Does ProSphere report on application trending?

I am a former Ionix user and recently refreshed my environment with VNX7500's. I no longer use Ionix but was told I am entitled to ProSphere. Do people like this new application? Is it simply Ionix with a new look? How are The reporting capabilities? Are you able to trend application growth as well like Exchange, Oracle, SQL, Vmware ect?

Am I better off with VNX Reports, Solar winds, Aptare?

Thanks in advance!

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ConorLawlor

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April 11th, 2013 08:00

Hi KForce,

IONIX was a brand name which covered a lot of products within the SRM and IT OPs space.

ProSphere is easy to deploy and use but it will not give you the trend application growth details you are looking for in the above post.

For Information on what objects ProSphere can discover, provide reports and performance details please review the documentation section of https://support.emc.com/products/15995_ProSphere

Some of the benefits of ProSphere include:

Ability to quickly add, move, and remove deployed instances of ProSphere as necessary
Ability to detect, anticipate, and predict performance problems
Ability to use policy-based data collection modes to support problem diagnosis
Ability to view the full context of a problem to speed diagnosis
Ability to produce summaries for operational managers, to enable efficient management of resources
Ability to view the current status of storage infrastructure utilization
Ability to identify current or anticipated problems in a storage infrastructure
Ability to discover the elements in a SAN and view discovered inventory and object details
Ability to view end-to-end paths of a selected object that appears on topology maps
Ability to tag configuration items with meaningful attributes
Ability to synchronize data between deployments of ProSphere
Ability to dynamically scale ProSphere to meet the requirements of a data center
Ability to share a distributed cache between virtual machines in a vApp, allowing ProSphere to scale to large environments
Ability to avoid requiring complex firewall policies

Usefull blog here http://www.vtexan.com/2013/01/08/how-to-install-emc-prosphere/ on deploying 1.7 with screenshots

Videos available on EMC Corp page on youtube which lets you see the look and feel of ProSphere http://www.youtube.com/user/EMCCorp/videos?query=prosphere

VNX Monitoring and Reporting software solution extends Unisphere element manager capabilities by providing unified performance and capacity trending information of VNX storage systems. This solution complements Unisphere's health alerts and Analyzer archive files in order to improve the efficiency of your storage environment https://support.emc.com/products/28885_VNX-Monitoring-&-Reporting

Or

Speak with your EMC account team about Watch4Net https://support.emc.com/products/28924_Watch4net this should have the reporting capabilities for trend application growth for Exchange, Oracle, SQL, Vmware etc....

Regards

Conor

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