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Rewind Your Network
Stop missing critical network events. Instead, rewind your network
to quickly troubleshoot sporadic performance problems.
The GigaStor network recorder provides massive data collection and unique
time-based analysis that eliminate the need to recreate problems, rapidly
decreasing resolution time.
Storing up to 576 TB of network data for days, weeks, or months, our network
recorder eliminates finger-pointing between network and application teams by
providing proof of what occurred. Use GigaStor to navigate to the exact moment a
problem happened, and see a detailed packet-level view of before, during, and
after the occurrence. Monitor LAN, WAN, Ethernet, Gigabit, 10 Gb, OC, and Fibre
Channel networks.
Save Troubleshooting Time
GigaStor's retrospective network analysis (RNA) capabilities give
you the benefit of perfect hindsight for attacking every network problem and
anomaly. With continually captured data, GigaStor makes it easy to rewind your
network, determine the problem source, perform comprehensive analysis and move
on.
By removing the guesswork and the need to start a packet capture,
RNA greatly speeds network troubleshooting and provides long-term corporate-wide
benefits.
With retrospective network analysis:
* Quickly isolate and resolve network and
application issues
* Ensure successful application
deployments
* Reconstruct and troubleshoot VoIP
calls
* Investigate and document compliance violations
See RNA Explained
Drill Down on Problems
In an enterprise, minutes of downtime can quickly multiply into
hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars lost. With terabytes of stored data,
it's critical to be able to sift through the data and pinpoint the problematic
transactions.
Use GigaStor's unique time-based navigation and comprehensive
expert analysis to quickly drill down from high-level issues to perform
root-cause analysis. From an enterprise-wide view, you can track bandwidth
utilization, network Top Talkers, application metrics, NetFlow data, and even
VoIP quality statistics. Then use expert analysis to isolate the problem cause
and find potential resolutions.
Ensure Successful Application Deployments
align=left>NETFLOW AND APPLICATION ANALYSISIn large-scale
deployments of new applications like unified communications, IT staff shouldn't
neglect performing predeployment assessments or baseline analysis. Use
GigaStor’s trending reports to define normal network and application behavior
and establish baselines. Configure alarms to alert IT staff when performance
deviates from the norm.
When you're alerted to an application problem, investigate deeper
with GigaStor's in-depth application analysis and experts.
With GigaStor:
* Isolate transaction
issues
* Identify latency concerns
*
Track server delay
* Monitor application-specific
errors
Learn more about ensuring smooth application roll outs and
performance.
Troubleshoot 10 Gb Networks
We take unparalleled efforts to ensure your ability to capture
and process network data on gigabit or 10 Gb networks. We design and manufacture
our Gen2 capture card to be the fastest available, supporting full-duplex
gigabit and 10 Gb. In order to minimize network overhead, data processing and
analysis occurs at the GigaStor probe rather than by pulling captures over the
network for processing at the console.
* NETFLOW STATISTICS VIEWOptimized for 10 Gb
Analysis
* 16-lane PCI Express card
* Filtering and statistics performed on the Gen 2 card
*
Data and analysis processed on the GigaStor probe
Investigate Security and Compliance Issues
GigaStor plays a critical role in data mining, network
investigations, and data-retention compliance. The GigaStor network recorder
provides you with a separately stored, unaltered view of network traffic that
you can play back to investigate connections and transactions exactly as they
happened.
GigaStor not only shows you communications that occurred, but it
can reconstruct the mined data–providing hard evidence such as web pages
(including images),VoIP conversations, documents, and e-mails.
Extending the Power of NetFlow
Using NetFlow in New Environments
Use GigaStor
to produce NetFlow from any device in any network environment, including servers
and non-NetFlow capable routers and switches. GigaStor captures and converts
packets into NetFlow data flows, pushing them to reporting applications.
Moving beyond NetFlow Statistics
NetFlow
cannot solve network or application problems. When metrics indicate a problem,
use GigaStor to conduct detailed back-in-time investigations. By capturing and
saving every packet, GigaStor provides a detailed packet-level view of the
problem occurrence. Replaying network activity eliminates problem recreation and
provides efficient resolution.
Form Factors
GigaStor is available in a variety of form factors to meet your
organization's retrospective network analysis needs.
Model
Storage Capacity
GigaStor
Standard 2 TB-16 TB
GigaStor
Expandable 32 TB-96 TB
GigaStor
SAS
32 TB-576 TB
GigaStor
SAN
Offload to SAN
GigaStor
Portable 2 TB - 4 TB
Portable Unit
Technical Specifications
All GigaStor Appliances includes a local Observer Expert console
and can connect to any Observer Expert, Suite, or RMON/HCRMON compliant console
on the network.
To ensure wire-speed, line-rate capture, each system includes the
Network Instruments-designed, full-duplex Gen2 capture card with multiple-link
support.
Each unit also includes a 250 GB internal hard disk, all required
cabling, a dual-processor system with Windows XP Pro 64-bit Edition, a
10/100/1000 Ethernet management port, and a DVD+/- RW DL.
Each unit supports multiple topologies: Gigabit, 10 Gb, Fibre
Channel, WAN, or OC.
Model
Storage Capacity
GigaStor 2 TB 4 TB 8-16 TB
2-16 TB
GigaStor Expandable
32-96 TB
GigaStor SAS
16-576 TB using Serial Attached Storage
GigaStor SAN
Offload to SAN
GigaStor Portable
2 TB - 4 TB Portable Unit |
