Certified Emulex professionals and select partners provide an unmatched level of I/O management expertise, ensuring:

• Timely I/O performance and availability status and expert advice on I/O management best practices
• Meeting service level agreement (SLA) commitments by baselining existing performance and quickly identifying and resolving complex I/O performance and availability issues with the assistance of I/O management experts
• Assistance to administrators to correlate past IPAS Advanced data with current changes by reviewing historical and real-time latency, volume, I/O protocol events and I/O infrastructure to quickly diagnose and resolve underlying I/O infrastructure issues

Emulex IPAS reduces operational expenses (OpEx) with periodic IPAS Advanced service, ensuring enhanced network performance and availability across the data center

• Powerful I/O performance and diagnostic tools, based on the information collected by OneCommand Vision, provide the ability to proactively address I/O performance and availability issues, eliminating the need for high-cost, reactive problem resolution
• Evaluation for new additions or changes to applications and I/O infrastructure, ensuring right-sizing of the infrastructure's I/O handling capability, thereby avoiding potential costly application performance problems

Emulex IPAS reduces capital expenditures (CapEx) by identifying underutilized I/O paths and devices that can be re-provisioned for use with new application deployments. Reports show pertinent utilization information, such as underutilized SAN attachments, LUNs and target ports.

Emulex IPAS builds on the value of OneCommand Vision, which uses a non-intrusive software-based architecture that supports heterogeneous environments (applications, operating systems, servers, adapters, hardware and software virtualization, switches and storage)

• Offering multi-vendor operating system and virtualization specialists, including VMware®, Microsoft Windows®, Linux and Oracle® Solaris
• Broad APIs provide upward integration into enterprise-class SAN, network management and service provider management applications