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Tips & Tricks - Configuration Requirements
EMC² - ISILON SCALE-OUT NAS
Carlos [email protected] Storage DivisionRegional Storage Specialist NOLA
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Isilon:An Intelligent Storage Model
One single unified system to manage
Single file system, single volume scaling from 18 TB – 15.5 PB
Highest performance, fully symmetric peer nodes
Easy to manage - No RAID, LUNS or multiple FS to manage
Easy to grow – Scale capacity in minutes
No bottlenecks, No hot spots
80% + utilization
AUTOMATED TIERING
Tape Storage
Tier 2 Active Archive Storage
Primary High Performance Tier 1 Storage
Inactive data
Active data
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AUTOMATED TIERING
Isilon: An Intelligent Storage Model
Automatic data movement– Policy-based tiering
management– Transparent reallocation– NO application changes
Optimize storage resources – Automatically migrate data to
Tier 2 to match storage resources with data requirements
– Eliminate data migration
Tape Storage
Tier 2 Storage
Primary Tier 1 Storage
Inactive data
Active data
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How to start a design:Minimum System Configuration
An EMC Isilon storage system requires:– At least three (3) nodes of the same type MINIMUM.– Two (2) Infiniband Switches in the back-end cluster
network(for redundancy).– The same version of OneFS on each node. Today, the most
updated OneFS version is OneFS 7 (a.k.a. Maverick).– For user access to the Isilon Storage System, at least one
1GBEth connection is required (two pors for redundancy). For large files and high performance access, a 10GBEth network is desirable.
– Each node of an Isilon cluster requires its respective license for the different software modules:
▪ SnapshotIQ, SyncIQ, SmartConnect, Smartlock, SmartQuotas, SmartPools, Insight IQ.
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What happens if a HW upgrade is required?
Check the # of Infiniband ports available for the back end. If needed, upgrade the switches.
The additional node (nodes) must fit the same configuration (memory & disk) and model of the existing nodes for the same tier.
All the upgrade nodes require the same software licenses as the exisiting nodes.
Verify the rack space required for the new nodes.
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Isilon Scale-Out: Arquitecture
ENTERPRISE CLASS
ISILON IQ NODES
NETWORKI/O
The power of paralelism
(Intra-cluster Infiniband)
Symmetric N-way cluster
(optional 2nd switch)
•From 3 to 144 Nodes, 18TB a 15PB•Single cluster Peer-to-peer•Distributed single File system OneFS™
•Single storage Pool/namespace•One Management Point
CPU, Cache, I/O, Disks
SMB\\cluster\share
NFS/vol/vol0/users/share
“PURE NAS”
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ISILON OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE
ISILON IQ PLATFORM NODES (3 AT LEAST)
INFINIBAND CORE NETWORK
IB back end
3 node minimum
2
1
3
Isilon Starts with a Cluster
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EMC Isilon: Type of nodes Scale-Out NAS Product Family
Linear Scaling of Performance & Capacity
Purpose-built for IOPS-intensive, random access
file-based applications
A flexible solution to accelerate high-concurrent and sequential throughput
applications
Purpose-built for cost-effective, large
capacity storage
S-Series
X-Series
NL-Series
NL-400 Nodes:-36TB-72TB-108TB
X-Nodes:X200X400
S-200 Nodes
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EMC Isilon Suite of Enterprise Infrastructure Software
Requirements Numerous and flexible
snapshots
Fast and flexible asynchronous replication
Policy based client failover with load balancing
Policy based immutability
Scalable backup to tape
InnovationsSnapshot IQ - Unlimited and flexible snapshots
SyncIQ - Fast and flexible asynchronous replication
SmartConnect - Policy based client failover with load balancing
SmartLock - Policy based immutability
Backup Accelerator - Scalable backup to tape
Data Protection
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EMC Isilon Suite of Enterprise Infrastructure Software
Requirements Policy based automated
tiering
Quota management and thin provisioning
Analytics platform to maximize performance and resource utilization
VMware integrated management features
Software Innovations
SmartPools - Policy based automated tiering
SmartQuotas - Quota management and thin provisioning
Insight IQ - Analytics platform to maximize performance and resource utilization
Isilon for Vcenter - VMware integrated management features
Data Management
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Meet increased demand on IT resources
Reduce the complexity of scale-out storage with a single volume
Easily manage performance and growth requirements
AvailableSimple Scalable
EMC Isilon No Compromise Scale-Out Storage
