Foundation is the core SANscreen product. SANscreen Foundation provides:
- Inventory of all source devices in a SAN.
- Visibility into the following services:
access paths, capacity, redundancy, storage tier, and sharing model for each host in the environment
- Verification that the services delivered meet the application requirements as defined by the storage administrator. Violations are alerted when a change to a device causes a service level to be abnormal
- Root-cause analysis in the event of disruptions to storage services
- Planning to understand the impact of device-level changes before such changes occur
Customer use SANscreen Foundation To:
- Verify the present
- Gain visibility into the different storage services supporting an application including capacity and access
- Access comprehensive global reporting
- Uncover latent quality problems in the SAN and reduce outages
- Record the past:
SANscreen Foundation is the right starting point for organizations looking to implement a storage service management application but do not have requirements for disaster recovery, business continuity or replicated volumes. For organizations with these additional requirements, SANscreen Foundation combined with SANscreen Replication Assurance provides the needed services.
