EMC CLARIION storage monitoring

What is an EMC Clariion NAS storage?

EMC Clariion Storage, a product of EMC², is an advanced storage appliance renowned for its role in network SAN disk arrays. This storage system adopts the X-blade architecture, which it shares with EMC²'s Celerra NAS - another significant player in the SAN product lineup. Notably, EMC² has launched the VNX Series, aiming to supersede both the Clariion and Celerra NAS product lines, thus unifying their functionalities under a single banner.

How to monitor an EMC Clariion NAS storage?

ServicePilot makes it very easy to monitor an EMC Clariion NAS storage requiring minimal configuration on the target device. A resource of the storage-emc-clariion package then needs to be added via the ServicePilot web interface.

The monitoring statistics gathered in this way include:

• For each Volume discovered
  • Read IO
  • Write IO
  • Utilization
  • Response Time, etc.
• For each Storage Processor discovered
  • Queue length
  • Utilization
  • Response Time
  • Dirty Pages, etc.

The ServicePilot Agent makes this collection by connecting to the SMI-S provider.

How to install a emc-clariion resource?

1. Use your ServicePilot OnPremise installation or a SaaS account.
2. Add a new emc-clariion resource via the web interface (/prmviews or /prmresources) or via API (/prmpackages page), the default ServicePilot agent or another agent will be provisioned automatically.

Details of the emc-clariion package are located in the /prmpackages page of the software.

Benefits

ServicePilot enables you to deliver IT services faster and more securely with automated discovery and advanced monitoring features.

By correlating the technology EMC CLARIION with APM and infrastructure monitoring, ServicePilot is able to provide a more comprehensive view of an organization's IT environment.

This allows IT teams to quickly identify and diagnose issues that may be impacting application performance, and take corrective action before end-users are affected.

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