Virtual Instruments announced WorkloadWisdom, a significantly enhanced and rebranded version of its Load DynamiX Enterprise storage performance validation solution.
In addition to delivering a superior methodology for validating storage performance based on customers’ own production workloads and a new 25GbE Workload Generator, the new WorkloadWisdom is more tightly integrated with Virtual Instruments’ breakthrough new version of VirtualWisdom, an app-centric infrastructure performance monitoring and analytics platform.
The new WorkloadWisdom provides a scalable high-performance platform for storage workload modeling, testing, validation and performance analysis from production-to-the-lab. The new platform delivers a 5-10X improvement in results reporting over the previous version, particularly for larger scale test environments. The new version completes the production-to-the-lab solution for automated workload analysis and temporal modeling for all Tier 1 storage technologies by adding coverage for SMB, complementing existing capabilities for NFS, Fibre Channel and iSCSI. By delivering unprecedented realism, scalability and analytics, and a significantly improved user experience that mirrors the ease-of-use of VirtualWisdom 5.4, WorkloadWisdom simplifies the entire storage performance testing, validation and forecasting process. This results in deployment decisions that can save millions in storage costs and ensure the performance of business-critical applications.
The WorkloadWisdom 6.0 release features new capabilities in three key areas: High Speed Fabrics support, Scale-Out/Cloud NAS testing, and VirtualWisdom Integration. These are enabled by WorkloadWisdom’s storage vendor-agnostic architecture, which is designed to analyze and perform “what-if” analysis across production workloads, validate storage systems with true production workloads, and forecast future performance capacity. Furthermore, through WorkloadWisdom’s integration with VirtualWisdom, the new release takes an app-centric approach to storage performance testing and validation by analyzing workloads within the context of the enterprise’s business-critical applications.
Key features and benefits of WorkloadWisdom 6.0 include:
Higher Speed Fabrics:
- Availability of new 25GbE Series Workload Generator, complementing the existing 32GbFC and 40GbE Workload Generators
- Full storage technology coverage for new Workload Generators:
SAN: iSCSI, Fibre Channel
NAS: SMB 1.0/2.x/3.x, NFSv2/v3/v4.x
Object: HTTP / HTTPS, S3, Swift, Cinder
Unprecedented Testing Scale:
- Dramatic increase in the number of workload generation ports supported
- A 5-10X performance improvement in results reporting over the previous version of the platform
Redesigned User Interface Significantly Reduces:
- The time needed to create complex test beds for iSCSI environment
- The time needed to find older test results amongst thousands of result sets
Expanded Scale-Out NAS / Cloud NAS:
- Introduction of production-to-the-lab automation for the SMB file protocol: SMB file environments can access production workload data using the Workload Data Importer, and Users can also obtain SMB production workload data from VirtualWisdom ProbeNAS, which monitors SMB and NFS environments
- Ability to deduplicate workloads for NAS deployments
VirtualWisdom Integration:
- WorkloadWisdom fully integrates with VirtualWisdom to comprise Virtual Instruments’ new app-centric approach to IPM
Broader Array Support for Workload Data Importer:
- The WorkloadWisdom Workload Data Importer analysis policies now cover all major storage arrays from NetApp, Dell EMC, IBM, Oracle, HPE and Pure Storage – dramatically simplifying the workload creation process
“Virtual Instruments has a deep understanding of the critical role and value that storage delivers across the enterprise IT stack,” said Tim Van Ash, SVP of Products at Virtual Instruments. “With WorkloadWisdom 6.0, we’re able to help our customers make highly accurate and data-driven decisions about their storage deployments. As a result, our customers are able to fully understand workload performance requirements and optimize their storage investments while assuring the performance of business-critical applications and data.”
WorkloadWisdom 6.0 is available at the end of February, and the 25GbE Workload Generator is available now.
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