Virtualization and Cloud architectures now come hand-in-hand, delivering infrastructure as a service in private, public and hybrid forms. With virtualization driving up infrastructure utilization and cloud computing significantly increasing the amount of resource sharing among departments (private cloud) and clients (public cloud), I/O availability and performance are stressed to extreme levels, creating an I/O problem. I/O contention throughout the system has become the critical blind spot. OneCommand™ Vision is the solution.

With CPU and network intentionally targeted for higher efficiency through higher utilization, I/O contention throughout the system is escalated and is not addressed by traditional siloed resource management tools. It takes expertise sitting on the server, with a clear line to storage, to know what is happening with I/O. Emulex delivers that expertise.

Emulex OneCommand Vision is the first I/O management tool that proactively monitors I/O from the application's perspective, allowing data center managers to:

• Manage I/O performance from the origination of the I/O request – the application. Wire performance metrics, such as exchange completion times, are more interesting the closer they are to the actual application, but nothing is a better assessment of storage I/O impact than the view from the application.
• Manage I/O availability and redundancy based on what is visible and available to the application, accounting for disruptions unseen when simply monitoring downstream configurations
• Establish and manage I/O availability and performance service level agreements (SLAs) from the application's perspective, including situations where storage infrastructure is outsourced to a third party
• View dashboards and reports to quickly assess I/O availability and performance across the entire infrastructure or specific groups within the environment
• Expedite true problem management by combining I/O availability and performance data with the forensic capability provided by OneCommand Vision Analytics and Correlation Engine (ACE)
• Increase the utilization of existing infrastructure, thereby avoiding unnecessary infrastructure purchases

OneCommand Vision's non-intrusive, pure software architecture integrates easily into existing data center environments and is designed for use in heterogeneous network environments, providing broad operating system support and interoperability with Emulex and non-Emulex brand adapters. With a distributed deployment model, OneCommand Vision delivers superior scalability and a comprehensive global view of I/O availability and performance, making it the solution of choice for IT administrators. OneCommand Vision provides standards-based connections into enterprise management frameworks, allowing the data and intelligence to be integrated with existing tools to provide a true end-to-end application performance management solution.

Check out how OneCommand Vision works with Microsoft® System Center 2012, giving Windows users critical time-saving features.

Emulex OneCommand Vision 2.0 awarded silver award based on judges feedback that OneCommand Vision 2.0 is a “very useful analytical performance tool that requires no additional hardware,” and noted that it looks “at performance problems the way users do -- from the server out, end-to-end.”