Tek-Tools’ award winning solution, The Profiler Suite, delivers end-to-end visibility and actionable insight on the entire infrastructure with modules for monitoring and managing physical and virtual IT components – servers, storage, backup, and applications – from a single solution. Tek-Tools has distinguished itself in an explosive market, where its nearest competitors are either complex and expensive, or are point solutions that deliver a fraction of the functionality. With its broad focus, Profiler presents unique views of the same data to address every level within an IT organization. Profiler enables organizations to reclaim operational time, mitigate risk relative to data protection and policy compliance, and optimize the performance and utilization of their storage and backup infrastructures. With its roots dating back to 2001, Profiler has grown from a traditional server-based SRM application into an IT framework that has been recognized by Gartner as a Challenger in the SRM Magic Quadrant. Profiler\'s modular architecture allows an organization to implement only what is needed today to address an immediate pain-point and is designed for easy expansion across the enterprise. From the smallest IT shops to the Fortune 50, customers have come to rely on Profiler as the window into their IT infrastructures, the single pane-of-glass view that had been elusive for far too long. Profiler customers range from organizations within the private and public sectors and industries such as banking and finance, consulting and accounting, health care, insurance, manufacturing, utilities, telecommunications, education, transportation, internet service providers, and real estate. With support for over 50 devices and applications across small, medium, and global IT environments, Profiler has become a proven solution within many diverse IT shops. The Profiler Suite consists of: Virtual Profiler, Storage Profiler, Backup Profiler, App Profiler, and Server Profiler.

1. Profiler
With clarity comes control

2. Realities in storage
Infrastructure Sprawl: Storage,
Servers, Backup, Applications
Managing storage growth
is the #1 pain point
Staff and financial resources
are taxed to the max
Multiple vendor tools and
virtualization add complexity

3. Tek-Tools Profiler Suite
Profiler delivers on its vision of supporting
physical & virtual infrastructures
• Agent-less Storage and Virtualization
• Enhanced End-to-End Data Path Mapping
• Single pane reporting for capacity, backup
status, trending/forecasting, and alerting
• Generic threshold, alerting, and
automations
• Policy-based custom rules enables file &
directory searches
Profiler is a modular set of solutions that reports, monitors, notifies, and
delivers business metric reporting from a single web based view

4. Profiler for NetApp
• Data Collection via ONTAPI
– Previously via SNMP
• Unified Storage Views
– SAN and NAS in a single view
• Tight alignment with NetApp technologies
– Storage Virtualization, Snap technologies, Multistore
• Integrated Reporting & Monitoring
• Policy based Alert Management
• Optimised Data Classification/SRM

5. Profiler’s NetApp Main Console
Profiler provides a high-level view of your NetApp storage array
showing storage, performance and trending information

6. True Aggregate Usage
Profiler’s reports present true usage of NetApp Aggregates
and expose Storage Virtualization risks

7. LUN Masking
Profiler’s LUN Masking Report provides an end-to-end view
of the SAN storage allocated to hosts, both FC and iSCSI.

8. SnapMirror and SnapVault Trends
Profiler provides NetApp Data Protection reports for
Snapmirrors and SnapVaults

9. Profiler for VMware
Virtual Infrastructure
• ESX hosts, Virtual Machines, and Storage
– Capacity planning
• Utilization trending and forecasting
• “What if” load simulators
– Performance
• Real-time and historical analysis
– Availability
• Thresholding and alerting

10. Profiler’s VMware Main Console
Profiler provides a high-level view of your virtualized
environment showing performance, storage allocation, usage,
and wasted space.

11. Profiler’s Virtual Machine Monitor
View an inventory of all created VMs and their locations,
health, and status.

12. Profiler for VMware Dashboard
Get a high-level view of the entire virtualized infrastructure, and
drill down as needed

13. Identify virtualization candidates from
physical servers monitored by Profiler

14. Profiler Array Console
• Array Details
– Allocation
– Availability
– Asset
Information
– Capacity
– Performance
• Links to Servers
– Applications

15. Profiler Storage Summary
Storage Summary shows the complete story
across multiple arrays:
– Raw storage total, spare, used and free
– RAID storage available, used and free
– Free LUNs (LUNs not associated to a Server)

16. End-to-End Mapping
Map your storage from the Server to the LUN, with drill
down links to the components of the path.

17. Datastore – LUN – Storage Array Logical Mapping

18. App Profiler
FEATURES BENEFITS
• SQL, Exchange, Oracle • Provide a single console for reporting across
• Storage reporting all key business-critical applications
– Total • Alleviate the need for custom reporting tools
– Forecast for each application
– Table space • Provide DBAs a tool to report on storage
– Attachments growth and allocation, from database to table
– User usage space levels
– Store history • Identify largest email users and report on
– File types types and size of stored attachments
• Performance monitoring • Eliminate the risk of running out of disk space
• Events and notification and down-time
• DNS monitoring • DNS uptime/downtime reporting allows
• Windows event logs administrators to accurately represent SLAs
• Notify administrators of key events in the IT
environment from the server to the individual
level

19. App Profiler’s Database Reporting
App Profiler provides a quick, consolidated view into the
performance and usage of mission-critical applications.

20. Profiler delivers visibility across
physical and virtual infrastructures for:
• Increased Efficiencies
• IT Resource Optimization
• Strategic Planning
• Risk Mitigation
• Policy & SLA Compliance