Solutions
IntelliMagic Vision is designed to address your most difficult storage performance challenges. The table below describes the challenges and our solutions:
| Storage Challenge | Solution | zOS | Distributed |
| Avoid Problems | The IntelliMagic Vision daily dashboard provides early warning of constrained components inside the storage system to proactively avoid problems. |
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| Understand and Utilize Available Performance Capacity | IntelliMagic Vision lets you understand how close you are to the limits of the hardware components inside of the storage system so that you can avoid exceeding those limits and/or avoid replacing the hardware prematurely. |
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| Discover Root Causes | Easy to use drill downs to quickly identify problem areas. |
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| Monitoring and Planning Link Effectiveness | Link efficiency refers to how much data the host is able to transfer to the storage system in a given period of time. IntelliMagic Vision provides deep insight into the link effectiveness including FICON and Fibre | √ |
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| Understanding Relationships between Logical and Physical Resources | In order to effectively manage performance of enterprise disk storage systems it is crucial that the relationships between the physical and logical resources be exposed and reported on. IntelliMagic Vision provides transparency to physical resources supporting the logical entities within a storage system. |
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| Automating Performance Reporting | In order to reduce manual effort and save time IntelliMagic Vision embeds a scripting language into the product to fully automate processing and reporting so that reports can automatically be directed to an Intranet site or any desired location. |
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| Improving z/OS Disk Throughput with PAV | Parallel Access Volumes provide a mechanism for significantly improving the parallelization of I/O workloads. The challenge with PAVs is how to easily determine the appropriate number of aliases for your volumes. IntelliMagic Vision provides recommendations on the number of aliases required for both HyperPAV and Dynamic PAV configurations. |
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| Monitor and Plan for Asynchronous Copy Services | Telecommunications bandwidth is extremely expensive and very important to size appropriately as too much bandwidth is a drain on an organization's budget and too little bandwidth will leave asynchronous copy services impotent as a disaster recovery solution. Since upgrading bandwidth can take months it is very important to right size bandwidth requirements. IntelliMagic Vision computes the amount of bandwidth required for those devices that are part of the data mirroring configuration. |
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