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SANWatch®

SANWatch, the storage management suite,  provides all functions necessary to discover, configure, administer, and monitor Infortrend's EonStor RAID arrays; be they remote or many. The SANWatch also provides management interfaces for EonPath and Snapshot functions, so that not only you can management your storage easily, but also all data protection and high availability features can be accessed through one interface

 

 

  • Overview
  • Feature and Benefits
  • System Requirements

SANWatch Storage Management Suite

SANWatch is a Java-based management platform not only for managing storage hardware but also providing data protection capabilities such as snapshot and EonPath(multi-pathing). More advanced features, including Volume Copy, split mirror and Remote replication, will be implemented on the same platform:

SANWatch suite consists of

More functions and features will be added to SANWatch later.

Flexible Deployment:

SANWatch supports either in-band or out-of-band management using in-band commands or TCP/IP for local or remote management. Independent agents can function as the intermediate, bridging elements for centralized management of multiple RAID systems.

Management access is made either from a local host or remotely over the network.

SANWatch, the storage management suite delivers:

Features Benefits

Complete centralized management

  • Automatically discover and monitor all EonStor systems via an at-a-glance summary of storage status
  • Clearly displays the status of the shared-storage pool for better storage planning and utilization

Easy multiple and single array monitor and configuration

Discover, monitor, save/restore, configure and upgrade firmware via user-friendly tools to  simplify management, save time and reduce errors

Disk performance monitor and management

Oversees each physical disk drive and provides early warning of potential problems to help ensure consistently high performance

Add-on data service features

  • Snapshot support for easy data protection
  • Other data service can be added on based on customer need

Notification service

Automatically displays and sends notification of critical status changes and events for proactive administrative action

Multi-pathing (EonPath)

Multi-pathing module provides path redundancy and load balancing

Operating System:

Software:

OS SANWatch Management Data Service: Snapshot
Out-of-band In-band
Microsoft Server Win 2003 (32) R2 SP2 v v v
Win 2003 (64) R2 SP2 v v v
Win 2003 (32) R2 SP2 Cluster - v -
Win 2003 (64) R2 SP2 Cluster - v -
Win 2008 (32) Enterprise v v* v*
Win 2008 (64) Enterprise v v* v*
Win 2008 Enterprise (32) Cluster - v** -
Client Win XP SP2 v - -
Vista Ultimate v - -
Linux RedHat RHEL 5 U1 (32), 2.6.18 v v* -
RHEL 5 U1 (64), 2.6.18 v v* -
SuSE SLES 10 SP1 (32) 2.6.16.46-0.12 v v -
SLES 10 SP1 (64) 2.6.16.46-0.12 v v -
Sun Solaris Solaris 10 Sparc v v -
Apple Mac OS Mac OS X 10.5 v - -

* Not applied on iSCSI models

** Not applied on SAS and iSCSI models

Hardware:

  • Computer must have at least one available Ethernet port (over TCP/IP).
  • A fax modem that supports Hayes AT command protocol is required (if using the Fax event notification function.) (Fax command class 2.0 and above.)
  • A GSM modem is required (if using the SMS short message event notification function). SANWatch currently supports two GSM modem models:Siemens TC35 and WAVECOM Fast Rack M1206

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