MONITOR - SOLUTIONS BRIEF NetPod Application-Aware Network Performance Management Solution Dynatrace and Emulex, a new industry standard. At a glance NetPod™ is an agentless, network-based realuser monitoring solution designed for high-speed networks, providing complete visibility across multiple tiers, infrastructure components and web and non-web applications. It gives IT organizations rapid fault domain isolation required for resolution of end user experience problems, and proactively spots and resolves application performance issues as they occur. NetPod supports the most complex, multi-tier application platforms such as SAP, Citrix, Oracle Forms, VoIP, Exchange, MS SQL, XML/SOAP, and more. It intelligently monitors and records real-time application performance across complex delivery infrastructures including leading load balancers, firewalls, servers, WAN optimizers, middleware and web/non-web clients. Best-of-breed capabilities n Real-time user experience monitoring n Network traffic analysis n Network packet capture and recording n Centralized monitoring and management n In-depth protocol decode for key applications n On board packet analysis Solution benefits n n n n n Best-in-class application transaction analysis Instant access to deep network history provides deterministic evidence enabling cross-silo collaboration between IT teams 100% analysis and recording of network traffic at 10Gb, 40Gb or 100Gb Ethernet (100GbE) Highest density AA-NPM solution for maximum data center consolidation benefits Proactive transaction monitoring means you get alerted before end users experience degredation Introduction As businesses increasingly rely on applications hosted in complex data center and cloud infrastructures, visibility into application performance has become even more critical, and the dependency a network has on this visibility has become paramount. Ultimately, it is a smooth and efficient end user experience that ensures customer satisfaction, and visibility into this interaction is key to ensuring business success. NetPod is a robust Application-aware Network Performance Management (AA-NPM) solution, and is ideal for data centers with virtual and physical servers, as shown in Figure 1. Passively collecting network traffic, with auto-discovery of all applications, servers and clients on the network, NetPod analyzes critical areas such as transactions, usage and end user experience. Winning application Architecture Load balancer Web server Application Application servers servers Database and back-end servers Internet/Intranet AMD NetPod vAMDs DC RUM User Figure 1. NetPod support for popular applications. NetPod is widely used to provide application and network-layer insight across the industry’s most extensive set of enterprise environments, including SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, Citrix-hosted applications and many others. NetPod Application-Aware Network Performance Management As network speeds and loads increase, maintaining packet-level historical data represents a challenge for organizations. NetPod’s 100 percent accurate packet capture ensures all data is available for analysis when needed. With seamless access to these packets using network analysis modules, NetPod sets the bar as the most comprehensive AA-NPM solution on the market. With access to packet history NetPod enhances visibility into application and network performance issues. It combines the best of application and network analysis for the lowest time-toresolution (TTR) of any issue. www.emul ex.c om Endace USA Limited 2291 Wood Oak Drive, Suite 150 Herndon, VA 20171 Phone +1 703 378 0601 Fax +1 571 392 3700 The solution at work The NetPod solution is housed in a 4U rack-mount appliance, enhancing data center consolidation by reducing size, weight and power (SWaP) requirements. Packet capture can be executed either immediately or at a designated time of relevance, with the data securely stored in the NetPod device. With automated multi-point collection, users can retrieve data from multiple NetPod appliances and automatically display this trace file-level data through a web interface using NetPod’s transactional analysis tool. NetPod provides detailed packet-level analysis with integrated application-contextual suggestions and brings the ability to do detailed packet level forensic analytics to the data center network teams. Application visibility into your network infrastructure matters The NetPod solution collects, analyzes and visualizes live traffic from the network and application. It empowers network and infrastructure operators to immediately isolate faults that impact application performance and end user experience across web, middleware, database and network tiers. This application-aware network visibility solution can increase the availability and effectiveness of your missioncritical applications and ensure business uptime. Endace Europe Limited Trinity Court, Molly Millars Lane, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG41 2PY, UK Phone +44 (0) 118 977 2929 Fax: +44 (0) 118 977 3237 Endace Australia Pty Ltd. Level 32 101 Miller Street North Sydney NSW 2060, Australia Phone +61 2 8912 2157 Phone +1 800 196 594 Emulex Corporate Office 3333 Susan Street Costa Mesa, CA 92626, USA Phone +1 714 662 5600 ©2014 Emulex, Inc. All rights reserved. This document refers to various companies and products by their trade names. In most cases, their respective companies claim these designations as trademarks or registered trademarks. This information is provided for reference only. Although this information is believed to be accurate and reliable at the time of publication, Emulex assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions. 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