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A storage administrator notices an increasing number of storage targets that unexpectedly reach capacity, causing periodic service interruptions. The administrator must now create and submit a daily…
The correct answer is B. Cisco DCNM with SAN Insight. To monitor and report on storage target capacity and status within a SAN environment, Cisco DCNM with its SAN Insight feature is the appropriate solution.
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A storage administrator notices an increasing number of storage targets that unexpectedly reach capacity, causing periodic service interruptions. The administrator must now create and submit a daily report of the environment that shows the status of the storage targets with the highest capacities. Which solution provides this information?
Options
- ANagios Core with OpManager
- BCisco DCNM with SAN Insight
- CSolarWinds with Slow Drain Analysis
- DCisco Intersight with Slow Drain Analysis
How the community answered
(34 responses)- A3% (1)
- B74% (25)
- C15% (5)
- D9% (3)
Why each option
To monitor and report on storage target capacity and status within a SAN environment, Cisco DCNM with its SAN Insight feature is the appropriate solution.
Nagios Core is a general-purpose monitoring system, and OpManager is for network performance, lacking the deep, integrated SAN-specific telemetry and capacity reporting capabilities of DCNM with SAN Insight.
Cisco DCNM (Data Center Network Manager) with its SAN Insight feature provides comprehensive telemetry, analytics, and performance monitoring specifically for Fibre Channel networks, including detailed metrics on storage target utilization and capacity, making it ideal for reporting on targets reaching high capacity.
SolarWinds is a general IT monitoring suite, and while it offers storage monitoring, 'Slow Drain Analysis' is a feature more focused on performance bottlenecks rather than raw capacity reporting.
Cisco Intersight is a SaaS management platform for UCS and HyperFlex, but it is not primarily focused on detailed SAN fabric telemetry and capacity reporting for storage targets in the same way DCNM with SAN Insight is for Fibre Channel environments.
Concept tested: SAN monitoring, storage capacity reporting, Cisco DCNM SAN Insight
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/cloud-systems-management/datacenter-network-manager/white-paper-c11-740700.html
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