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    • Virtana Platform Docs
      • Migrate Guide
        • The Migrate Module
        • Preparing for Migration
          • Logging in to Virtana Platform
            • Log in with Credentials
            • Log in with SSO
          • Migrate Terminology
        • Navigating the Migrate Module UI
          • Virtana Platform Title Bar
          • Common UI Elements
          • Cloud Migration Projects Page
          • Inventory Page
          • Environment Overview Page
          • Application List Page
          • Applications Analysis Summary Page
          • Application Detail Tabs
          • Move Group List Page
          • Move Groups Analysis Summary Page
          • Custom Groups List Page
          • Custom Properties Analysis Summary Page
          • Custom Properties Detail Tabs
        • Migrate Getting Started
          • The Discovery Process
          • Collect Data from VirtualWisdom
          • Create a Project
          • Verify the Project Import
          • Create an Application
          • Calculate Application Dependencies
          • Assess Calculated Application Output
          • Modify an Application
          • Create Move Groups
          • Calculate Move Group Dependencies
          • Assess Calculated Move Group Output
          • Modify Move Groups
        • Understanding Cloud Costs Using Cost Analysis
          • Analysis Process
          • Cloud Mapping
          • Custom Pricing for Cost Analysis
          • In-cloud Costs
          • On-premises Costs
          • Network Usage Costs
        • Advanced Actions
          • Custom Properties and Groups
            • Create Custom Properties and Groups
          • Searching and Filtering in Migrate
            • Filtering Compute Instances
            • Filtering for Applications
            • Filtering for Move Groups
            • Filtering by Column Header
            • Operators Used in Search Filters
          • Excluded Resources
            • Networks Exclusions
            • Other Resource Exclusions
            • Exclude and Restore Resources in Calculations
        • Additional Resources
        • Contact Information
        • Legal
      • Optimize Guide
        • The Optimize Module
        • Preparing to Use Optimize
          • Optimize Terminology
          • Cost Categories in Optimize
            • Azure Cost Categories
            • AWS Cost Categories
          • Why Use Tags?
          • Filtering in Virtana Platform
            • Inclusion Filters
            • Exclusion Filters
            • Any vs All Filters
            • Report Filters
            • Create or Edit Report Filters
            • Filtering and Grouping Options
        • Using Reports
          • Default Reports
          • Email a Report
          • Viewing Reports
        • Using Policies
          • Working with Multiple Policies
          • Using Tags and Attributes with Policies
          • Default Policy Settings
            • Default Idle Resource Policy
            • Default Right Sizing Policy
          • Create and Assign a Policy
            • Steps: Create and Assign a Policy from Settings
            • Steps: Modify and Assign a Policy from Cost Saving Opportunities
          • View a Policy Configuration
        • Change Management in Optimize
          • Implementing Change Requests
          • Create a Change Request
          • Modifying Change Request Settings
        • Cost Saving Opportunities Reports
          • Cost Saving Dashboard
          • Cost Saving Opportunities Page
          • Idle Resources Reports
            • How Idle Resources Are Calculated
            • Idle Resources Policy Parameters
          • Right Sizing Reports
            • Right Sizing Policy Parameters
        • Bill Analysis Reports
          • Bill Analysis Page
          • Amortized, Blended, and Unblended Costs
          • Create Bill Analysis Reports
          • AWS Bill Analysis Scenarios
            • AWS Scenario 1: Create a Monthly Cost Report
          • Azure Bill Analysis Scenarios
            • Azure Scenario 1: Create a Monthly Cost Report
        • Cost vs Utilization Reports
          • Cost vs Utilization Page
          • Create Cost vs Utilization Reports
          • Default Settings for Cost vs Utilization Reports
            • AWS EC2 and RDS Default Settings
            • AWS S3 Default Settings
            • Azure Default Settings
          • Cost vs Utilization Report Settings
          • Description of AWS Cost vs Utilization Reports
            • AWS EC2 Cost
            • AWS RDS Cost
            • AWS S3 Cost
            • Related Topics
          • Description of Azure Cost vs Utilization Report
            • Azure VM Cost
        • Account Billing in Optimize
          • Implementing Account Billing
        • Additional Resources
        • Contact Information
        • Legal
      • Virtana Platform Administration Guide
        • What is Virtana Platform?
        • License Comparison
        • Preparing to Use Virtana Platform
          • Supported Browsers
          • Supported Email Clients
          • Virtana Platform Terminology
        • Logging in to Virtana Platform
          • Log in with Credentials
          • Log in with SSO
        • Using SSO
          • SSO in Virtana Platform
          • Configure Okta as SSO Provider
          • Configure SSO in Virtana Platform
        • About OAuth Credentials
          • Generate OAuth Credentials
        • White Labeling Virtana Platform
          • Domain Settings for White Labeling
            • Configure a Custom Domain
          • Themes for White Labeling
        • Configuring an AWS Integration
          • Role Requirements for an AWS Integration
          • Determine a Setup Method
          • Enable Cost Explorer
          • Create a Cost & Usage Report in AWS
          • Primary Account vs Linked Account in AWS
          • CloudFormation IAM Role Setup
            • CloudFormation Permissions
          • IAM Role Manual Setup
            • Create an Inline Policy for Cost Explorer API Access
            • Create an In-Line Policy for Cost and Usage Report Read Access
            • Create an IAM Read-Only Role Manually
            • Enter the AWS Values in Virtana Platform
          • Access Key Setup
            • GovCloud
            • Create an Inline Policy for Cost Explorer API Access
            • Create an In-Line Policy for Cost and Usage Report Read Access
            • Create a Read-only User
              • Create a User with Standard Permissions
              • Create a User with Minimal Cost Permissions
              • Create a User with Management Account Permissions
          • Enter the AWS Values in Virtana Platform
          • Where to Gather AWS Account Information
          • Create Linked Accounts
          • Configure the CloudWatch Agent
            • Linux CLI Installation
            • Windows CLI Installation
            • Verify the Memory Metric is Collected in AWS
            • Verify the Memory Metric is Collected in Optimize
          • Filtering AWS Integrations by Tags
          • Locate Optimize IDs
        • Configuring an Azure Integration
          • Preparing for an Azure Integration Setup
            • Install the Azure CLI
            • Enable OS Guest Diagnostic Metrics in Azure
              • Enable OS Guest Diagnostic Metrics on an Existing VM
              • Enable OS Guest Diagnostic Metrics on a New VM
            • Set the Currency Option in Azure to USD
          • Azure CLI Setup
          • Azure Portal Setup
        • Configuring Change Management Integrations
          • ServiceNow Integration Overview
          • Jira Integration Overview
          • Configure ServiceNow for Virtana Platform Integration
          • Configure Virtana Platform for ServiceNow Integration
          • Configure Virtana Platform for Jira Integration
        • Virtana Platform Getting Started
          • User Management in Virtana Platform
            • Inviting Users to an Organization
            • User Roles
          • Managing Your Profile and User Settings
          • Organizations in Virtana Platform
          • License Usage Reports
            • View License Usage Reports
          • Navigating Virtana Platform
            • Virtana Platform Title Bar
            • Common UI Elements
        • Additional Resources
        • Contact Information
        • Legal
      • Reseller and MSP Guide
        • Implementing Account Billing
          • Account Billing in Optimize
          • Account Billing for Resellers and MSPs
          • Customers Page
        • Organizations in Reseller or MSP Accounts
    • VirtualWisdom Docs
      • VirtualWisdom 7.0 User Guide
        • VirtualWisdom Platform Architecture
        • VirtualWisdom User Interface and Navigation
          • User Preferences
        • Notifications
        • Data and Entities
          • Entity Overview
            • Entity Types by Category
              • Application
              • Compute
              • Conversations
              • Network
              • Storage
            • ITL Examples
              • FC Conversations
              • Discovering FC Conversation Entities
              • NFS/SMB Conversation
              • Discovering NFS or SMB Conversation Entities
          • Entity Creation
          • Entity Management
            • Auto-Defined Entity Management
            • User-Defined Entity Management
              • Entity Matching
                • Entity Matching Example
              • Entity Import
            • Entity Management Best Practices
          • Applications and Tiering
            • Application Entities
              • Application Entity Creation
              • Manual Application Entity Creation
              • Application Entity Discovery
                • Resolving Application Overlap with Conflict Management
            • Application Tiering
            • Create Tiers
          • VirtualWisdom Metrics
          • Metric Data Aggregation
          • Data Persistence
        • Infrastructure Monitoring Concepts
          • Health, Utilization, Capacity, and Performance
          • Using a Dashboard to Identify Application Infrastructure Issues
        • Inventory
          • Inventory List View
          • Application Inventory Page
          • Tier Inventory View
          • Other Entity Types Inventory View
        • Topology
          • Selecting a Topology View and Entity
          • Saving Your Topology View
          • Excluding (Filtering) Nodes
          • Entity Grouping
          • Using the Topology Map Controls
          • Understanding Entity Status
          • Viewing Entity Data
          • Topology Use Cases
        • Reports
          • Report Page
          • Report Templates
          • Chart Types
            • Basic Chart Types
              • Inventory Chart Types
            • Top N Charts
            • SLA Status Charts
            • Special Charts
          • Using Reports
            • Using Report Variables
            • Zoom and Fetch and Set Report Time
            • Report Callouts
            • Exporting a Chart or a Report
            • Sharing a Report Template
            • NPIV Indicator Message
            • Errors in Reports
          • Creating Reports
            • Report Filtering
            • Creating Report Variables
            • Results Sets
          • Report Snapshots
            • Scheduling Snapshot Cleanup
          • Event Integration
            • Enabling Event Polling
            • Viewing Events
            • Disabling (Stopping) Event Polling
          • Standard Services Reports
        • Dashboards
          • Visibility Dashboards
            • Executive Dashboard
            • Application Dashboard
          • Admin Dashboards
            • Storage Admin Dashboards
            • Compute Admin Dashboard
            • Operations (NOC) Dashboard
        • Analytics
          • Analytics Home Page
          • Problem Resolution and Avoidance Analytics
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
          • Workload Infrastructure Balancing Analytics
            • VM Coordinator
            • Storage Port Balancer
            • Workload Right Sizer
            • Queue Solver
            • Migration Analysis
              • Adding Custom Pricing for Migration
            • Workload Analysis
          • Predictive Capacity Management Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • VM Deployment Advisor
            • Capacity Auditor
          • Application Service Assurance Analytics
            • Seasonal Trend
            • Balance Finder
          • Saved Analytics
          • Analytics Output
            • Deleting Analytics Output
        • Alarms and Cases
          • Alarm Rule Templates
            • Standard Alarm Rule Templates
            • Single Metric Alarms
            • Viewing Your Configured Alarms
            • Configuring an Alarm Rule Template
          • Cases
            • Open Case Page
            • Archived Cases
              • Archived Case Page
          • Investigations
        • Infrastructure Assessment Workflow
          • Starting from Topology
          • Starting From Alarms
          • Starting From Analytics
          • Starting From Dashboards
        • Contact Information
        • Legal
      • VirtualWisdom 7.0 Administrator Guide
        • Installation and Configuration
          • Appliance Configuration
            • Network Setup and Utilities
              • Configure Multiple NICs
              • VirtualWisdom, Virtual Edition
              • Utilities
            • Licensing
              • Base Licenses
              • Wisdom Pack Licenses
              • Evaluation Licenses
              • License Types
              • Uploading a License
              • License Notifications
              • Expiring Licenses
              • License Reports
            • Software Upgrade
              • Installing an Experimental Bundle
            • Certificate Management
          • Performance Probe Inventory
            • Viewing Probe Licenses
            • ProbeFCs
            • ProbeNAS
            • Additional Options from the New Hardware Probe Screens
              • Rebooting the Probe
              • Updating the Probe
              • Downloading All Probe Logs
              • Downloading Individual Probe Logs
            • Hardware Diagnostics
          • Integrations
            • Viewing Integration Licenses
            • License Reports
            • Cisco SAN Integration
              • Configuring an integration for SNMP Discovery
              • Cisco SAN Integration Alias and Zone-Based Topology Matrix
              • Cisco SAN Telemetry Streaming
            • Brocade SAN Integration
              • Configuring a Brocade SAN Integration for BNA SMI-S Discovery
              • Configuring a Brocade SAN Integration for SNMP-SSH Discovery
              • Configuring a Brocade SAN Integration for SANnav Discovery
              • Brocade SAN Integration Alias and Zone-Based Topology Matrix
              • Adding Switches to the SNMP Sources List
              • Migrating from Brocade BNA to SNMP-SSH Discovery
              • Migrating from Brocade BNA to SANnav-SNMP Discovery
              • Modifying Entity Types for Brocade Switches
              • Content of Integrations Pages
              • Content of SNMP Sources Pages
            • VMware vSphere Integration
              • Configuring VMware vSphere Integration
              • SSL Certificate Handling
              • Configuring for vApp Data Collection
              • VMware vSphere Considerations
            • Microsoft Hyper-V Integration
              • Configuring Microsoft Hyper-V Integration
            • IBM PowerVM Integration
              • Configuring IBM PowerVM Integration
            • Operating System Integration
              • Configure Operating System Instances
              • Subscribe to OS Instances
              • SSL Certificate Handling
              • Import File Format
            • Dell EMC PowerFlex Integration
              • Configuring Dell EMC PowerFlex Integration
              • SSL Certificate Handling
            • ServiceNow ITSM Integration
              • Configuring a ServiceNow Instance
                • Adding a Proxy Server
              • VirtualWisdom Incidents in ServiceNow
            • AppDynamics APM Integration
              • Configuring AppDynamics APM Integration
            • Dynatrace APM Integration
              • Configuring Dynatrace APM Integration
            • NetFlow Integration
              • Flow Collector
              • Discovered Flow Sources
              • Network Services
          • Virtana Platform Connectivity
        • Remote Access
          • Configuring RemoteWisdom
          • Disabling SSH
        • User Management
          • LDAP Settings
            • Configure LDAP Server Settings
          • User Roles and Privileges
          • User Account Management
            • View Users by Roles
            • Create a User
            • Edit, Deactivate, or Delete a User
            • User Groups
            • User Group Creation, Editing, and Deletion
          • Password Policy
        • Entity Creation
          • Entity Overview
          • Entity Types by Category
            • Application
            • Compute
            • Conversations
            • Network
            • Storage
          • Entity Matching
            • Entity Matching Example
          • Entity Import
            • Entity Hierarchy
            • Entity Type Names
            • Intermediary Entities
            • Methods of Creating Entities
            • JSON Entity Import File Format
              • Importing Device Aliases
              • HBA Card and Host Entities
                • Storage I/O Module, Storage Controller, and Storage Array Entities
                • Application Entities
            • CSV Entity Import File Format
            • Importing an Entity File
            • Import File Validation
        • Service Management
          • Download All Services Logs
          • Download Services Audit Log Files
          • Download Database
          • Change the Log Level on a Service
          • Generate a Memory or JMX Dump
          • Overriding Entity Types
          • Set Service Properties
        • Administering Your VirtualWisdom Portal
          • Login Banner
          • Integration Health Check
          • System Health Notifications
          • Performing Backups and Restores
          • Outbound Mail (SMTP)
          • API Token Management
            • Displaying Token Information
          • SNMP Traps
            • Set SNMP Trap Settings
            • Download SNMP MIB Files
            • Syslogs
            • Proxy Servers
            • Maintenance Windows
              • Edit a Maintenance Window
              • Delete a Maintenance Window
        • Contact Information
        • Legal
      • VirtualWisdom Virtual Edition Setup Guide 7.0
        • Preparing to Install VirtualWisdom Virtual Edition
          • Configuration Limits
          • Supported Browsers
          • Required Resources
        • Setup and Operation
          • Deploying the Virtual Edition OVA
          • Configuring VirtualWisdom Virtual Edition
            • Configuring Network Settings from VMware vCenter
            • Configuring Network Settings from VMware OVF Tool
            • Configuring Network Settings from the VirtualWisdom UI
            • Completing the Configuration Checklist
              • Licensing
              • Required Credentials
              • Configure Software Integrations
              • Configure the LDAP Server
              • Configure Users
            • Exporting a Certificate
              • Example: Exporting a Certificate from a Chrome Browser
          • Shutting Down the VirtualWisdom Distributed Virtual Edition VM
        • Contact Information
        • Legal
      • VirtualWisdom Integration User Guides
        • Infinidat InfiniBox Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • 7.4 License Validation
              • Per Device Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • Dell EMC Isilon Integration
          • Overview
            • Isilon Conversations
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Isilon Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
              • SSL Certificate Handling
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
          • Isilon Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
            • Capacity Auditor
          • Alarms
          • Reports
            • Advanced Report on Isilon Conversations
              • Example of Isilon Advanced Report
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collection Works
            • Understanding Polling and Metric Collection with Isilon
            • Isilon Metrics List
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Get the Most Out of VirtualWisdom
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • Kubernetes Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Device Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • Kernel-Based VM (KVM) Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Configuration Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • Linux Operating System Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Configuration Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • NetApp Storage Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Configuration Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
            • Capacity Auditor
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • Cisco Nexus Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Device Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
            • Capacity Auditor
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • Dell EMC PowerMax (VMAX) Integration
          • Overview
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
              • Discovery with Multiple Arrays per Unisphere Host
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
              • SSL Certificate Handling
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Viewing the Collection Status
          • Viewing the Unisphere Version
          • Topologies
            • Additional Relationships
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
            • Capacity Auditor
          • Alarms
          • Reports
            • Metrics for PowerMax Predefined Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collection Works
            • Understanding Polling and Metric Collection
            • Metrics List
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Get the Most Out of VirtualWisdom
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • Dell EMC PowerStore Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Device Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • Pure FlashArray Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Pure1 Requirements and Configuration
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Configuration Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
            • Capacity Auditor
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • Solaris Operating System Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Configuration Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • IBM SVC Integration
          • Overview
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Modifying the Polling Frequency
          • SVC Topologies
            • Additional Relationships
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collection Works
            • Understanding Polling and Metric Collection
            • Metrics List
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Get the Most Out of VirtualWisdom
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • Cisco UCS Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Device Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
          • Topologies
        • Dell EMC Unity Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Device Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • Hitachi VSP Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Device Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
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          • Contact Information
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          • Overview
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            • Configuring Windows Hosts for Monitoring
              • Create a Domain User Service Account in Active Directory
              • Set Permissions for a User with Non-Administrator Privileges
              • Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Configuration
              • Windows Remote Management (WinRM) Configuration
              • Configure the Windows Firewall
              • Optional: Create the HTTPS (WinRM) Certificate
              • Optional: Download (Export) the HTTPS Certificate
              • Instructions Specific to Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Configuration Licensing
                • License Evaluation
              • Per Device Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
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            • Capacity Forecast
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            • Trend Matcher
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
        • Dell EMC XtremIO Integration
          • Overview
          • Interoperability
          • Installation Prerequisites
          • Licensing
          • Activate the Integration License
          • Install the Integration
          • Discovering Entities in Your Environment
            • How Discovery Works
            • Entity Types
            • Creating a New Discovery Instance
            • License Validation
              • Per Device Licensing
                • License Evaluation
            • Editing Existing Discovery Instances
            • Credential Sets
            • Creating and Assigning Credential Sets
            • Editing or Deleting Credential Sets
            • Using a CSV File for Configuration
          • Topologies
          • Analytics
            • Capacity Forecast
            • Event Advisor
            • Trend Matcher
          • Alarms
          • Reports
          • Metric Collection
            • How Metric Collections Works
          • Additional VirtualWisdom Resources
          • Contact Information
          • Legal
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      • WorkloadWisdom 6.10.0 User Guide
        • Introducing Storage Testing and WorkloadWisdom
          • Storage Testing
          • Storage Life Cycle
          • WorkloadWisdom
        • Deploying WorkloadWisdom
          • Design Limits and Support
          • Get Started with WorkloadWisdom
            • Logging In
            • Changing the Administrator’s User ID and Password
            • Using the Home Page
            • Using the Title Bar and Accessing Documentation
        • Setting Up WorkloadWisdom
          • Generators
            • Adding a Workload Generator
            • Managing Workload Generators
            • Fibre Channel Workload Generators: Targets and LUNs
          • Test Beds
            • Using New Test Beds
            • Creating a New Test Bed
            • Importing Test Beds
          • Preconditioning
          • Post-Test Cleanup
            • Using Post-Test Cleanup
            • Additional SMB Options
            • Additional S3 Options
          • Test Hosts (Beta)
        • Analyzing Workloads
          • Workload Data Importer
            • Create Production Storage Environment
            • Importing a Workload Data File
            • Editing Analysis Parameters
            • Specifying Workloads to Create
            • Visualizing the Production Workload Data Acquired from the Workload Data Importer
          • Analyzed Workload Data
            • Locating Production Workload Data
            • Visualizing the Production Workload Data
          • Resources for Analyze Workloads
            • Using Workload Analysis Policies
            • Using Production Storage Environments
        • Running Workload Tests
          • How to Read This Chapter
          • Workload Tests Concepts
          • Creating a New Workload Test
            • Common Workload Concepts and Settings
            • Access Patterns (Constant Workloads Only)
            • Advanced Load Profile (Temporal Workloads Only)
            • Writes and Reads
            • Data Parameters
            • Data Verification
            • Pre-Test
            • Load Properties
            • Tracing Parameters
            • Runtime Parameters
          • Starting a Workload Test
            • Start Parameters
          • Load Properties, Test Bed Behaviors, and Best Practices
          • File Protocol Workloads Details
            • Workload Design and Behaviors
            • Common to All File Protocol Workloads
            • NFS Specifics
            • SMB Specifics
          • Object Protocol Workloads
            • S3 Workload
            • Object Storage Workload (will become obsolete)
            • Object Storage System Settings
          • Block Protocol SCSI Workloads
            • Workload Design and Behaviors
            • Constant Workloads
            • Hotspot Workloads
            • Temporal Workloads
          • Block Protocol FC-NVMe Workloads
            • Constant Workloads
          • VDI Workloads
            • VDI Bootstorm under NFSv3
            • VDI Runtime FC & iSCSI Workload
          • Composite Workloads
            • New Composite Workload
            • Add Workload
            • Pre-tests
            • Test Bed
            • Start Composite Workload
            • Modifying Composite Workloads
          • Replay Workloads
          • Workload Test Run Results Dashboard Page
            • Statistics Engine Overview
            • Results Dashboard
            • Test Progress
            • Command Mix
            • KPI Charts
            • Errors
            • All Charts
            • Test Files
          • Workload Suites
            • New Workload Suite
            • Select Workloads
            • Conditions & Actions
            • Running Workload Suites
          • Iteration Suites
            • Create a New Iteration Suite
            • Select a Workload
            • Define Iteration Parameters
            • Step Input for Single-value Iteration Parameters
            • Multiplier Input for Single-value Iteration Parameters
            • Select Statistics for Iteration Results
            • Define Runtime Parameters
            • Run Iteration Suite
            • Iteration Explorer
            • Iteration Analyst
            • Iteration Results
          • Scheduled Jobs
            • New Scheduled Job
            • Scheduled Jobs List
          • Resources for Run Workload Tests
            • Workload Models
            • Conditions
            • Actions
        • View Test Results
          • Completed Workload Tests and Completed Suites
          • Reports
            • Create Reports
          • Resources for View Test Results
            • Report Templates
        • Using System Management
          • WorkloadWisdom System Management
            • Usage
            • CPU Utilization
            • Firmware Upgrade
            • Upgrade Requirements
            • Upgrade Workloads (BETA)
            • Tools
            • Backup/Restore
            • Authentication
            • Users
            • User Groups
            • Logs
            • System Logs
        • Automating, Integrating, and Using APIs
          • WorkloadWisdom and Your Environment
        • Example Workload Descriptions
          • File Workload Examples
            • Database OLTP
            • Fileserver
            • Photo/Image Server
            • Video Streaming
            • Linux Server
            • Windows Server
            • Webserver
          • Block Workload Examples
            • File Server
            • MicrosoftExchange 2003-2013
            • Microsoft SQL Server
            • Splunk
            • Oracle
        • Example Workload Data Import Format
        • Supported Analysis Policies
        • Contact Information
        • WorkloadWisdom Copyright and Trademarks
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      This section explains the need for storage infrastructure testing, and introduces the concept of WorkloadWisdom.

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