ISE Storage Management Software

Mapping, monitoring, measuring and provisioning storage in virtual and physical environments within a user-friendly management console is nearly impossible with today's solutions.

Unpredictable storage requirements, inefficient capacity utilization and storage administration costs are driving the need for actionable storage intelligence software.

Xiotech's storage resource management platform, ISE Manager and ISE Analyzer, delivers simple storage planning and administration for virtual and physical environments, without the need for intensive classroom training and four-inch thick user guides.

ISE Manager and ISE Analyzer are built on CorteX, Xiotech's web services RESTful architecture. CorteX enables the ISE management platform to be easily integrated with infrastructure applications, operating systems and custom-developed scripts to effectively simplify, centralize, and automate your administration in one location.

Xiotech's Storage Management Platform

Simple Storage Administration
for Virtual and Physical Environments

The ability to predict and plan for new storage requirements is essential to effective prevention of downtime and productivity losses. It is nearly impossible within today's traditional solutions to map, monitor, measure and provision storage in the rapidly expanding virtual and physical views (utilizing one user-friendly management console). In fact, companies have been conditioned by vendors to accept a tradeoff between ease-of-use and robust storage management. Many old-fashioned array storage management software packages provide a multitude of unused features and lack open web services-based API's (that could maximize integration with applications).

Intelligent, application-oriented storage is disrupting today's approach to provisioning storage and enabling a global view of resources. And ISE Manager is at the head of the curve.

ISE Manager is an intuitive management interface that provides simple, user-friendly storage and server administration without sacrificing precision. It allows for the enterprise to simplify, centralize, and automate the administration with software tailored for intelligent storage. The seamless integration of multiple Intelligent Storage Element (ISE™) units creates a dynamic performance-driven cloud of storage for host applications. ISE Manager is the platform to navigate, deploy, and provision storage throughout the cloud.

ISE Manager Provides:

• Complete Storage Management in a Single Cloud No longer do you have to manage each storage device individually. ISE Manager enables you to deploy and provision storage as part of a storage cloud instead of as individual devices.
• Simplified Provisioning and Capacity Deployment Traditional storage provisioning requires a dozen or more steps across the storage system, the server, and the virtual or physical machine. ISE Manager allows you to create new volumes with a simple three-click process.
• Real-Time Storage Performance Dashboard ISE Manager collects telemetry data from ISE storage and reports it at a granular level. This allows you to avoid bottlenecks, allocate resources more effectively, and create more accurate forecasts for storage needs.
• 3^rd Party Hypervisor Integration ISE Manager's award winning Virtual View feature incorporates is layered on top of off-the-shelf management software from VMware, Citrix, and Hyper-V. This creates a compatible environment without any lost functionality and dramatically reduces setup time for virtual storage.
• Intuitive Windows OS-like Interface ISE Manager will look familiar, as it is designed to function using intuitive menus and wizards similar to common Windows Operating Systems. ISE Manager is easy enough for a novice user to operate, but provides all the functionality expected by an advanced user.
• Simple, user-friendly storage and server administration without sacrificing precision Allows the user to manage all ISE across sites as part of a single storage cloud or to create multiple clouds. This enables the user to more effectively navigate and provision storage across the entire network.
• Enables the deployment and provisioning of storage in the same application Provides start to finish provisioning in both physical and virtual environments using wizards in conjunction with 3rd party software to provide full functionality in an easy to use interface. These features save time and ensure efficient data management.
• Storage Administration Platform Tailored for Intelligent Storage Map, monitor, measure, and provision storage in your rapidly expanding virtual/physical environments. ISE Manager and ISE Analyzer, our user-friendly web services-based storage management platforms, enable you to deploy and provision storage as part of an internal storage cloud. You can analyze, streamline, and predict storage capacity with ease.

ISE Manager enables the deployment and provisioning of storage in the same application. It provides start-to-finish provisioning in both physical and virtual environments. Wizards, in conjunction with 3rd party software, provide full functionality in an easy-to-use interface. This culmination of features saves time and ensures efficient data management.

Software for Better Storage Insight

An Intuitive, Graphical, Browser-based Resource Manager for Analyzing, Streamlining and Predicting Storage Capacity

Organizations able to effectively manage storage through robust reporting can save time and money...money that can be applied elsewhere in the organization to create additional value. Maximizing performance, increasing utilization and lowering the administration costs of existing storage assets drives greater return on investment. Yet, current storage resource management tools fall short in providing the analytics, reports and alerts necessary to optimize existing storage infrastructure. Subsequently, unpredictable storage requirements, inefficient capacity utilization and storage administration costs are fueling the need for storage intelligence software.

The ability to predict and plan for new storage requirements is essential to effective prevention of downtime and productivity losses. Enter ISE Analyzer: a Web-Based, Application-Centric Storage Management Tool.

Built on CorteX, ISE Analyzer provides actionable analytic information for ISE storage solutions. When deployed locally, ISE Analyzer collects and processes performance data from Xiotech products in real-time. Detailed trending and analytic reports can be created for topics such as performance utilization, capacity utilization, charge-back, etc. In addition, ISE Analyzer has a dynamic user interface, from which you can view historical data, or real time data if choosing to deploy an ISE Analyzer appliance on-site.

ISE Analyzer Provides:

• Greater Storage Infrastructure Yields and Efficiencies Being able to identify usage patterns allows you to allocate resources in the most efficient way possible, which means that you won't have to buy as much storage or buy storage as frequently.
• Informational Alerts to Improve Storage Performance Users can securely make changes to the system, knowing that any adverse effects will be identified. Having the ability to identify issues before they become major problems helps maintain application performance and availability, and also limits costly downtime which otherwise would lead to lost productivity.
• Better Storage Usage Analysis and Budget Forecasts The ability to track storage usage over time enables users to create accurate budgets and forecasts. This can help you identify the right time to buy more storage. More accurate forecasts mean you won't end up buying more storage than you need and you won't under-spend and end up with insufficient resources.
• Storage Administration Platform Tailored for Intelligent Storage Map, monitor, measure, and provision storage in your rapidly expanding virtual/physical environments. ISE Manager and ISE Analyzer, our user-friendly web services-based storage management platforms, enable you to deploy and provision storage as part of an internal storage cloud. You can analyze, streamline, and predict storage capacity with ease.
• ISE-based Application-Centric Storage Solutions CorteX provides opportunities for ISE integration with leading infrastructure and business applications, including Citrix Xen Server, Microsoft Hyper V, and VMware ESX & vSphere. Within the outermost software layer of each ISE, CorteX, a web services-oriented storage API, creates opportunities for standard and custom application-centric Emprise 9000 storage solutions. A variety of CorteX API's are available today...with support for custom solutions.
• A Simple Web-Browser Interface
• The Ability to Monitor ISE at the Volume Level
• Exportable Data for Custom Analysis
• Historical Data Available via Customer Portal
• Real-time Data Available via ISE Analyzer Appliance

Having the ability to identify issues before they become major problems helps maintain application performance and availability. An enterprise that limits costly downtime can manage and contain potential lost productivity. ISE Analyzer will be a critical piece of your VDI environment.

The Solution: ICON Manager

Xiotech's ICON Manager has completely changed the storage management landscape, providing the easiest storage and server administration ever available. ICON Manager is the first and only user interface to bring storage management and storage-related server administration together in one place. Even novice administrators can effortlessly manage storage just as they do Windows volumes. Creating Windows and Linux volumes and assigning them to servers is a simple point-and-click operation from a single console.

For more experienced users, ICON Manager offers fine-grained control of advanced functions. Other views assist with monitoring system health, managing physical components, and more. Thus you can efficiently manage storage and view system information in the most appropriate context for your needs. Not only does this save you time, but it reduces the time it takes for new administrators to get up to speed.

More ICON Manager Views:

System View
System View shows high-level infor mation about the storage cluster. At a glance, you can see how the cluster's storage is provisioned and if you need to make any changes. System View displays information such as performance statistics; number of physical disks, virtual disks and virtual links; total capacity; and capacity by RAID type.

Status, Logging, and Tools Views
These views support monitoring, reporting, license management, and diagnostic actions. In these views, you can configure management ports, install new licenses, and set parameters for ActiveWatch, Xiotech's proactive support service that remotely monitors your system and alerts you of any potential issues—before they affect system availability.

Web Services

The innovation does not stop there. ICON Manager is the only storage management platform designed on an industry-standard Web Services foundation, providing seamless integration with other Web Services-enabled programs. With the associated ICON Services Software Development Kit (SDK), you can easily customize reports and automate storage functions to meet your unique needs. Web Services also enables Xiotech to deliver advanced capabilities faster than would otherwise be possible—thus evolving the interface to meet your needs for years to come.

Intelligent Provisioning

Intelligent Provisioning, another industry first, automatically grows Windows storage volumes based on policies that you set. You use capacity only as you need it, without the risk of over-subscription that is common with other systems.