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:
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)
Server Requirements (Multi-Host Deployment)
Source: https://www.broadcom.com
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
