EMC Isilon ZenPack by Zenoss

Zenoss Inc. announced its Dell/EMC Isilon 1.0 ZenPack.

Isilon NAS platform
“There is no question that IT organizations must modernize and automate their infrastructure and transform their data center operations into the cloud environment – one that is fully automated and self-service,” said Marcus MacNeill, VP, product management, Zenoss. “This new ZenPack provides storage for the Isilon scale-out NAS platform. Isilon continues to grow in popularity for high-volume storage for backup and archiving.“

Isilon storage has found a foothold in the NAS space due to its targeted design to resolve expanding data growth and management challenges associated with the increased demand for scalable storage.

Zenoss and EMC
The company works with EMC to enable enterprises to optimize existing IT and legacy investments to free up resources for next-generation IT that will transform the business. As noted in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage, Isilon continues to grow enterprise adoption from traditional file system support to additional use cases, including video surveillance, big data analytics, backup and active archive.

EMC Isilon ZenPack
Utilizing the OneFS OS, Isilon unifies cluster nodes into a single shared resource. The Isilon ZenPack supports Isilon hardware utilizing the OneFS 8.x releases and provides in-depth monitoring of the NAS performance, utilization, status, metrics and events for array components including:

• Clusters

• IFS file systems

• Snapshots

• Nodes

• Chassis

• Disks

• Sensors (Fans, temperature sensors, power sensors)