Important Application of Isilon storage.
Hello Friend today I want to share some knowledge of Isilon storage, as I was going through some study material of Isilon storage I found some of its application quite interesting.
Isilon is Storage Company; recently it is acquired by EMC which is known name in Storage world.
Isilon storage box runs on “OneFS “operating system.
Major Application of OneFS are given below.
1. Smartpools
2. InsightIQ
3. SmartConnect
4. SnapshotIQ
5. SyncIQ
6. Smartquota
7. SmartLock
I will explain each application, so that you all can understand about these applications nicely.
SmartPools: enables storage administrators to aggregate and consolidate applications – providing workflow isolation, higher utilization, and independent scalability – with a single point of management.
Features
• Align data automatically with proper storage tier
• Manage data through a single point
• Set file-level granular policies
Key Benefits
• Easily deploy a single file system to span multiple tiers of performance and capacity
• Automatically adapt storage to business data and application workflows over time
• Align the business value of data with optimal storage performance and cost.
InsightIQ provides performance and file system analytics to optimize applications, correlate workflow and network events, and accurately forecast future storage needs.
Features
• Scalable virtual appliance
• Rich visualizations and interactions
• Elaborate drill-downs and breakouts
Key Benefits
• Performance introspection
• File system analytics
• Gain actionable insight into detailed performance and capacity trends
• Optimize workflows and applications
• Reduce inefficiencies and costs
SyncIQ: delivers extremely fast replication of files across multiple Isilon IQ clusters over the WAN and LAN.
SyncIQ: is the industry's only policy-based file replication system designed exclusively for scale-out storage, combining a rich set of policies for creating and scheduling storage replication jobs with innovative bandwidth throttling and cluster utilization capabilities. Replication policies can be set at the cluster, directory or file levels, and replication jobs can be conveniently scheduled or run on-demand - maximizing network and storage resource efficiency and availability.
SnapshotIQ is a data protection feature of Isilon’s OneFS operating system. It reliably distributes an unlimited number of snapshots across multiple, highly available Isilon IQ clustered storage nodes.
Features
• Unlimited snapshots
• Snapshots of changed files only
• Integrated with Windows ShadowCopy service
Key Benefits
• Data protection
• Simple management
• Efficiency
SmartQuotas allows administrators to control and limit storage usage across their organization, and provision a single pool of Isilon clustered storage to best meet the unique storage challenges faced by their organizations.
Features
• Notification and scheduled reporting
• Thin provisioning
• Configurability
Key Benefits
• Simplicity
• Scalability
• Flexibility
• Efficiency
SmartConnect enables client connection load balancing and dynamic NFS failover and failback of client connections across storage nodes to provide optimal utilization of the cluster resources.
Features
• Client connection load balancing
• Dynamic NFS failover and failback
• Performance rebalance
Key Benefits
• Optimize performance
• High availability
• Scalability
SmartLock provides policy-based retention and protection against accidental deletions. Because SmartLock is a software-based approach to Write Once Read Many (WORM) solution, you can store SmartLock-protected data alongside other data types with no effect on performance or availability, and without the added cost of purchasing and maintaining specialty WORM-capable hardware.
Features
• Stored at the directory level
• Set defaults retention times once
• Tight integration with Isilon OneFS
Key Benefits
• Protect critical data
• Guarantee retention
• Efficient and cost effective.
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