Capacity Planning
IT organizations need real-time and historical visibility into resource utilization to plan capacity for mission-crtical applications. Enterprises must have robust tools in place that can analyze bandwidth consumption and understand capacity requirements.
Realistically, capacity planning should be a continuous process in order to extrapolate trends and plan sufficient bandwidth for new application rollouts. Many times IT staff does not have sufficient capacity to support mission-critical applications. Other times rogue users and applications consume valuable bandwidth, thereby compromising the performance of the network for these important applications. Visual UpTime Selectprovides visibility into Layers 1-7 visibility across network systems and applications while delivering reports which help network managers identify exactly what applications are running across the network, thereby empowering them to make the necessary adjustments in bandwidth or application management.
Visual UpTime Selectauto discovers servers running on the network, enabling network managers to ensure that servers are not unknowingly added to the network. The Visual UpTime Select AppSummary module tracks applications across the entire network, giving immediate Web-based views of application performance. Enterprise customers benefit from the ability to see the application traffic in real-time as well as being able to scroll back-in-time for historical views of application performance, and can thereby deterrmine if they have exceeded predefined threshold levels.
Many times IT staff make the false assumption that more bandwidth is needed to solve capacity problems, when in fact existing bandwidth is being consumed for non-critical streaming applications like Internet Radio and KaZaA. The Visual UpTime Select AppFlows module offers a deep-dive view into each application flow, allowing enterprises to determine who is using what application on what server. Enterprises can thereby identify bandwidth hogs by drilling down into the servers and the applications they support in order to determine how bandwidth is being consumed.
Visual Burst Advisor provides highly accurate circuit sizing so you can provide the right amount of bandwidth for key applications. Visual Analysis Service Elements (ASEs) collect data down to one-second granularity and provide critical metrics including port utilization and throughput both to and from the network. This information ensures that network engineers are abreast of everything occurring on their circuits. Baselining this performance over time empowers the IT staff to extrapolate network trends, analyze bandwidth consumption patterns and determine how traffic requirements change with each new application rollout. This allows IT staff to proactively plan for infrastructural requirements, thereby giving them full control over the network.
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