Overview
Live Optics is an industry standard method of impartially documenting configuration and performance as well as observing file characteristics of data. It is a free, online software you can use to collect, visualize and share data about your IT environment and workloads, to help you make real-world IT decisions. This document provides a brief explanation of each solution on offer in the Live Optics family and assets within.
Live Optics Categories and Assets
There are five Live Optics Categories for you to choose from, each with its asset types and output.
Server & Cloud: Live inventory and performance insight of hosts and VMs regardless of platform or vendor.
The solutions provided in this category are:
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- Optical Prime
- SQL Server for Optical Prime
- Virtual Tab for Optical Prime
- Cloud Pricing for Optical Prime
- AWS
- Optical Prime
Data Protection: Insight to platform specific backup and protection cycles as well as the capacity being protected.
The solutions provided in this category are:
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- IBM TSM
- NetWorker
- PowerProtect DM
- Commvault
- Data Domain
- Avamar
- Veeam
- NetBackup
Storage: Detailed break down at the hardware appliance level of configuration and performance.
The solutions provided in this category are:
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- CLARiiON VNX
- Isilon
- Hitachi
- IBM Storewize
- HPE 3PAR
- PURE
- vSAN
- NetApp
- VMAX PMAX
- Unity
- PowerStore
- SAN Health
- XtremIO
File: Rapid characterization of storage growth, files types, and predictive potential for archive, compression, or deduplication.
The solutions provided in this category are:
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- Dossier
Workloads: Insights to machine and installation details, supported SQL-specific features, a list of databases, database size, etc. This type of understanding is beneficial to understand what databases are within which Instance and on what host the SQL Database is installed on; this is perfect for inventory taking.
The solutions provided in this category are:
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- SQL Server
This list is ever changing and always growing with new features released. We encourage you to follow this page to receive email notifications when this document is updated, and new Categories or Assets are added.
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