Overview:
It’s Not Just Data, It’s Your Business
EMC® Isilon® scale-out storage solutions are designed for enterprises that want to
manage their data, not their storage. Our storage systems are powerful yet simple
to install, manage, and scale to virtually any size. And, unlike traditional enterprise
storage, Isilon solutions stay simple no matter how much storage capacity is added,
how much performance is required, or how business needs change in the future.
We’re challenging enterprises to think differently about their storage, because when
they do, they’ll recognize there’s a better, simpler way—with Isilon.
Expand It...Simply
With EMC Isilon scale-out network-attached storage (NAS), you can have massive
room for growth—with up to 50 petabytes (PB) of capacity per cluster. Go ahead.
Take on more projects, perform more in-depth research, and serve up more data. You
can scale both capacity and performance in about a minute to meet your specific
business needs—all without any additional IT burden.
Accelerate It...Simply
EMC Isilon storage provides you with the tools to dramatically increase workflow
productivity and maximize the value of your enterprise applications and Big Data
assets—allowing you to accelerate your business through faster time to money
and new revenue opportunities.
Protect It...Simply
You don’t entrust your most valuable assets to just anyone. EMC Isilon storage
solutions provide the highest levels of reliability, availability, and serviceability
in the industry. For fast and efficient data backup and recovery, you can schedule
snapshots as frequently as needed to meet your specific recovery-point objectives.
For reliable disaster recovery protection, our storage solutions provide extremely
fast data replication, along with push-button failover and failback simplicity, to
further increase the availability of your data for mission-critical applications.
Secure It...Simply
Meeting compliance and governance requirements is essential for most organizations
today. To address these needs, Isilon provides robust security options, including file
system auditing and Data at Rest Encryption (DARE) with self-encrypting drives
(SEDs). We offer write once, read many (WORM) data protection to prevent accidental
or malicious alteration or deletion and help you meet regulatory requirements—
including the stringent SEC 17a-4 rule. With Isilon, you can also leverage role-based
access control (RBAC) options and, if needed, create isolated storage pools for specific
departments within your organization. Isilon also offers Security and Technical
Implementation Guide (STIG) hardening, CAC/PIV Smartcard authentication, and FIPS
OpenSSL support for Federal government agencies and financial services businesses.
Bring Big Data analytics and storage consolidation to your enterprise with EMC Isilon. EMC Isilon is the first and only scale-out NAS platform with native integration of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
When you use Hadoop with EMC Isilon network-attached storage, there is no need for data ingestion. Run Big Data analytics in place -- you won’t have to move data to a dedicated Hadoop infrastructure. You’ll speed data analysis and cut costs.
Choose from preconfigured EMC Isilon solutions for Hadoop or configure your own:
- 250 TB: 4 Isilon X410 nodes
- 500 TB: 7 Isilon X410 nodes
- 1 PB: 14 Isilon X410 nodes
Essentials
- Simple storage management
designed for ease of use
- Massive scalability of capacity
and performance
- Unmatched efficiency to
reduce costs
- Automated tiered storage to
optimize resources
- Multiprotocol support to
maximize operational flexibility
- Resilient data protection for a
highly available environment
- Robust security and compliance
options
Key Features:
- Works with any industry-standard Apache Hadoop distribution including Pivotal HD, Cloudera CDH, and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP)
- Saves money and speeds time to insight with in-place analytics
- Installs, manages, and scales easily
- Protects with optional data replication, snapshots, data encryption, file system auditing, WORM data protection, and role-based access control.
Scale-Out Storage Solutions:
Emc Isilon Onefs Operating System Powers Scale-out Storage Solutions
The EMC 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, EMC 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.
EMC 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 Foundation
As the volume and sources of data have expanded dramatically, traditional techniques
to store and analyze information have proven to be too expensive and too slow to
handle the massive data volumes modern enterprises produce and manage. With
Isilon, you can streamline your storage infrastructure by consolidating large-scale file
and unstructured data assets, eliminating silos of storage while providing the
foundation for a scale-out data lake that supports traditional and next generation
applications and workloads.
Unmatched Agility And Performance
Change is inevitable. That’s why every EMC 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 as your business needs dictate. With Isilon, you can scale capacity to 50 PB and
performance up to 3.75 million file operations per second, with over 200 gigabytes per
second (GB/s) of aggregate throughput—all from a single file system.
To further accelerate performance, Isilon solutions incorporate innovative features like
a scale-out flash tier that can provide over 700 TB of flash cache in a single cluster
along with support for Microsoft SMB 3.0 Multi-Channel.
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 over 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 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
EMC 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.
Simple Interoperability
With Isilon, you can streamline your storage infrastructure by consolidating largescale
file and unstructured data assets, eliminating silos of storage. EMC Isilon scaleout
NAS includes integrated support for a wide range of industry-standard protocols,
including Internet Protocols IPv4, andIPv6, NFS, SMB, HTTP, FTP, OpenStack Swiftbased
Object access for your cloud initiatives and native Hadoop Distributed File
System (HDFS). As a result, you can simplify workflows, accelerate business analytics
projects, support cloud infrastructure initiatives, and get more value from your
enterprise applications and data.
EMC Isilon solutions readily integrate with your VMware® environment and incorporate
VMware VAAI and VASA APIs to increase virtualization performance and simplify the
management of your virtualized IT environment. These levels of interoperability help
you leverage your large data assets more flexibly with a broad range of applications
and workloads, and across a diverse IT infrastructure environment.
Enterprise Data Protection And Management Software:
Massive stores of data present unique management challenges, including disaster
recovery, quota management, and offsite replication. EMC 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.
| Name |
Category |
Description |
| EMC Isilon InsightIQ™ |
Performance management |
Maximize the performance of
your Isilon scale-out storage
system with innovative
performance monitoring and
reporting tools |
| EMC Isilon Smartpools® |
Resource management |
Implement a highly efficient,
automated tiered storage
strategy to optimize storage
performance and efficiency |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 ondemand
snapshot restores |
| EMC Isilon For Vcenter |
Data management |
Manage Isilon functions from VMware vCenter® |
| 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 |
| 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 pushbutton
failover and failback
simplicity to increase the
availability of mission-critical
data |
| EMC Isilon Smartlock® |
Data retention |
Protect your critical data
against accidental, premature,
or malicious alteration or
deletion with our softwarebased
approach to WORM, and
meet stringent 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 |
EMC Isilon Hardware Platform:
EMC Isilon offers highly flexible scale-out storage solutions with precisely the
right storage on a “grow-as-you-go” basis, eliminating the need for forecasting
or overprovisioning. EMC Isilon hardware platforms are built on the innovative
Isilon scale-out storage architecture—designed for simplicity, value, outstanding
performance, and unmatched reliability. Our platform offerings include flexible
product lines that can be combined in a single file system and volume, providing
application consolidation tailored for your specific business needs.
EMC Isilon S-series Nodes
The EMC Isilon S-Series answers the need for high–performance primary storage,
purpose built for high-transactional and IOPS-intensive applications. The 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.
| Current Products |
S210 |
| Cluster Capacity* |
16.2 TB to 4.15 PB |
| Density* |
7.2 TB, 14.4 TB, 21.6 TB, or 28.8 TB per node |
*based on non-SSD configuration
Use case examples
- Digital media: broadcast, real-time streaming, rendering, and post-production
- Electronic Design Automation: Design, simulation, verification, and analysis of
electronic and mechanical systems, design for manufacturability
- Life Sciences: DNA and RNA sequencing, genomics, and large-scale microscopy
environments
“With Isilon, we’ve been able to grow a single file system to
nearly a petabyte in less than a year while still maintaining the
data throughput necessary to power our workflow and advance
our research.”
Matthew Trunnell
Manager of Research Computing, Broad Institute
EMC Isilon X-series Nodes
The 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-throughput
and high-concurrency applications. With SSD technology for file system metadata
and file-based storage workflows, the EMC Isilon X-Series significantly accelerates
namespace-intensive operations. To meet rigorous data security and compliance
requirements, Isilon also offers Data at Rest Encryption (DARE) with self-encrypting
drive (SED) options with the X-Series platform.
| Current Products |
X200, X210, X410 |
| Cluster Capacity* |
18 TB to 20.7 PB |
| Density* |
X200: 12 TB, 24 TB, or 36 TB per node
X210: 12 TB, 24 TB, 36 TB or 48 TB per node
X410: 36 TB, 72 TB, 108 TB, or 144 TB per node |
*Based on non-SSD configuration
Use case examples
- Business analytics: Hadoop workflows
- Large-scale home directories: Windows®, Linux, and UNIX® data environments
- Healthcare: PACS medical imaging
- Digital media: broadcast, post-production, and digital intermediate (DI)
- Internet/Web 2.0: online video, audio, and image serving; Web analytics
- Electronic design automation: design team collaboration, design libraries, tool
scripts, and design implementation databases
“Despite the fact that we have nearly one petabyte of data, the
EMC Isilon OneFS operating system is so easy to manage, we
don’t need a dedicated storage administrator. Aside from the cost
savings, we’re able to free up our IT people to focus on other
initiatives, such as our virtualization infrastructure.”
John Lowell Wofford
Director of IT Services, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Columbia University
EMC Isilon Nl-series Nodes
The EMC Isilon NL-Series is designed to provide cost-effective, highly scalable
nearline 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 a low overall TCO.
Isilon also offers data at rest encryption (DARE) with self-encrypting drive (SED)
options with the NL-Series to meet rigorous data security and compliance
requirements.
| Current Products |
NL400, NL410 |
| Cluster Capacity |
108 TB to 30.2 PB |
| Density |
36 TB, 72 TB, 108 TB, 144 or 210 TB
per node |
Use case examples
- File archives: for economical storage and rapid disk-based access to reference
data to meet business and legal requirements (for example, financial services,
insurance, email, and general file data archiving)
- Disaster recovery: when combined with Isilon SyncIQ replication software, the
NL-Series is a proven solution for organizations whose multisite replication
strategy requires an economical, high-capacity storage device to be located
remotely
- Disk-to-disk backup: can be combined with deduplication technology from other
industry providers to deliver a highly scalable, reliable, easy-to-manage, and
economical disk-based backup target
EMC Isilon HD-series Nodes
The Isilon HD-Series is designed to provide enterprises with a highly efficient and
resilient scale-out storage platform for unstructured data that can scale to over 50 PB
in a single file system. With massive scalability, robust data protection options and a
high density footprint that lowers operating costs by 50%, the Isilon HD-Series is ideal
for Big Data storage needs including deep archiving solutions.
| Current Products |
HD400 |
| Cluster Capacity |
1.06 PB to 50.9 PB |
| Density |
354 TB per node |
Use case examples
- Deep archives: for large-scale, high density, deep archiving data storage that
offers unmatched efficiency to lower costs and provides robust data protection
and security options
- Disaster recovery: provides a highly efficient disaster recovery target for
organizations requiring an economical, large-capacity storage solution
- Enterprise data lake foundation: can be combined with Isilon S-Series, X-Series,
and NL-Series nodes to provide a highly efficient Big Data storage solution that
can support a broad range of traditional and next-generation workloads with a
single Isilon cluster
“As part of a complete production environment transformation,
we deployed EMC Isilon to take our video storage capabilities into
the next generation. Now we don’t have to compromise capacity
for performance—we can grow both at the same time. With EMC
Isilon, we’ve made content access much faster for our clients,
and we’re gaining a competitive advantage over other content
providers.”
Don Merrick
Storage and Backup Services Manager, Associated Press
EMC Isilon A-series Accelerator Nodes
EMC Isilon A-Series accelerator nodes allow you to easily scale performance to meet
the specific needs of your business without adding capacity.
EMC Isilon A100 Backup Accelerator—The Isilon A100 Backup Accelerator is purpose
built to accelerate the data backup process. This is especially important for
organizations facing shrinking backup windows that have the potential to negatively
impact business productivity. The Isilon A100 Backup Accelerator integrates easily
into an existing Isilon cluster, and supports leading Network Data Management
Protocol (NDMP) data backup software products. Each A100 Backup Accelerator node
supports multipathing and can drive multiple uncompressed LTO-5 and LTO-6 tape
drives while supporting both two-way and three-way NDMP to meet your specific data
backup requirements.
EMC Isilon A100 Performance Accelerator—The Isilon A100 Performance Accelerator
integrates seamlessly into any Isilon storage cluster to quickly increase processing
power, memory, bandwidth, and parallel read/write access capabilities. With the A100
Performance Accelerator, you can reduce latency and increase concurrent read
throughput for a cached data set, while gaining the ability to scale performance
independent of capacity. Isilon A100 Performance Accelerator nodes provide an
aggregate throughput of 1,100 MB/s per node and allow you to accelerate cluster
operations, including disk and node rebuilds, file striping, and file-based replication.
EMC World-class Support Services Maximize The Value Of Your Investment
Feel confident. We know that outstanding support is essential to the continued
success of your business. That’s why investment in an Isilon scale-out storage solution
is backed by a global team of support experts who are ready to respond to any
disruption to your storage environment.
We understand that responding to problems after they occur is no longer enough.
Potential issues must be anticipated and prevented to ensure the highest possible
performance, data availability, and operational efficiency. That’s the role of EMC
Support Services. We’re here for you even before you need us.
Comprehensive Breakthrough Storage Solutions
Through the winning combination of the groundbreaking EMC Isilon OneFS operating
system, high-performance industry-standard hardware, and powerful data and
storage management software, EMC Isilon provides a complete portfolio of innovative
storage solutions that drive business value for customers by optimizing missioncritical
applications, workflows, and processes. Isilon storage enables enterprises and
research organizations worldwide to manage large and rapidly growing amounts of
data in a highly scalable, easy-to-manage, and cost-effective way.
Our innovative scale-out storage solutions—built for agility, simplicity, and value—
provide both a tiered storage approach for specialized needs and the ability to unify
digital workflows into a single high-performance, and highly scalable shared pool of
storage. Every easy-to-manage Isilon solution is designed to accelerate workflow
productivity and reduce capital and operational expenditures, while seamlessly scaling
storage in lockstep with the growth of mission-critical data.
Specifications:
| Isilon Solution for Hadoop Analytics Specifications |
| Max Raw Capacity |
20.7 PB |
| Storage Type |
NAS |
| Drive Type |
SATA
Flash SSD |
| Maximum Usable Capacity |
Up to 20 PB per 144-node cluster |
| Max Throughput |
381.6 TB/hr |
| Storage Processors (SPs) |
Intel Xeon Processor |
| Disk Drive Capacity Options |
1 TB
2 TB
3 TB
4 TB |
| Hard Drives per Node |
3.5" 7200K RPM drives: 30 to 36 |
| Capacity per Node |
32 TB to 144 TB |
| SSDs per Node |
0 to 6 drives (400 GB or 800 GB) per node |
| Self-Encrypting Drive Option (SED) |
FIPS 140-2 level 2 validated 3 TB or 4 TB SEDs |
| System ECC Memory |
24 GB to 192 GB |
| Number of Isilon Nodes per Cluster |
3 to 144 |
| Front-End Networking |
4 x GbE or 2 x GbE and 2 x 10GbE (SFP+ or twin-ax copper)
4 x GbE or 2 x GbE and 2 x 10GbE (SFP+) |
| Network Interface |
Isilon network interfaces support IEEE 802.3 standards for 10 Gbps, 1 Gbps, and 100 Mbps network connectivity |
| Infrastructure Networking |
2 InfiniBand connections with double data rate (DDR) links |
| Drive Controller |
SATA-3, 6 Gb/s |
| Non-Volatile RAM (NVRAM) |
512 MB |
| Typical Power Consumption |
800 W at 100 v
720 W at 240 v |
| Typical Thermal Rating |
2,500 BTU/hr |
| Product |
Isilon Products |
| Solution For |
Scale-Out Storage
Storage Consolidation
Hadoop
Mid-Range Storage
Enterprise-Class Storage |
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