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Isilon All-Flash is a scale-out NAS storage platform that combines the extreme performance of flash technology with the proven efficiency, flexibility and resiliency of Isilon storage, the #1 scale-out NAS platform in the industry. Powered by the Isilon OneFS operating system, Isilon All-Flash storage is designed to support a wide range of applications and workloads that require extreme NAS performance. Isilon All-Flash can be deployed separately or easily integrated into existing Isilon clusters to enable customers to modernize IT, enable digital business and accelerate the performance of an enterprise data lake.
The Isilon All-Flash uses a revolutionary, highly dense design that provides 4 Isilon nodes within a single 4U chassis. Available in several configurations, the Isilon all-flash platform will deliver up to 250,000 IOPS and 15 GB/s bandwidth per chassis while providing and capacity options ranging from 92 TB to 924 TB per chassis. Isilon All-Flash solutions can expand easily as needed up to 100 chassis is a single cluster to provide a total cluster performance of up to 25M IOPS and 1.5 TB/s bandwidth.
Along with extreme NAS performance, Isilon All-Flash scale-out NAS provides proven enterprise-grade capabilities that organizations demand including:
- Operational flexibility: Powered by the Isilon OneFS operating system with its extensive multi-protocol capabilities (including NFS, SMB, FTP, HDFS, REST, Swift, HTTP, and NDMP), the new Isilon all-flash scale-out NAS platform will support a wide range of applications and workloads on a single platform.
- Massive scalability: With Isilon All-Flash scale-out NAS storage, customers can start with a single 4U chassis and easily expand capacity by combining up to 100 Isilon All-Flash units into a single cluster that provides up to 92.4 PB of storage capacity.
- Enterprise data protection: Because it runs on the Isilon OneFS operating system, Isilon All-Flash scale-out NAS is highly resilient, with up to N+4 redundancy, and offers proven enterprise-grade data back-up and disaster recovery options.
- Robust data security: Isilon All-Flash offers a broad range of data security options including role-based access control (RBAC); secure access zones; write-once read many (WORM) data protection; file system auditing; and data-at-rest encryption with self-encrypting drives (SEDs) to meet stringent security and compliance options.
- Unmatched efficiency: In addition to storage utilization that can exceed 80%, Isilon All-Flash solutions can leverage Isilon SmartDedupe data deduplication to further reduce storage requirements by up to 30% or more.
- Storage tiering: With Isilon SmartPools and CloudPools software, Isilon All-Flash storage solutions can also take advantage of policy-based, automated storage tiering to move data automatically to lower cost tiers, including a choice of cloud storage options, as data ages or becomes less valuable. This enables customers to reduce capital expenses and optimize storage resources by reserving their Isilon All-Flash storage for their most demanding applications.
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October 26th, 2016 07:00
What types of workloads/use cases are good candidates for Isilon All-Flash?
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October 26th, 2016 13:00
What Front End NICs are available to be used?
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October 26th, 2016 13:00
I had a customer ask me how and when they can order Isilon All-Flash. What process do they need to follow and how they can get someone to contact them.
geeta_vaghela
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October 27th, 2016 14:00
10GbE (SFP+) or 40GbE (QSFP+)
geeta_vaghela
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October 27th, 2016 14:00
Select "Get Pre-Order Information" from here: http://www.emc.com/en-us/storage/isilon/index.htm
This will route you down the path to get the details you need.
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October 27th, 2016 14:00
The new Isilon All-Flash platform will provide blazing performance to run a wide range of the most demanding NAS workloads. Examples include:
1) Data Lake: Customers looking to consolidate their unstructured data with a data lake that supports a wide range of workloads including a number of applications that require extreme NAS performance.
2) Media & Entertainment: M&E customer target use cases include: 4K streaming of data to drive higher resolution of viewing content; and large-scale render farms that need to process larger datasets and generate content faster.
3) Life Sciences: Target use cases include genomics sequencing and large-scale microscopy environments that need to process enormous datasets in a short time period
4) Financial Services: Use cases will include workloads that need high performance, low latency and maximum throughput such as ticker analysis that requires near real-time analysis of stock market data on very large datasets.
5) Big Data Analytics: Customers looking to run a wide range of near real-time analytics with their choice of Big Data analytics vendors like Hortonworks, Cloudera, Pivotal, IBM and Splunk.
6) Big Data Analytics: Customers looking to run a wide range of near real-time analytics with their choice of Big Data analytics vendors like Hortonworks, Cloudera, Pivotal, IBM and Splunk.
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October 27th, 2016 17:00
How are the Caches handled in Isilon AFA? Use only the L1 and L2 Caches?
With SmartPools, is it reasonable to assume that the Isilon AFA nodes will be used the most? If that's the case, is there something smart to protect the flash arrays from worn out quickly?
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October 28th, 2016 04:00
Can you provide some details about the hardware specs like CPU, memory etc?
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October 28th, 2016 04:00
A customer asked about the following scenario. they have a number of S-, X-, and NL- series nodes in their cluster and they are running out of floor space in their data center. Can they integrate Isilon All-Flash into their existing Isilon cluster and move the data to the new All-Flash nodes and then eliminate the old S- and X- nodes to free up floor space, power, cooling etc?
could you talk about how this is accomplished and how disruptive this is likely to be.
scott_owens
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October 28th, 2016 10:00
This would be accomplished using SmartPools. In order to join the All-Flash to an existing Isilon Cluster, the existing cluster would need to be upgraded to a new version of OneFS to support the new All-Flash hardware. Once the All-Flash is joined to the existing cluster, a SmartPool policy can be used to move data from the S-, X- and NL- nodes.
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October 28th, 2016 10:00
The Isilon AFA will still use L1 and L2 cache. The L2 cache in particular will be considerably larger because of the large memory footprint of the AFA. Since the node is comprised exclusively of SSD, L3 caching won't apply since all data and metadata will already live on flash.
Where data lives, both the initial write and longer term retention, is based on your SmartPools policies. As mentioned above the larger cache footprint allows us to even more efficiently coalesce writes. On top of that, improved drive firmware and larger SSD sizes means that wear is much less of an issue that it was in the past.
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October 28th, 2016 18:00
A customer asked about adding additional nodes or chassis to a All Flash cluster.
To start a cluster, one chassis of 4 nodes is required. At that point, to increase performance or capacity does the customer have to purchase another full chassis of 4 nodes?
Or, can they purchase a chassis that only contains 2 nodes?
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October 29th, 2016 04:00
A customer wanted to know if they could mix drives of different capacities in the same chassis.
In other words, can they have the 15TB drives in 2 nodes of the chassis and the 3.4TB drives in the other 2 nodes of the same chassis?
what combinations of mixed capacities can they have at a cluster level and at a chassis level?
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October 30th, 2016 23:00
14. Re: Ask the Expert: Accelerate the Data Lake with Isilon All-Flash
sri_seshadri Oct 29, 2016 4:31 AM (in response to Roberto Araujo)
A customer wanted to know if they could mix drives of different capacities in the same chassis.
In other words, can they have the 15TB drives in 2 nodes of the chassis and the 3.4TB drives in the other 2 nodes of the same chassis?
what combinations of mixed capacities can they have at a cluster level and at a chassis level?
Chassis must be homogeneous - same capacity for both couplet pairs.