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Tips & Tricks - Configuration
Requirements
EMC² - ISILON
SCALE-OUT NAS
Carlos Galeano
Carlos.galeanocantillo@emc.com
MidTier Storage Division
Regional 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
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
clustershare
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
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:
X200
X400
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
Innovations
Snapshot 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
Isilon storage systems start with a cluster which is made up of the OneFS operating system, at least 3 nodes, up to 144, and an InfiniBand internal network which has 1 InfiniBand switch and optionally a 2nd one for redundancy. InfiniBand is used because it is extremely fast with very little latency. Speeds currently range from 20 – 40 Gigabit.
With Isilon Scale-out NAS, you can have unimaginable room for your Big Data storage needs—over 15 petabytes of capacity per cluster in a single filesystem and volume.You can also scale both capacity and performance almost instantly to meet your specific business need—all without any additional IT burden and with Isilon, performance and capacity scale linearly.Our platform offerings include three flexible product lines tailored for specific business needs. You can choose the combination of three different Platform Nodes that best suits your storage needs:S-SERIESThe EMC Isilon S-Series combines unmatched IOPS performance with high efficiency and an ultra-low overhead scale-out NAS package. With SSD technology for file-system metadata and file-based storage workflows, the S-Series delivers additional performance gains for metadata intensive operations while improving overall latency.The answer for ultra-performance primary storage, purpose built for high IOPS-intensive random access file-based applications. X-SERIESThe EMC Isilon X-Series, our most flexible and comprehensive storage product line, strikes the right balance between large capacity and high-performance storage. The highly versatile X-Series is an ideal solution for high-concurrent and sequential throughput applications. NL-SERIESThe NL-Series is designed to provide cost-effective, large capacity storage. To achieve this, the NL-Series combines high density and efficiency, with massive capacity capabilities. The result is a highly economical scale-out storage solution at an extremely attractive price per TB of capacity and low overall TCO.
EMC Isilon offers a full Suite of Enterprise Infrastructure Software. On this first of two slides, we highlight four software innovations and one hardware innovation that can additionally expand the quality of Isilon Data Protection.On the left you’ll see a list of key Data Protection requirements, and on the right, the corresponding EMC Isilon Software Solution - or in the case of the Backup Accelerator, the Isilon hardware solution -for each Data Protection requirement.
EMC Isilon offers a full Suite of Enterprise Infrastructure Software. On this second of two slides, we highlight four software innovations that can additionally expand the quality of Isilon Data Management capabilities.On the left you’ll see a list of key Data Management requirements, and on the right, the corresponding EMC Isilon Software Solution for each Data Management requirement.
So with file-based, unstructured data representing the fastest-growing component of today’s enterprise data centers, EMC Isilon Storage offers an industry leading solution for simple, scalable, efficient, and available Scale-Out NAS.With Isilon, you can: Reduce the complexity of scale-out storage with a single volumeEasily manage performance and growth requirements Meet increased demand on IT resources Note to Presenter: If continuing on to the Mavericks announcement, please transition to the next section with this text:We’d like to share with you the steps we are taking to equip enterprises to manage a growing broader range of large-scale enterprise applications and infrastructure environments. What follows next is detail about our May 21st pre-announcement regarding EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS innovation designed to address the challenges and opportunities that arise with the new world of Big Data and Enterprise IT.
