Earlier this year Dell EMC released a suite of Isilon products designed to enable your company’s data lake journey. Together IsilonSD Edge, Isilon OneFS 8.0, and Isilon CloudPools transformed the way your organization stores and uses data by harnessing the power of the data lake. Today we are pleased to announce all three of these products have been updated and further enhanced to make your data lake even more powerful and easier to operate from edge to core to cloud.
Starting with the release of OneFS 8.0.1
OneFS 8.0.1 builds on the powerful platform provided by OneFS 8.0 released in February 2016. The intent of this newest release is to provide features important to unique customer datacenter workflows, enhance usability and manageability of OneFS clusters. In addition, OneFS 8.0.1 is the first release that takes full advantage of the non-disruptive upgrade and rollback framework introduced in OneFS 8.0.
Let’s review some of the most compelling features of this software release.
Improved Management, Monitoring, Security and Performance for Hadoop on Isilon
Expanding on the Data Lake, one of the focus areas of this new release was increasing the scope and usefulness of our integration with leading Hadoop management tools. OneFS 8.0.1 delivers support for and integration with Apache Ambari 2.4 and Ranger. A single management point now allows Ambari operators to seamlessly manage and monitor Hadoop clusters with OneFS as the HDFS storage layer. Ranger is an important security management tool for Hadoop. These Ambari and Ranger integration features benefit all customers using Hortonworks and ODP-I compliant Hadoop distributions with OneFS.
Additionally OneFS 8.0.1 adds new features including Kerberos encryption to secure and encrypt data between HDFS clients and OneFS. In addition, Datanode load balancing avoids overloading nodes and increases cluster resilience. OneFS 8.0.1 also supports the following HFDS distributions: Hortonworks HDP 2.5, Cloudera CDH 5.8.0, and IBM Open Platform (IOP) 4.1.
Introducing Scale-Out NAS with SEC Compliance and Asynchronous Replication for Disaster Recovery
With OneFS 8.0.1, Isilon becomes the first and only Scale-Out NAS vendor that offers SEC-17a4 compliance via SmartLock Compliance Mode combined with the asynchronous replication to secondary or standby clusters via SyncIQ. This powerful combination means companies that must comply with SEC-17a4 are no longer caught in a choice between compliance and data recovery – with OneFS 8.0.1 they have both!
Storage Efficiency Designed for the Healthcare Diagnostic Imaging Needs
For many years PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) applications diagnostic imaging data was stored in large “container” files for maximum storage efficiency. In recent years, the way referring physicians’ access individual diagnostic images changed and, as a result, the methods used to store diagnostic imaging files had to change as well. OneFS 8.0.1 has a new storage efficiency feature specifically designed for the Healthcare PACS archive market to provide significantly improved storage efficiency for diagnostic imaging files. Isilon customers can expect to see storage efficiency similar to OneFS’s large file storage efficiency for diagnostic imaging files when using this feature. you leverage Isilon to store your PACS application data you will want to talk with your sales representative and learn more about this new feature.
Upgrade with Confidence
OneFS 8.0, released in February 2016, provided the framework for non-disruptive upgrades for all supported upgrades going forward and the addition of release rollback. OneFS 8.0.1 is the first OneFS release that you will be able to test and validate and, if needed, rollback to the previously installed 8.0.x release. This means that you can non-disruptively upgrade to 8.0.1, without impacting users or applications! You will be able to upgrade sets of nodes or the entire cluster for your testing and validation and then, once complete, you decide to commit the upgrade or rollback to the prior release. Once committed to OneFS 8.0.1, future upgrades will be even easier and more transparent with the ability to view an estimate of how long an upgrade will take to complete and transparency of the upgrade process. The WebUI was enhanced to make upgrade management even easier than before.
Manage Performance Resources like Never Before
Even more exciting is the new Performance Resource Management framework introduced in OneFS 8.0.1. This framework is the start of a revolutionary scale-out NAS performance management system. In OneFS 8.0.1 you will be able to obtain and view statistics on the performance resources (CPU, operations, data read, data written, etc.) for OneFS jobs and services. This will allow you to identify quickly if a particular job or service may be the cause of performance issues. These statistics are available via the CLI, Platform API and can be visualized with InsightIQ 4.1. In future releases these capabilities will be expanded to clients, IP addresses, users, protocols and !
These are just some of the new features OneFS 8.0.1 has to offer. OneFS 8.0.1 improves on our support for MAC OS clients, SMB, audit, NDMP and data migrations, to name a few other areas. The white paper, Technical Overview of New and Improved Features of EMC Isilon OneFS 8.0., provides additional details on these and other new and improved features in OneFS 8.0.1
Isilon SD Edge Management Server version 1.0.1
This July EMC released a new version of IsilonSD Edge Management Server. Version 1.0.1 provides support for VMware ESX 6.0 in addition to previously supported ESX versions. This management server also enables monitoring of the IsilonSD Edge Clusters via EMC’s Secure Remote Support (ESRS) server and tools.
Isilon CloudPools Just Got Easier to Manage
OneFS 8.0.1 provides improved flexibility for CloudPools deployments in the enterprise with the introduction of proxy support. This allows administrators to specify one or more proxy servers between the Isilon cluster and your cloud provider of .
The Data Lake Journey is Just Beginning!
OneFS 8.0.1 is an important step on the data lake journey; however, you can rest assured we are not stopping here! Look forward to amazing new hardware and software features in coming releases as we build on the Performance Resource Management Framework, provide more workload specific enhancements to address our customers’ needs and deliver new levels of supportability, serviceability, scale and performance. Don’t wait, upgrade . Click here to download OneFS 8.0.1.