ISILON EDGE

Question

hi everyone,

got on my environment with a stretched cluster 4 engines vplex metro cluster over san.

the whole configuration is with XIO and vsphere 6,very fast SAN environment (20 gigbites of dark fiber beetwin the sites)

and off course Active/Active (: now....the NAS environment is N O T Active/Active unfortunately and based on VNX5200 20TB total ssd_sas mixed disks,and i dont want to "lose" the advantage of the VPEX.

so i came up with an idea....

take the NAS vnx5200 and make it a SAN pool present it to the VMWARE,install isilon edge OVF and connect it to the VNX SAN.

im gaining with this move the option to serve CIFS over SAN and to be A/A with "nas" over SAN since the VNX connected to the VPLEX

as FC.

is this possible and supported by vendor.

regards

sjones51 · Answer

Hi eladb,

Have you checked this out yet? EMC IsilonSD Edge - Isilon Info Hub

There is some documentation there that may be helpful in answering some of your questions. While I can't speak to the possibility/support of the exact configuration, I did come across this in documentation regarding support:

Support for IsilonSD Edge

If you are running a free version of IsilonSD Edge, community support is available through

the EMC Isilon Community Network. However, if you have purchased one or more licenses

of IsilonSD Edge, you can contact EMC Isilon Technical Support for assistance, provided

you have a valid support contract for the product.

This comes from page 14 of the Technical Specifications Guide for OneFS 8.0 and IsilonSD Edge
https://support.emc.com/docu65240

Eric_W1 · Answer

EMC is the only one that can answer the question but I doubt they would officially support a cluster with any asymmetry in the nodes ( including latency ).

eladb1 · Answer

thanks guys for the help! i contact my guy in EMC and there no support of connecting vnx or any other array storage unless its 'embedded in the esx itself' regards...

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