Dell EMC Isilon F800 All-Flash NAS Storage
Unstructured data storage made simple

Overview:

• Supports up to 250,000 IOPS and 15 GB/s bandwidth per chassis
• Stores 96 TB to 924 TB capacity per chassis
• Provides 60 SSDs per chassis
• Cuts space needs up to 75% with dense system design
• Offers robust data protection and security options
• Protects investment with the Future-Proof Program (support agreement required)

Accelerate your most demanding file workloads with the extreme performance and massive scalability of Dell EMC Isilon F800 all-flash scale-out NAS storage. Get up to 250,000 IOPS and 15 GB/s bandwidth per chassis. With a choice of SSD drive capacities, all-flash storage ranges from 96 TB to 924 TB per chassis. Isilon F800 is ideal for your most demanding high-performance computing (HPC), media and entertainment 4K streaming, and interactive analytics workloads.

Benefit from the efficiency, flexibility, and resiliency of Isilon, the industry’s #1 scale-out NAS platform. Isilon F800 is all-flash NAS that scales easily and keeps management simple, no matter how large your data environment becomes. For best use of your resources, automated storage tiering lets you tier less frequently accessed data to other Isilon systems or to the cloud.

Dell EMC Isilon All-Flash Platforms

Dell EMC Isilon all-flash storage platforms, powered by the Isilon OneFS operating system, provide a powerful yet simple scale-out storage architecture to speed access to massive amounts of unstructured data, while dramatically reducing cost and complexity. With a highly dense design that contains 4 nodes within a single 4U chassis, Isilon all-flash delivers extreme performance and efficiency for your most demanding unstructured data applications and workloads. Isilon all-flash storage is available in 2 product lines:

• Dell EMC Isilon F800: Provides massive performance and capacity and delivers up to 250,000 IOPS and 15 GB/sec aggregate throughput in a single chassis configuration and up to 15.75M IOPS and 945 GB/s of aggregate throughput in a 252 node5 cluster. Each chassis houses 60 SSDs with a capacity choice of 1.6 TB, 3.2 TB, 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB or 15.36 TB per drive. This allows you to scale raw storage capacity1 from 96 TB to 924 TB in a single 4U chassis and up to 58 PB5 in a single cluster.
• Dell EMC Isilon F810: Along with massive performance and capacity, the F810 provides inline data compression to deliver extreme efficiency. The F810 delivers up to 250,000 IOPS and 15 GB/sec aggregate throughput in a single chassis configuration and up to 9M IOPS and 540 GB/s of aggregate throughput in a single 144 node cluster2. Each Isilon F810 houses 60 SSDs with a capacity choice of 3.84 TB, 7.68 TB or 15.36 TB per drive. This allows you to scale raw storage capacity from 230 TB to 924 TB in a 4U chassis and up to 33 PB in a 144 node cluster. Depending on your specific dataset, Isilon F810 inline data compression delivers up to a 3:1 reduction in storage requirements to increase the effective capacity of your solution while lowering costs.

Efficiency: Isilon scale-out storage delivers up to 80 percent storage utilization versus about 50 percent for traditional platforms. Isilon SmartDedupe data deduplication software enhances storage efficiency to reduce your physical storage requirements by up to 35 percent. Isilon’s policy-based, automated tiering options allow you to optimize storage resources and further lower costs. In addition to these advantages that apply to all Isilon platforms, Isilon F810 all-flash offers inline data compression to further reduce data storage infrastructure requirements, increase density and lower costs.

Flexibility: Powered by the OneFS operating system, Isilon all-flash storage supports all major protocols and data access methods including NFS, SMB, HDFS, HTTP, and FTP. This means that you can support a wide range of unstructured data applications and workloads on a single storage platform.

Data protection: Isilon all-flash storage is highly resilient and offers N+1 through N+4 redundancy. With Isilon you may also choose from a variety of efficient and proven enterprise data backup and disaster recovery options.

Security: Isilon all-flash offers a broad range of robust security options including FIPS 140-2 level 2 self-encrypting drives, role-based access control (RBAC), secure access zones, SEC 17a-4 compliant WORM data immutability, and file system auditing support.

Essentials

• Simple storage and data management designed for ease of use
• Massive scalability of capacity and performance
• Unmatched storage efficiency, deduplication and compression to reduce costs
• Choice of All-Flash, Hybrid or Archive nodes
• Automated tiered storage to optimize resources
• Seamless cloud integration to lower costs
• Multiprotocol support for operational flexibility
• Resilient data protection for a highly available environment
• Robust security and compliance options
• Unlock your data capital with inplace data analytics
  

Features:

Isilon OneFS Operating System Powers Scale-Out Storage Solutions

The Isilon OneFS operating system provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out storage solutions. Through the fusion of OneFS, state-of-the-art engineering, and industry-standard enterprise hardware, Isilon provides a highly scalable, high–performance modular storage architecture that can grow with your business. OneFS can help you accelerate processes and workflows, while scaling easily to handle massive growth and providing the highest levels of data protection available. This is all provided in a storage solution designed for unmatched ease of use.

Isilon scale-out storage solutions, powered by the OneFS operating system, provide users with a broad range of options to meet their specific storage needs.

Scale-Out Data Lake

As the volume and sources of data have expanded dramatically, traditional techniques to store and analyze information are too expensive and too slow to handle the massive data volumes modern enterprises produce and manage. With Isilon, you can gain a highly flexible and efficient storage infrastructure that expands your data lake from the edge to the core to the cloud. You can consolidate data, simplify management and eliminate inefficient storage silos while supporting a wide range of traditional and nextgeneration workloads and applications that previously used a number of different types of storage.

Unmatched Agility and Performance

Change is inevitable. That’s why every Isilon system is built to rapidly and simply adapt. OneFS allows a storage system to grow symmetrically or independently as more space or processing power is required. This allows you to scale your storage easily up to 252 nodes as your business needs dictate. With Isilon, you can scale performance from 250,000 file operations per second (IOPS) with a single chassis up to 15.8 million IOPS with a single cluster. You can also scale throughput from 15 gigabytes per second (GB/s) with a single chassis up to 945 GB/s of aggregate read throughput in a single Isilon cluster.

Efficiency and Cost Savings

Orchestrated by OneFS, all components in an Isilon cluster work in concert to create a unified pool of highly efficient storage—with a storage utilization rate of up to 80 percent. With Isilon SmartDedupe data deduplication, you can further reduce your data storage requirements by up to 35 percent in environments with redundant data across multiple sources. The Isilon F810 all-flash platform also delivers up to 3:1 data compression to dramatically increase the effective storage capacity and density of your Isilon solution. The unmatched efficiency of Isilon storage systems means that less physical storage and space are required to house the same amount of data—reducing both initial capital outlay and ongoing costs. And, with the Isilon AutoBalance function, you can quickly and easily add nodes without downtime, manual data migration, or application logic reconfiguration, saving precious IT resources. And because Isilon storage is so easy to manage, it requires fewer IT resources for storage administration than traditional storage systems, which further reduces overall operating costs. Using CloudPools software you can lower costs by tiering cold or frozen data to a choice of public or private cloud options.

Simple Interoperability

With Isilon, you can streamline your storage infrastructure by consolidating large-scale unstructured data assets thus eliminating silos of storage. Isilon includes integrated support for a wide range of industry-standard protocols, including Internet Protocols IPv4, and IPv6, NFS, SMB, HTTP, FTP and HDFS. As a result, you can simplify workflows, accelerate business analytics projects, support cloud infrastructure initiatives, unlock data capital and get more value from your enterprise applications and data.

Enterprise Data Protection and Management Software

Massive stores of data present unique management challenges including disaster recovery, quota management and offsite replication. Isilon data protection and management software provides you with powerful tools that help you protect your data assets, control costs and optimize the storage resources and system performance of your big data environment.

Software	Feature	Description
Dell EMC Isilon InsightIQ	Performance management	Optimize your Isilon solution with innovative performance monitoring and reporting
Dell EMC Isilon Smartpools	Resource management	Implement a highly efficient, automated tiered storage strategy to optimize storage performance and efficiency
Dell EMC ClarityNow	Data management	Locate, access and manage data in seconds, no matter where it resides – across file and object storage, on-prem or in the cloud. Gain a holistic view across heterogeneous storage systems with a single pane of glass, effectively breaking down data trapped in siloes
Dell EMC Isilon SmartQuotas	Data management	Assign and manage quotas that seamlessly partition and thin provision storage into easily managed segments at the cluster, directory, subdirectory, user, and group levels
Dell EMC Isilon SmartConnect	Data access	Enable client connection load balancing and the dynamic NFS failover and failback of client connections across storage nodes to optimize the use of cluster resources
Dell EMC Isilon SnapshotIQ	Data protection	Protect data efficiently and reliably with secure, nearinstantaneous snapshots, while incurring little to no performance overhead, and speed the recovery of critical data with near-immediate on-demand snapshot restores
Dell EMC Isilon CloudPools	Resource management	Seamless tiering of cold or frozen data to public or private cloud providers
Dell EMC Isilon SmartDedupe	Data management	Increase efficiency and reduce storage capacity requirements by up to 35 percent with deduplication of redundant data across multiple sources
Dell EMC Isilon SYNCIQ	Data replication	Replicate and distribute large mission-critical data sets to multiple shared storage systems in multiple sites for reliable disaster recovery capability, and use push-button failover and failback simplicity to increase data availability
Dell EMC Isilon SmartSmartLock	Data retention	Protect your critical data against accidental, premature, or malicious alteration or deletion with our softwarebased approach to WORM, and meet compliance and governance needs, such as SEC 17a-4 requirements
Aspera for Isilon	Content delivery	Benefit from high-performance wide area file and content delivery

Technical Specifications:

Dell EMC Isilon F800 All-Flash Specifications
	1.6 TB SSD	3.2 TB SSD	3.84 TB SSD	7.68 TB SSD	15.36 TB SSD
Chassis Capacity (Raw)	96 TB	192 TB	230 TB	460 TB	924 TB
SSD Drives (2.5") Per Chassis	60	60	60	60	60
Self-Encrypting Drive (SED SSD) Option	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Operating System	Isilon OneFS 8.1 or later except for self-encrypting drive options which require Isilon OneFS 8.1.0.1 or later
Number of Nodes Per Chassis	4	4	4	4	4
CPU Type (Per Node)	Intel Xeon Processor E5-2697A v4
ECC Memory (Per Node)	256 GB
Front-End Networking (Per Node)	2 x 10GbE (SFP+) or 2 x 40GbE (QSFP+)
Infrastructure Networking (Per Node)	2 InfiniBand connections supporting QDR links or 2 x 40GbE (QSFP+)
Typical Power Consumption @ 240V (Per Chassis)	1300 Watts (@25°C)
Maximum Power Consumption @ 240V (Per Chassis)	1800 Watts
Typical Thermal Rating	4,440 BTU/hr
Cluster Attributes
Number of Chassis	1 to 63
Number of Nobes	4 to 252
Raw Cluster Capacity	96 TB to 58 PB
Effective Cluster Capacity	77 TB to 46.5 PB
Rack Units	4 to 252
Product Attributes
Scale-Out Architecture	Distributed, fully symmetric clustered architecture that combines modular storage with Isilon intelligent software
Modular Design	4 self-contained nodes include server, software, and SSDs in a 4U rack-mountable chassis; integrates easily into existing Isilon clusters
Operating System	Eighth generation of Isilon OneFS distributed file system: creates a cluster with a single file system and single global namespace; fully journaled, fully distributed, globally coherent write/read cache
High Availability	No single point of failure; self-healing design protects against disk or node failure; includes back-end intra-cluster failover
Scalability	Isilon F800 running OneFS 8.2 or later scales from 4 to 252 nodes in a single cluster with up to 58 PB capacity (raw).
Data Protection	Isilon FlexProtect file-level striping with support for N+1 through N+4 and mirroring data protection schemes
Data Replication	Isilon SyncIQ fast and flexible file-based asynchronous replication
Data Retention	Isilon SmartLock policy-based retention and protection against accidental deletion
Security	File system audit capability to improve security and control of your storage infrastructure and address regulatory compliance requirements
Efficiency	Isilon SmartDedupe data deduplication option, which can reduce storage requirements by up to 35 percent
Automated Storage Tiering	Policy-based automated tiering options, including Isilon SmartPools and CloudPools software, to optimize storage resources and lower costs
Network Protocol Support	NFSv3, NFSv4, NFS Kerberized sessions (UDP or TCP), SMB1 (CIFS), SMB2, SMB3, SMB3-CA, Multichannel, HTTP, FTP, NDMP, SNMP, LDAP, HDFS, ADS, NIS reads/writes
Environmental Specification
Power Supply	Isilon F800 and F810: Dual-redundant, hot-swappable 1450W power supplies with power factor correction (PFC); rated for input voltage 180 – 265 VAC (optional rack mount step-up transformer for 90-130 VAC input regions)
Operating Environment	Compliant with ASHRAE A3 data center environment guidelines
Dimensions/Weight	The following specifications apply to Isilon F800 and F810: Height: 7” (17.8 cm); Width: 17.6” (44.8 cm); Depth (front NEMA rail to rear 2.5” SSD cover ejector): 35.8” (91.0 cm); Depth (front of bezel to rear 2.5” SSD cover ejector): 37.6” (95.5 cm) Weight: 170 lbs. (77.1 kg)
Minimum Service Clearances	Front: 40” (88.9 cm), rear: 42” (106.7 cm)

	PowerScale F200	PowerScale F600	PowerScale F900	Isilon F800	Isilon F810
Use Case	Edge and small deployments	Demanding line of business and AI applications	HPC, massive Performance workloads	High performance workloads	High performance workloads
Raw node capacity	3.84 TB to 30.72 TB	15.36 TB to 122.8 TB	46 TB to 368 TB	24 TB to 230 TB	57 TB to 230 TB
ECC memory (per node)	48 GB or 96 GB	128, 192 or 384 GB	768 GB	256 GB	256 GB
Nodes per cluster	3 to 252	3 to 252	6 to 504	4 to 252	4 to 252
Raw cluster capacity	11 TB to 7.7 PB	46 TB to 30 PB	138 TB to 93 PB	96 TB to 58 PB	230 TB to 58 PB
Inline Data Reduction	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Storage Type	SSD	NVMe SSD	NVMe SSD	SSD	SSD

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Documentation:

Dell EMC Isilon Platform Datasheet (.PDF)

Dell EMC Isilon All-Flash Scale-Out Storage Datasheet (.PDF)