Unified Fabric Manager™ Software for Data Center Management
Features & Benefits
- Application-centric fabric management
- Unlimited scalability across application, database, and storage servers
- Ideal for scientific, commercial HPC, enterprise and cloud applications
- In-depth visibility of traffic behavior, fabric and device health
- Advanced congestion management
- Routing optimization based on workloads and topology
- Configurable threshold-based alarms for instant problem resolution
- Fabric segmentation and Class of Service configuration
- Central Device Management
- Seamless failover in high-availability mode
- Web Services integration API for seamless integration in customer environments
- Enables multiple isolated application environments on a shared fabric
Scale-Out Fabric Management Software
Voltaire’s Unified Fabric Manager (UFM) is a powerful platform for managing demanding scale-out computing environments. Now data center operators can efficiently monitor and operate the entire fabric, increase application performance and maximize fabric resource utilization.
UFM uses an innovative application-centric approach to bridge the gap between servers, applications and fabric elements. UFM's revolutionary fabric model allows users to manage fabrics as a set of business related entities such as time critical applications or services. UFM’s management infrastructure enables fabric monitoring and performance optimization on the application-logical level rather than just at the individual port or device level.
Advantages of the UFM approach include:
- Improved visibility into fabric performance and potential bottlenecks
- Improved performance due to application-centric optimizations
- Quicker troubleshooting time due to advanced event management
- Efficient management of dynamic and multi-tenant environments
- Higher utilization of fabric resources
Real-time Monitoring and Performance Optimization
UFM includes an advanced granular monitoring engine that provides real time access to switch and host data. The software also provides a unique congestion tracking feature that quickly identifies traffic bottlenecks and congestion events spreading over the fabric. This feature enables more accurate problem identification and quicker resolution.
UFM also optimizes routing algorithms by taking into consideration the fabric topology, the various services and active applications and their characteristics. UFM optimization features are built on top of the OpenSM industry standard routing engine, which provides fast fabric bring up with leading edge routing algorithms and maximizes the use of available fabric bandwidth. In addition, UFM enables segmentation of the fabric into isolated partitions, increasing traffic security and application performance.
Robust, Production-Ready Solution
Fabric wide maintenance tasks are performed from a central location and improve operational efficiency and control, and group operations are enabled via a single mouse click.
Failovers are handled seamlessly and are transparent to both the user and the applications running on the fabric. This lowers significantly downtime and makes UFM along with Voltaire’s products the ultimate management tool for the most demanding data center environments.