Batch Magic
A powerful tool designed to assist you in optimising the performance of your tape environment, and the planning of future investment in Tape Equipment.
IntelliMagic
IntelliMagic offers advanced and high quality software for storage performance analysis and configuration planning.
Disk Analysis & Planning Disk Magic
Disk Magic is a powerful and versatile Disk performance analysis and modelling tool for IBM, EMC and Hitachi disk sub-systems.
It provides you with a thorough understanding of your current Disk Subsystems performance and enables you to make better purchase and configuration decisions.
Benefits:
Show the current utilisation levels
Compare bandwidth requirements and response time impact
Chart current and predicted response times
Show what the result would be of consolidation
Analyse whether your most critical application could run better
Predict the performance benefit that will be gained from increasing cache size
Features:
Compatible with z/Series, Unix, Linux and Windows Environments
Presents results in Graphical User Interfaces & text reports
Automates data input
Interprets data to create a mathematical representation
Provides tutorial & extensive online help
Disk Magic Applications (click on the links below to find out more):
When doing a health check of your Disk Subsystems, Disk Magic gives access to information that is not available otherwise: it shows the utilisation level of internal components such as internal data buses and processors, information that is critical in determining the safety margins at which you are operating.
When making investment decisions, you need to know whether the current Disk Subsystems will be able to absorb the expected load increase. With Disk Magic you can explore the space left for growth and you will know which Disk Subsystem component is going to be the bottleneck. This allows you to explore the feasibility of a partial upgrade, workload redistribution, or complete Disk Subsystem replacement.
For z/OS workloads, Disk Magic offers a cross-sysplex view of current performance at the Disk Subsystem, Logical Subsystem or Logical Volume level. Volume level presentation makes it surprisingly easy for the performance analyst to identify volumes with unusual or unwanted performance characteristics, and to explore possible improvements by modelling configuration changes.
In a consolidated disk configuration many servers may be attached to the same Disk Subsystem. For such a configuration, Disk Magic shows I/O load and response time predictions for the whole Disk Subsystem, or by server.
For i/OS, Disk Magic can also show data at the level of Auxiliary Storage Pools. This allows you to predict what would happen if certain ASPs would be moved to a different disk type, while retaining the other workload on the current disks.
Use Disk Magic to explore to what degree your business could benefit from new technology options. For instance, do you need to use 15k RPM, 73GB disk drives for your specific I/O load, or could you benefit from more economical 300GB technology?
Disk Magic allows you to plan and monitor what effect copy services have on response times and on the utilisation of the Disk Subsystem. It also calculates what the inter-site bandwidth requirements are. Disk Magic supports all IBM’s Copy Services schemes such as Metro Mirror (PPRC), Global Copy (Asynchronous PPRC), and Global Mirror for zSeries (XRC).
Disk Magic