EMC NAS Isilon

2019

Dell EMC Isilon H5600

On May 21, 2019 it became known that Dell Technologies announced the Isilon H5600 NAS platform. The provided Isilon model provides high scalability, the improved integration with a cloud and security for support of the most exacting file workloads.

The hybrid horizontally scalable Isilon H5600 NAS platform working based on the operating room sistemyisilon with OneFS 8.2 offers ideal balance of capacity and performance.

Dell EMC Isilon F810 Scale-Out NAS

On February 14, 2019 the Dell EMC company submitted the scalable Dell EMC Isilon F810 Scale-Out NAS platform allowing to provide the high performance and efficiency and also transparency, controllability and mobility of unstructured data in DPC and in a cloud.

Growth of volumes of unstructured data demands from the companies of the approaches and opportunities allowing to use these assets within digital transformation. For the solution of these tasks Dell EMC provided addition to the flagman storage system of Isilon All-Flash and also the software of Dell EMC ClarityNow. These solutions, according to the developer, will allow the organizations to browse and move unstructured data and to manage them – as locally, and in a cloud.

In Dell EMC noted that the modern enterprises aim to accelerate obtaining business results in such areas as analytics of data, artificial intelligence and design automation (EDA) using powerful applications of the next generation for work with unstructured data. These workloads often require extremely high performance a flash array. At the same time many organizations are forced to limit strictly capital costs of equipment procurements and to reduce the related operating costs of IT. At the same time in these conditions the organizations need also to manage effectively growing volumes of unstructured data. It will give them the chance more productively and more effectively to disclose the value of the corporate data.

According to the statement of the producer, the array of Isilon F810 has performance up to 250,000 input-output operations per second (IOPS) and capacity of 15 GB / with on chassis 4U. The array of Isilon F810 is scaled up to 144 nodes in a uniform cluster and reaches indicators in 9 million input-output operations per second and 540 GB / from propuskony capability. Thanks to the built-in data compression with coefficient to 3:1, Isilon F810 allows the organizations to lower requirements to "crude" capacity a flash array. A system provides to 33% more effective uses of unit of crude capacity of DWH, than storage system about a flash memory. At the corresponding increase in density of storage of F810 provides effective capacity to 2.2 PB on the chassis in body 4U and up to 79.6 PB on a cluster from 144 nodes. The solution of data storage with a high density can help to reduce the required area in a data processing center and the expenses connected with it, including the occupied space in DPC, costs for energy consumption and cooling.

According to the producer, the platform of storage Isilon F810 is easily integrated into the existing Isilon clusters. Integration is performed without interruption of work and without need to perform data migration manually.

The array works based on the operating room sistemyisilon with OneFS. Isilon F810, as well as other node types of the Isilon system it is possible to integrate in a uniform cluster of Isilon. Thanks to support of broad set of protocols, the organizations can consolidate data, eliminate inefficient storages, simplify management, support a broad spectrum of applications and workloads on one platform of storage. It also allows to use powerful technologies of analytics to disclose values of the capital of data. For resource optimization of storage and a bigger cost reduction the Isilon platform supports the automated multilevel data storage (tiring) and integration into cloud environments with a possibility of the choice of service providers of public and private cloud storages, emphasized in Dell EMC.

As noted in Dell EMC, a guarantee of reduction of amount of data for a flash arrays of Isilon F810 of Storage system Isilon fall under the loyalty program of Dell EMC Future-Proof Loyalty Program which guarantees comfortable conditions of cooperation for clients and protection of investments at future changes of technologies.

2017: Isilon on architecture of Infinity

On May 16, 2017 provided to Dell EMC generation of the scalable Isilon NAS systems based on architecture of "Infinity".

As a part of the Isilon systems there will be a flash arrays (All-Flash), the hybrid and archive configurations intended for exacting file applications in a broad spectrum of the industries including media and entertainments, medicobiological sciences and financial services.

Isilon, (2017)

The architecture of Infinity provides performance levels and scalabilities of the Isilon platform, performance increased to six times in IOPS, to 11 times - capacity and to two times – capacity in comparison with the operating platforms of Isilon.

The modular architecture promotes accumulation of performance or capacity in process of growth of requirements. Isilon is equipped with the Isilon OneFS operating system offering high efficiency of storage, reliable protection and ample opportunities of data management. The generation of the Isilon systems can be integrated with the existing clusters of Isilon or to unroll as other cluster.

The Isilon platforms can be ordered in May, 2017, deliveries begin in June, 2017.

2016: Dell EMC Isilon All-Flash

On October 31, 2016 the Dell EMC company announced the system from a product family of Dell EMC Isilon combining high performance a flash technology and the horizontally scalable NAS platform. The Isilon All-Flash system is developed to help the organizations to upgrade the infrastructure and to implement the potential of digital business.

Representation of Isilon All-Flash, (2016)

The storage system of Isilon All-Flash is developed for a broad spectrum of applications and unstructured loadings which require the highest performance of NAS for accomplishment of such tasks as streaming of video 4K, genomic sequencing, design automation and analytics in the mode, close to real time, with a possibility of the choice of solutions for analytics of Big Data of different vendors, including Hortonworks, Cloudera, Pivotal, IBM and Splunk. The Isilon All-Flash system can be unrolled in a cluster or to integrate with the operating Isilon clusters for performance improvement during the work with corporate "lakes of data" and decrease in total cost of ownership (TCO) due to multilevel data storage on a flash arrays and high-capacity disk arrays with HDD SATA. This solution Dell EMC equipped with the OneFS operating system provides to the enterprises the key tools necessary for upgrade of IT: high performance, scalability for work with data bulks, means of protecting of data and security of the corporate level.

Main properties of a system

• The flash version of the horizontally scalable Isilon NAS system implements the high density of storage and performance for the tasks of new generation connected with unstructured data.
• This solution working running widely known Isilon OneFS OS provides multidisciplinary access, data protection of a corporate class and information security and, thereby, changes rules of the game in the market a flash systems.
• One Isilon Scale-Out NAS All-Flash system in body 4U includes a cluster from four Isilon nodes with the maximum capacity of 924 TB, with an efficiency of 250 thousand input-output operations per second (IOPS) and the aggregated capacity of 15 Gbps.
• A system provides use to 80% of resources, further decrease in need for storage capacity to 30% and more due to deduplication of data of Isilon SmartDedupe.
• The uniform cluster of horizontally scalable NAS Isilon can support up to 100 systems: up to only 400 nodes with a cumulative capacity of 92.4 PB, with a performance of 25 million IOPS and aggregated capacity 1.5 Tbit / page. All this is with uniform volume and the single file system.
• A system is effectively integrated with the existing Isilon clusters, it is possible to organize an automatic tiring between Isilon flash nodes, the Isilon SAS HDD and Isilon SATA HDD nodes.

The company declared availability of the Isilon All-Flash NAS system to the preorder. Deliveries are expected in 2017.

2015

EMC: Isilon HD400

Isilon HD400 is the solution for support of infrastructure of data storage of Data Lake Foundation.

On March 5, 2015 EMC announced release of Isilon HD400 as the solution intended for support of Data Lake Foundation.

Isilon HD400, 2015

Isilon HD400 will help to scale storage systems on the basis of the solution Data Lake Foundation up to 50 PBytes within one cluster. This platform is suitable for customers with the need for high-capacity powerful scalable storage system - from 2 to 50 PBytes.

Such capacity is optimal for deep archiving, disaster recovery and solution deployment of Data Lake Foundation of high capacity. A system is characterized by the ultrahigh density of storage (3.2 PBytes on a rack), will help to cut down twice operating costs, including costs for the electric power, cooling and the space occupied by data processing centers.

Characteristics of the device

Representation of Isilon HD400, 2015

EMC Isilon NAS Data Lake

On November 18, 2015 EMC Corporation announced release of scalable solutions of EMC Isilon NAS Data Lake which part products were, the functions and opportunities allowing corporations it is easy to scale the data warehouses with connection of remote platforms and public clouds.

Among products — Isilon SD Edge generation of solutions Isilon OneFS and Isilon Cloud Pools. They expand possibilities of Data Lake due to support of unstructured data as DPC generally and on the periphery, for example, in remote representations and in cloud archives. Data Lake developed especially for increase in potential, the solutions EMC Isilon help to consolidate multiple loadings and allow users to get access and to analyze the data collected from different sources.

Interaction in EMC Isilon NAS Data Lake (2015)

For November 18, 2015 transformation of the enterprises happens due to existence of three top trends. First, the enterprises become Bol global, use the distributed labor resources. Secondly, volumes of unstructured data grow with a huge speed, doubling each two years that leads to growth of needs for effective management of data and extraction of values from them. At last, the hybrid cloud becomes the main choice of customers as it allows to use most effectively and profitable data processing centers.

Representation of EMC Isilon NAS Data Lake (2015)

The strategy of EMC Data Lake 2.0 and announcements are directed to the solution of these problems. Early implementations of Data Lake were limited to work only with those resources which were in the main data processing center. Now there was an opportunity to store and derive benefit from that information which exists not only in the central DPC, but also that that is stored on remote platforms or was loaded into cloud storages.

== 2011

EMC Isilon IQ 108NL

EMC announced in May, 2011 emergence the biggest in the world of the single file system, having provided a new hardware platform of EMC Isilon IQ 108NL. Due to use of disks of a corporate class of Hitachi Ultrastar with a capacity of 3 Tbyte in nodes 4U high it is scaled up to 15 PBytes providing the maximum scalability for problems of storage of Big Data. Today EMC also submitted the new application software for Isilon SmartLock data protection implementing reliable protection of Big Data. It guarantees their security and integrity during all lifecycle: from creation and before signing up in archive. The combination of the new product Isilon NL-Series to recently announced OneFS 6.5 operating system and the equipment Isilon S200 and X200 provides to corporate customers the solution for creation of the comprehensive platform of storage of Big Data which simplifies management and provides a maximum of efficiency and flexibility of IT.

New Isilon IQ 108NL uses the Isilon OneFS operating system and the hard drives Hitachi Ultrastar with a capacity of 3 Tbyte, being scaled up to 15 PBytes in one file system and one volume at the expense of what the optimum efficiency of storage at the maximum investment payback is provided. The studio of creation of special effects (VFX) Zoic which is mentioned by the award Emmy uses IQ 108NL as a part of the complex platform of storage Isilon for creation of the most difficult visual effects now.

The new application software of data storage of Isilon SmartLock is completely integrated with OneFS for reliable protection of files therefore if at the file blocking is set, then it cannot be moved or changed. Using SmartLock each blocked file receives the unique, giving-in to check signature which confirms its integrity and the status in the file system. SmartLock in combination with Isilon IQ 108NL provides the highest level of protection of archives of Big Data which are stored in the nearline mode.

EMC Isilon S200

Isilon S200 — is characterized with a performance over 1.4 million op / sec. of NFS and the aggregated capacity more than 85 gigabytes per second (GB/sec.), and all this for the single file system. S200 is the ideal solution for acceleration of access to large volumes of data in problems of design and modeling, a financial analysis, work with multimedia and high-performance computing. S200 system is equipped with Intel Xeon processors 5600 Quad Core, the drives STEC SSD and Hitachi SAS, network interfaces 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) and a global coherent cache with a capacity of 13.8 terabyte, providing maximum capacity during the work with large volumes of data.

EMC announced in July, 2011 that according to results of independent testing which was held by Standard Performance Evaluation (SPEC) corporation, the horizontally scalable Isilon S200 NAS system is the leader of the industry. As the last results of the SPEC tests in which performance of network file system and the general response time is measured testify, EMS of Isilon S200 set a new record of performance, having more than twice been ahead of the closest competitor.

Main results of tests:

• SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3: 1.1 million NFS IOPS – are 75% better than result of the closest competitor.
• SPECsfs2008_cifs: 1.6 million CIFS IOPS – are 126% better than result of the closest competitor.

Isilon S200 satisfies to requirements of work with large volumes of data, providing high rates of transaction input-output at service of several applications and supporting different protocols in the single file system and volume. Isilon saves from need to make the choice between performance and capacity, allowing customers quickly, effectively and safely to use the saved-up business information.

Recently provided Isilon S200 system provides over 1.6 million CIFS IOPS and 1.1 million NFS IOPS at the aggregated capacity more than 85 Gbytes / with, using at the same time the single file system. This platform – the ideal solution for acceleration of access to large volumes of these applications for design and modeling, processing of multimedia, financial analysis and file services of a corporate class.

The horizontally scalable architecture of OneFS provides this linear scaling thanks to which customers can increase performance and capacity, adding a new node to a cluster, not being limited to a two-nodal configuration of a cluster. EMC Isilon provided results of S200 tests during the work in several typical configurations. These tests show stable linear scalability when building a configuration of a cluster from seven and to 14, 28, 56 and 140 nodes. Using the scalability, best in the industry, and high transaction performance of Isilon S200, users can easily and with the minimum costs to scale a system according to requirements of the applications of a corporate class using large volumes of data.

In SPECsfs2008 test the horizontally scalable 140-nodal EMC Isilon S200 NAS system on the basis of dual-processor nodes with quad-core Intel Xeon processors, the 2.5-inch hard drives Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) with rotating speed 10,000 RPM was used (RPM) and high-performance solid-state disks (SSD). For consolidation of nodes the QLogic 9120 DDR IB switch, and for generation of loading of SPECsfs – the Dell R610 servers connected using the Brocade MLXe32 10GbE router was taken in a cluster. 'In process of growth of the applications which are intensively working from data and implementation of model of cloud computing the companies need scaling of the environment of storage, effective in terms of costs, and management to it more and more. The combination of solutions of Brocade for creation of factory of network to the horizontally scalable EMC/Isilon S200 NAS system helps to ensure continuous functioning and scaling for the most exacting DPCs'.

EMC Isilon X200

Isilon X200 — has the aggregated capacity more than 30 Gbps and the utilization coefficient leading in the industry – not less than 80%. X200 system is a balance of profitability, capacity and capacity for processing of flows of large volumes of data in the environment of cloud computing, in problems of biological researches, services of the Internet and the large-scale virtualized environments. She provides a wide choice of options of a configuration and allows the companies to arrange easily the solution under unique requirements and specific loading, reducing capital costs and increasing an investment payback.

2013: Support of drives 4TB volume

On February 25, 2013 EMC announced expansion of opportunities of the most advanced scalable network systems of data storage EMC Isilon — now the NAS systems will be supported by drives 4TB volume. The last updates of Isilon X-Series and NL-Series expand advantages of horizontally scalable solutions of NAS to archived data storage even more: usability, high scaling of capacity and performance, automated management and independent failure handling. New opportunities allow to scale one volume EMC Isilon to the 20th petabyte. As a result storage capacity in each rack increases by 33%, and energy consumption decreases by 30%.

The enterprises from the most different industries look for more effective and economic methods of the organization and administration of the big and quickly growing information repositories. Rapid growth of file data increased the need for the high-scalable and effective solutions for archived data storage corresponding to business politicians, the legislation and requirements of regulators in a public sector, health care, media and show business. These factors have paramount value in the different industries therefore the need for effective and economic disk solutions for archiving never before was so high.

All information placed in EMC Isilon archive is controlled through operating environment of OneFS which optimizes and protects an information stream in the organization. Customers get these advantages, without sacrificing performance of applications or special data protection required for long-term storage of archives when using applications of archiving of EMC or other vendors.

EMC Isilon also provides higher fault tolerance when scaling, accelerates recovery process in case of refusal of drives, reliably protects data and has the performance indicators, best in the industry. The powerful scalable cluster architecture of Isilon allows to recover active and contemporary records in case of refusal of the drive much quicker, than the traditional systems – it is less, than in one day while the majority of the traditional systems will need for this purpose several days or even weeks. The system of data protection EMC Isilon N+4 on the basis of distribution at the level of the FlexProtect™ files helps customers to reduce risk of data loss and to increase the general availability even with a growth of a cluster. As data archives become more, the importance of these factors in proportion grows, and EMC Isilon is easily scaled from terabytes to petabytes.

The possibility of support of drives up to 4 of Tb provides high capacity of storage on the same square, providing at the same time utilization coefficient, standard for Isilon, 80% are higher. For example, storage capacity in one rack is 1440 Tb for NL400 nodes now – 360 Tbytes more on the same square. With drives 4 of Tb customers need less nodes to achieve the same indicators of the general capacity. With drives on 4 Tb only seven NL400 nodes instead of ten NL400 nodes with drives on 3 Tb will be required to reach the same basic capacity in 1 petabyte.

The solution Isilon of EMC is the file system of storage capable to store from tens Terabyte to tens Petabyte of data. It represents a cluster of nodes which at the same time contain disk capacity, computing powers (CPU, memory) and input/output ports. Optimal work can be reached due to combination of nodes of a different configuration in one system. Such DWH perfectly is suitable for storage and processing of a photo of high resolution, video, medical pictures, results of geological developments. Besides, a system provides data access under protocols the Internet (http/https), so, can process requests of external users directly. For example, it can provide access to all media content of the portal according to direct references, having unloaded thus the Web server. In addition to a web, data are available under standard file protocols of CIFS/NFS/FTP. There are also pleasant additions, in particular, with iSCSI. It is the block protocol, necessary if, for example, the customer company purchased the Isilon system, but does not want to implement additional block DWH - and the server needs to provide a part of data at the level of blocks, for example, under the system of virtualization. Besides, a system is integrated with the main services of authentication: at the appeal to DWH additional authorization is not necessary. Today users got used that, using Windows account, it is possible to work in any system: Isilon gives such opportunity too.

2012: Possibility of expansion to 15 PBytes

For November, 2012 the EMC Isilon system extends up to 15 PBytes and above in the single file system and uniform volume, providing thus the maximum scaling for storage of Big Data. It is especially relevant for the companies making and extending content of high resolution and showing therefore more and more strict requirements to the capacity and system performance of storage and also availability of huge volumes of video content.

The cluster architecture of EMC Isilon allows to increase seamlessly from the minimum, three-nodal configuration a system as required almost indefinitely. At the same time every time the capacity, performance and the number of connections will increase with guarantee. This feature of the EMC Isilon system gives the chance at the initial stage of implementation to avoid considerable expenses on start of new information services.

Advantage of EMC Isilon is return to simple architecture of NAS instead of difficult and expensive SAN architecture which requires creation of an optical network and purchase of licenses of clustered file system (for example, StorNex).

2011: Possibility of the choice of configurations

For April, 2011 the hardware platform of Isilon allows customers to select from the whole range of configurations, including systems with solid state drives (SSD) with the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial ATA (SATA) interfaces and to combine them in uniform globally coherent cache. At the same time quad-core processors of the next generation optimize a ratio "the price – performance" for acceleration of access to Big Data.

The Isilon OneFS 6.5 operating system uses these hardware innovations and implements advanced functionality of a corporate class for accomplishment of business and critical transactions in the data processing centers (DPC), and the software of Isilon SyncIQ 3.0 considerably improves directive terms of recovery (Recovery Point Objectives, RPO), providing the protection of large volumes of data which does not have analogs.