# What Performance Advisor is

Performance Advisor is a feature of Operations Manager that provides you with a single location to view comprehensive performance information about storage systems and vFiler units.

You can use the performance information to achieve the following objectives:

- Monitor storage systems or vFiler units for usage levels and optimal functioning by accessing to historical and real-time data for all monitored devices recognized by the DataFabric Manager server

- Identify potential blockages in the data infrastructure

- Perform short-term trend analysis for the data infrastructure

The Performance Advisor user interface runs in NetApp Management Console.