Arxscan

What is Arxscan?

T right the clarity you need to be successful in today's data center environments.

Dynamic Reports

Arxscan's intuitive presentation layers show the entire storage environment in hierarchical relationships that allow the user to drill from the top of the company to the disk and file level with the added benefit of color-coded alerts that bring potential problems to the forefront.

Comprehensive performance

Whether it's total matrix capacity, LUN level details, file count and aging, database inventories across storage, or one of hundreds of other metrics Arxscan offers, the data you need to analyze the environment is at your fingertips and in context with specific Equipment or impacted users.

Detailed metrics

Arxscan reports minute-by-minute performance metrics on user-selected trend timelines for storage and switching arrays. Graphical visualizations are complemented with data tables that highlight points and anomalies.

The Power to Know

Arxview Data Center Analytics Engine (DCAE) brings all the information you need to analyze and report the data center in a lightweight, inexpensive, easy-to-use solution that always lets you know where you are. The characteristic, meaningful rich report gives you the power to provide up-to-date information across high-level management views and detailed administrator networks across virtually all storage metrics. Migrations, equipment upgrades, performance and performance analysis, senior management reports, back-up scaling, day-to-day troubleshooting ... whatever you need to do will be faster, easier, more complete and much more cost effective with Arxscan. Start making progress today by scheduling a full demo of the Arxscan solution.

Everything You Need, Nothing You Don't Do

From high-level specialized projects to day-to-day administration, Arxscan gives any organization the size of the vision they need for enterprise-level data storage and storage initiatives. Unlike Storage Resource Management (SRM) solutions that are targeted exclusively at storage administrators, Arxscan outperforms the space between the data center and business users, providing value to all users at both ends of the spectrum.

Characteristics

Fast deployment

Arxview is running in just one hour, without interruption in the storage network and without the installation of any internal agents or devices. The Arxscan Deployment Team works with you at any time, at no cost, to ensure that the solution delivers immediate value.

Unified views of the entire enterprise

Arxview reports the entire storage network, regardless of the type of equipment, vendor, or volume of data. SAN, NAS, DAS and switching are all included in a single intuitive console.

Data in context

Arxview shows utilization and trend ing, power usage, line-of-business dependencies, and network topologies for end-to-end clarity.

Detailed view of tiered storage

Dozens of metrics that span every aspect of the storage company, from enterprise usage to device statistics.

VMware Mapping

Arxview maps VMware relationships from the guest servers completely to the storage arrays, displaying all the items in this path: virtual instances, host servers, virtual datacenters, storage arrays, storage groups, HBAs, and data storage.

Total performance monitoring

Arxview shows live and historical performance data for a wide range of storage hardware, including Brocade, Cisco, EMC, FalconStor, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, NetApp, and Oracle.

Zero-Touch, agentless deployment

The light network footprint of our products can be attributed to our agentless design... there are no requirements for deploying agents or installing any application code on any client storage device.

Return reports

Arxview calculates reversals based on what is allocated against what is actually being used and displays important details about each storage level, specific to each business unit. For the first time, informed decisions can be made about the age of the data, type, and usage trends, by level, which links actual usage to the cost it generates.

Full line of enterprise data mapping

Arxview maps the data back to the organizational structure of your business and identifies key inefficiencies in that context. This enables business users to manage and measure data usage in a way that makes sense to them: by user, division, department, location, network share, file name, file type, storage tier, and hosting device, empowering them to collaborate with their IT colleagues to ensure the quality and allocation levels of their stored data.

Breakdown of energy consumption

Arxview offers even greater value to its customers by collecting and reporting on the power consumption of the storage appliance. This innovative product feature, unique to Arxview, provides detailed information about enterprise data storage energy utilization. This information is an incalculable part of any action plan that includes the need to allocate and understand energy use and design future energy needs.

Thin-Client Convenience

Arxview is a platform-independent application that leverages the flexibility of a browser-based front end. Any user with login rights can access the system through a web browser.

Fully compatible with all major storage vendors

Arxview supports all major storage types (NAS, SAN, DAS, and switching) and vendors including Brocade, Cisco, Dell, EMC, FalconStor, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, LSI, NetApp, and Oracle.

Extensible design

Arxview has been carefully designed to drive and present a unique perspective. Understanding that customers will readily benefit from a flexible and responsive model, the central architecture is fully extensible. This architecture allows Arxview to include company-defined metrics and calculations to meet the needs or requirements of the company. Defined custom services can also be attached to Arxview as needed, providing leverage to create unique data extracts for use in cube and OLAP tools or as enhancements to an already comprehensive control panel.

Effortless data delivery

Reports are available through a web-based front end and can also be exported for use in MS Excel or other data manipulation applications, or for import into customer databases.

Easy to use

Powerful reporting and monitoring functions are controlled by a simple and intuitive interface. Data is easily exported for use in third-party spreadsheets or data analysis applications.

System requirements

Operating systems

Windows: All current (Windows 2008+);

Unix: All current;

Linux: All current;

Mac: MacOS X v 10+.

File system

CIFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, FAT32, GP F S , JFS, NFS, NTFS, ReiserFS, XFS, ZFS.

SAN Switch Platforms

Brocade: Fibre Channel Switches & DCX Backbones;

Cisco: M D S 900 Series Switches & Directors Nexus Switches;

Hardware

Processor: single processor;

Architecture: 64-Bit

Memory: 6+GB RAM

Disk space: 100+Gb

Hypervisor Platform: VM ware, Hyper-V

Supported browsers

Microsoft Internet Explorer: 7+

Mozilla Firefox: 3.6+

Google Chrome: 50+