Developers, who give our approach a try, say that it not only saves time, effort and expense, but also reduces their time-to-market cycles and brings a whole new outlook to the, often problematic, testing phase of their storage strategies. The freely distributable SANreader™ enables your designs to be portable providing a read only display of simulation and analysis environments to additional resources not directly involved in the design phases but requiring access to input from the architects. SANmetrix™ provides an extremely powerful and simple "in-band" security management and real-time monitoring console when combined with the world class SANsentinel™ security management system. SANsentinel™ can assist your IT organization with re-enforcing information storage security policies also helping to ensure compliance with industry and government regulatory requirements. 

Features

• Intuitive graphical User

• Interface

• Visual and textual display of components and pathing

• Component Drag and Drop layout

• Reduced risk of fabric crashes

• Improved throughputs and resource usage

• Cost effective and efficient modeling and simulation

• Zone, port and asset management register

• SAN self documenting properties

• Robust, resilient architecture design

• Allows design creativity to overcome storage issues

Future proof, Fibre Channel and iSCSI ready

Specifications

• Microsoft Windows NT/2000/ XP
• Pentium II 200, mouse or pointing device, 64MB RAM, 256 colors or above
• 100MB Disk space (Installed)

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About StorageCorp Systems
StorageCorp Systems Pty Ltd is a privately held company, its parent company; StorageCorp Pty Ltd has been established and operating since 1998. Its founders identified significant opportunity to provide innovative system automation and management solutions to the networked storage industry.

StorageCorp Systems Pty Ltd and StorageCorp Pty Ltd have evolved from an extensive background in systems automation and management through years of experience in developing solutions for the bulk commodity and petrochemical industries, both of which involve highly complex pathing and storage concepts along with business critical 24 x 7 x 365 day uptime requirements.

This, along with many years in the IT storage arena has provided StorageCorp with a solid foundation upon which to build upon in the world of Storage Area Networking. 

StorageCorp Systems are true innovators in SAN technology and solution development to solve today's complex Information Technology storage problems.