Broadcom Released Brocade® SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View

Broadcom has officially released the pairing of new suite software for empowering the IT administrators to be more efficient and productive by providing comprehensive visibility into the SAN environment. These software are : Brocade® SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View.  These tools transform information about SAN behavior and performance into actionable insights, allowing administrators to quickly identify, isolate and correct problems before they impact the business. 

In addition, SANnav Management Portal and SANnav Global View accelerate administrative tasks by simplifying workflows and automating redundant steps, making it easier for organizations to realize their goal of an autonomous SAN.

By Using SANnav Management Portal, the IT Administrator has many advantages as follow:

  • Simplified Management, Modern UI, with a user workflow focus to dramatically simplify SAN management
  • Enhanced Monitoring, Modern customizable heatlth, performance, event, inventory, security and status dashboards
  • Rapid Troubleshooting, Instant view of fabric-wide conditions, powerful log analysis, historical and real-time data
  • In-context topology Views, View fabric topology based on context of host, target, fabric, zone, etc

With SANnav Global View, the IT Administrator could quickly visualize the health, performance, and inventory of all the fabrics across all SANnav Management Portals using a simple, intelligent dashboard.

Product Highlights
• Streamline workflows to accelerate the deployment of new applications, switches, hosts, and targets
• Transform information into actionable insights to quickly identify and isolate problems
• Quickly visualize and isolate points of interest with simple-tounderstand topology views
• Minimize manual tasks by automating data collection and reporting
• Capture SAN telemetry data and translate it into visual health and performance dashboards
• Easily navigate the entire SAN from a global view down to local environments
• Automate the identification and reconfiguration of out-ofcompliance fabrics and switches
• Increase workflow efficiencies with an intuitive one-click navigation


Server requirement for running these software in your environment.


Server Requirements (Single-Host Deployment)

Product/Edition Max. Switch Ports/Instances
Under Management
Operating System Host Type CPU Memory Hard Disk
Brocade SANnav Management
Portal Base Edition
600 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Bare Metal/ESXi VM 16 cores 48 GB 600 GB
Brocade SANnav Management
Portal Enterprise Edition
Up to 3000 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Bare Metal/ESXi VM 32 cores 48 GB 600 GB
Between 3000 to 15,000 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Bare Metal/ESXi VM 16 cores 96 GB 1.2 TB
Brocade SANnav Global View Up to 6 SANnav Management
Portal instances
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Bare Metal/ESXi VM 16 cores 32 GB 300 GB


Server Requirements (Multi-Host Deployment)

Product/Edition Max. Switch Ports/Instances
Under Management
Operating System Number of Hosts/Nodes in Clusters Host Type CPU Memory Hard Disk
Brocade SANnav Management
Portal Enterprise Edition
600 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 3 Bare Metal/ESXi VM 16 cores 48 GB 600 GB


Source: https://www.broadcom.com


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