What’s New in Virtana Infrastructure Observability: Expanded Integrations and Precision Metrics

Whether you’re managing core compute, storage arrays, or Fibre Channel networks, Virtana Infrastructure Observability is designed to deliver the depth and context needed to support high-stakes IT environments. This quarter’s updates expand our coverage, extend platform compatibility, and give you better ways to surface actionable telemetry across your stack.

Here’s what’s new:

• Hitachi Universal Compute Platform (UCP) Integration
• Expanded Metrics for Windows, Hitachi NAS, Pure, and Brocade
• Automated CSV Delivery for Inventory Reports

Let’s break down each capability, what it enables, and how to implement it.

Hitachi Universal Compute Platform (UCP) Integration

How This Helps You:

Many enterprise environments rely on Hitachi UCP systems for mission-critical workloads—but traditional monitoring tools either overlook these systems or rely on incomplete SNMP polling. This new integration allows Virtana users to track key hardware and system metrics from UCP environments.

Key Capabilities:

• Integration with both:
  • Chassis-based systems (Quanta DS120, DS220)
  • Edge 180 systems (HPE rebranded)
• Collect system-level metrics, including:
  • Blade health
  • Hardware status
  • Power states
• Designed to support parity with existing Cisco UCS functionality
• Initial metric coverage achieved through OS-level integrations (Windows/Linux/Solaris); additional metrics available via UCP APIs

Benefits:

• Expanded visibility into compute systems that were previously opaque
• Improved performance diagnostics for mixed-OS environments
• Simplified support for hybrid fleets running a mix of Cisco, HPE, and Hitachi

How to Get Started:

• Confirm which UCP system type your environment uses.
• Enable the relevant OS integration for the underlying blades.
• Reach out to your Virtana rep to activate full UCP data ingestion (if required).

Pro Tip: If you’re already monitoring Cisco UCS, the UCP integration will feel familiar and extend those same capabilities to your Hitachi systems.

UCP Integration User Guide

Expanded Metrics for Key Platforms

How This Helps You:

Precision observability means collecting the right metrics, not just more of them. This round of updates expands telemetry across core platforms based on real customer requests, including storage arrays, switches, and Windows hosts.

Key Capabilities:

Windows OS

• Additional performance counters requested by enterprise customers
• Supports upcoming compatibility with Windows Server 2025

Hitachi NAS (HNAS)

• Enhanced metric coverage for storage health and utilization

Pure Storage

• Updated integration for improved fidelity and performance metrics
• New Entities, Metrics and Properties for Disks in a Pure FlashArray
• New Properties for Pure FlashArray Controllers

Brocade Fibre Channel Switches

• New properties and metrics:
  • Port buffer usage
  • NPIV status
  • Remote port WWN
  • Domain ID, AG mode
  • Port speed and SFP vendor info

Benefits:

• Better diagnostics across heterogeneous environments
• Improved correlation of network/storage issues with workload performance
• Deeper insight into underutilized or unstable systems

How to Get Started:

1. Visit Settings > Integrations to review which systems are supported in your environment.
2. Enable new metrics for each platform as needed.
3. Work with Virtana support for platform-specific best practices and verification.

Note: Some Brocade metrics may require CLI access or API-based data retrieval. Details are available in updated integration docs.

Hitachi NAS Integration User Guide

Pure FlashArray Integration User Guide

Brocade SAN Integration User Guide

Automated CSV Delivery for Inventory Reports

How This Helps You:

Whether it’s chargeback, compliance, or audit, IT teams are often asked to deliver structured inventory data regularly. This feature eliminates manual effort by letting you schedule CSV report exports for delivery via email.

Key Capabilities:

• Schedule delivery of CSV exports from reports using inventory table charts
• Choose recipients and frequency via SMTP
• Ideal for reports with host capacity, asset utilization, or chargeback data

Benefits:

• Saves time on recurring reporting tasks
• Reduces manual errors from exporting and emailing manually
• Enables consistency for audits and operational reviews

How to Get Started:

• Generate your inventory chart using the standard reporting tools.
• Select the report format for delivery.
• Set the frequency and define recipients.

Bringing It All Together

This quarter’s Infrastructure Observability updates were designed to help you do three things better:

1. Support more of your environment (Hitachi UCP, Brocade, Pure, etc.)
2. See farther back and deeper down with enhanced dashboards and tags
3. Automate routine tasks like reporting and filtering

Whether you’re running storage-heavy workloads, managing multiple vendor platforms, or providing internal observability as a service, these features add control and flexibility to your daily operations.

Questions or feedback? Drop us a line; we’d love to hear how you’re using Infrastructure Observability.