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Isilon Hardware
Isilon Hardware
Ver. 010111
EMC CONFIDENTIAL — FOR TRAINING PURPOSES ONLY 1
Course Roadmap
Isilon Hardware - for Pre-Sales
Course Expectations….
• 15 minutes in total length
– 28 scripted slides
• 5 question quiz ~ 80% required for passing score
Isilon X200
Isilon S200
SAS Based Nodes SATA Based Nodes SATA Based Nodes High Performance
(16 TB - 2.1 PB) (18 TB – 15.5PB) (108 TB – 15.5PB) Backup/Restore
Tier N
2RU
2RU
USB (x2)
Dual IB Ports
2x1 GE ports
Power Receptacles Console Port (DB9)
(Nema 5-15R)
VGA (HD15) 2x10 GE Card
• Life Sciences
– Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Research
– Ideal for primary analysis of raw instrument
data
• Higher Education
– IT, Libraries, Science, Engineering, Media,
Sports
– Ideal for home directories, server
virtualization and HPC
4RU
Dual IB Ports
Power Receptacles
(Nema 5-19R)
• Nearline Archiving
– Economical storage and rapid disk-based access to reference data
to meet business and legal requirements
• Disaster Recovery
– For organizations whose multi-site replication strategy requires an
economical, high-capacity storage device to be located remotely
• Disk-to-Disk Backup
– Compliments compression and de-duplication technologies to
deliver a scalable, reliable, easy-to-manage and economical disk-
based back up target
Power Receptacles
2x1 GE ports 2x10 GE Card
(Nema 5-15R)
Power Receptacles
2x1 GE ports 4 x 4 GB Fiber
(Nema 5-15R)
Channel
• Data travels over dedicated high speed network • S-Series: 2 Nodes per Backup Accelerator
• Multiple simultaneous data streams • X-Series: 3 Nodes per Backup Accelerator
• Improves node performance • NL-Series: 3 Nodes per Backup Accelerator
• Does not impact customer’s production network • I-Series: 5 Nodes per Backup Accelerator
• Greatly increased transfer rates • LTO-4: 4 Tape devices per Backup Accelerator
• LTO-3: 8 Tape devices per Backup Accelerator
• Design and simulation workflows (make files, design sync, IP access, etc.)
• Accelerates replication process for business continuity (RPO)
• Home directories workflows (config... files, mydocs, etc.)
www.Isilon.com/scale-out-platform-nodes
Click the images above for links to the product data sheets
S X NL
Form factor 2U 2U 4U 4U
2 (4 core) 1 (4 core) 2 (6 core) 2 (4 core)
Maximum CPU
Intel Westmere Intel Westmere Intel Westmere
Max. memory Node/Cluster 96 GB / 13.4 TB 48 GB / 6.9TB 192 GB/27.7TB 16 GB / 2.3 TB
Maximum drives 24 12 36 36
Drive types 2.5″ SAS, SSD 3.5″ SATA, SSD 3.5″ SATA
Maximum node capacity 14.4 TB 36 TB 108 TB 108 TB
2.1 PB at 144 5.2 PB 15.5 PB 15.5 PB at 144
Maximum cluster size
nodes at 144 nodes nodes
Protocols NFS, CIFS, HDFS, FTP, HTTP, iSCSI
Maximum IOPS 2,196,720 959,328 1,178,784 728,784
Maximum throughput 84,960 MB/s 64 GB/s 120 GB/s 43,217 MB/s
S X NL
2U 4U
(2) Quad Core 2.4 GHz (1) 4 core (2) 6 core (1 or 2) Quad Core
CPU (Intel)
12M Cache 2.0 GHz 2.4 GHz Intel 1.6 GHz
(18-24) 300GB or (6-12, 30-36 ) 1, 2, or (36) 1TB, 2TB, or 3TB
Hard Drives
600GB 10k 2.5″ SAS 3TB 7.2k 3.5″ SATA 7.2k 3.5″ SATA
SSD Drives (1, 2, or 6) 200 GB (1, 2, 3, or 6) 200GB None
Capacity in TB 6.8 – 14.4 4.2 – 36 31.2 - 108 36, 72, 108
Memory in GB 24, 48, or 96 6 - 48 24 - 192 4 or 16 GB
(4) GigE or (2) GigE (4) GigE or (2) GigE (4) GigE or (2) GigE
Networking
and (2) 10GigE and (2) 10GigE and (2) 10GigE
Fiber or Twinax Fiber or Twinax Fiber or Twinax
10GigE SFP+
Copper Copper Copper
S X NL
Digital Media:
Nearline Archiving:
Digital Media: Broadcast, post production, and DI (digital
For economical storage and rapid
Broadcast, real-time intermediate)
disk-based access to reference data
streaming, rendering, and to meet business and legal
Internet/Web 2.0:
post production requirements.
Online video, audio, and image serving; Web-analytics
Design & Simulation: Disaster Recovery:
Simulation, verification, Life Sciences: When combined with the Isilon
and analysis of electronic Genetic sequencing and large scale microscopy SyncIQ replication application, a
and mechanical systems, environments proven solution for organizations
design for whose multi-site replication strategy
manufacturability, and Electronic Design Automation:
Design team collaboration, design libraries, tools requires an economical high-capacity
analysis requiring fast storage device to be located remotely.
scratch storage scripts, and design implementation databases
Disk-to-Disk Backup:
Quantitative Analysis: Virtualized Environments: Can be combined with compression
Analysis requiring fast scratch Tier 2 and Tier 3 workloads and de-duplication technology to
storage for high transitional
deliver a highly scalable, reliable,
and random access file based HPC and Research:
applications. easy-to-manage and economical disk-
Large sequential IO and throughput, Tier 2 results
based backup target.
analysis and instrument data.
S X NL