Isilon Hardware

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 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

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 Module Overview
• In this module, you will learn about Isilon Hardware.
You will receive an overview of the product catalog
and specific details on each of the node types, their
use cases, configurable options, and selling tips.
• After completing this module, you should be able to
converse with customers about the features,
benefits, and applicable scenarios where the use of
an Isilon hardware solution would be appropriate.

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 Isilon Hardware
Catalog Overview
S-Series
X-Series
NL-Series
Accelerators
Resources

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 Catalog Overview
CREATE & CAPTURE PROCESS NEAR LINE ARCHIVE

S-Series X-Series NL-Series Backup

Transactional High Concurrent / Nearline Storage Accelerator
Random Sequential to Tape Storage
Access Throughput

Isilon X200
Isilon S200

Isilon X400 Isilon IQ NL400

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

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 Catalog Overview
What is Tiered Storage?
Isilon’s hardware solutions provide a tiered storage approach to meet
particular customer requirements, and unify applications and workflows
into a single high-performance, highly scalable shared pool of storage.

Key benefits Tier 1

• Modular, pay-as-you-grow
• Match exact storage needs
• Always single file system to
Tier 2
manage regardless of cluster
size
• Linear and predictable
performance scalability Tier 3

Tier N

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 Catalog Overview
Disk Types

• Isilon nodes have customizable drive options

• Drives can combine to meet specific storage requirements
• SSD’s are great for storing metadata, GNA, or Tier 0 data
• Can also be combined with SATA and used for primary
storage

Disk Type Capacity

SSD 100 GB, 200 GB, 400 GB
2.5” SAS 300 GB, 600 GB, 900 GB
3.5” SATA 500 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB, 4 TB

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 • Front & Back Details
• Selling Points
• Use Cases

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 Isilon S200 – Front & Back Details

2RU

2.5” 10K RPM SAS HDD

Power Receptacles (Nema

5-15R) Dual IB Ports
2x1 GE ports

USB (x2) Console Port (DB9) 2x10 GE Card

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 Selling Points
Key Benefits
• High performance NAS solution that scales with your most
demanding workflows and applications
• Optimum blend of price – performance ($/IOPs) to
accelerate time to market and maximize return on
investment
• Delivers maximum IOPs per rack unit while lowering power,
cooling and footprint expenses

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 Use Cases
Tier 1 customers requiring maximum IOPS performance
• Digital Media
• Broadcast and real-time streaming
• Rendering and post-production
• Design and Simulation
• Simulation, verification, and analysis of electronic
and mechanical systems
• Design for manufacturability
• Quantitative Analysis
• Analysis requiring fast scratch storage for high
transitional and random access file based
applications.

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 • Front & Back Details
• Selling Points
• Use Cases

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 Isilon X200 – Front & Back Details

2RU

3.5” 7.2K RPM SATA HDD

USB (x2)
Dual IB Ports
2x1 GE ports
Power Receptacles Console Port (DB9)
(Nema 5-15R)
VGA (HD15) 2x10 GE Card

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 Selling Points
Key Benefits
• Highly flexible platform for a broad range of
performance and capacity points
• Optimized for concurrent and streaming performance
• Best-in-class price to performance and TCO
• High rack density creates a great Tier 2 solution
• Low entry cost coupled with high concurrent
throughput makes this the most popular Isilon product

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 Use Cases
High-concurrency and high-throughput applications and workflows

• 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

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 • Front & Back Details
• Selling Points
• Use Cases

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 Isilon X400/NL400 – Front & Back Details

4RU

3.5” 7.2K RPM SATA HDD

Console Port (DB9) (optional) 2x10

USB (x2) 2x1 GE ports
GE Card

Dual IB Ports
Power Receptacles
(Nema 5-19R)

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 Selling Points
Key Benefits
• High density NAS beats $/TB in the near-line segment
• Unmatched data protection (+4) set at cluster, directory or file
• Over 80% capacity utilization rate
• Heterogeneous cluster support Note: 40% of Isilon
bookings are for NL
• Works with customer’s existing Deployments
backup and archive applications
• New conversations with installed base
– add archive to an existing cluster NL Series
• Provides compliance capabilities and Other
general use in a single file system

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 Use Cases
Compliments and improves existing tape backup, archiving, and data
protection strategies, including:

• 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

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 Platform Extension Nodes
Performance Accelerator X
Features
• Allows for scaling of performance independent of capacity at one-
third the cost of traditional storage architectures
• Improves single-stream performance to more than 700 MBps
• Contains dual quad-core CPUs, 10 Gigabit Ethernet front-end
networking, and up to 32 GB of memory
• Joins an Isilon cluster on the fly, in less than 15 seconds
USB (x2) Console Port (DB9) 2x10 GE Card

Power Receptacles
2x1 GE ports 2x10 GE Card
(Nema 5-15R)

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 Platform Extension Nodes
Backup Accelerator
Features
• Provides a dedicated resource for backup, freeing the Isilon cluster for production storage needs
• Supports LT0 tape devices, NDMP 4.0, and industry-leading backup software.
• Enables FC connectivity to back-up tape SAN resources
• Provides up to 480 MBps or 1.7 TB per hour aggregate per Backup Accelerator
• Joins an Isilon cluster on the fly in less than 60 seconds

Power Receptacles
2x1 GE ports 4 x 4 GB Fiber
(Nema 5-15R)
Channel

USB (x2) Console Port (DB9) 2x10 GE Card

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 Legato
Fibre Channel (Data)
Two-Way NDMP with Backup Accelerator
• Data travels over dedicated high speed network
• Multiple simultaneous data streams
• Improves node performance
• Does not impact customer’s production network
• Greatly increased transfer rates
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Tivoli
Node Scaling - Optimized
• S-Series: 2 Nodes per Backup Accelerator
• X-Series: 3 Nodes per Backup Accelerator
• NL-Series: 3 Nodes per Backup Accelerator
• I-Series: 5 Nodes per Backup Accelerator
• LTO-4: 4 Tape devices per Backup Accelerator
• LTO-3: 8 Tape devices per Backup Accelerator
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 Isilon’s Unique Approach to SSD
Adoption
Faster Namespace Operations

• 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.)

Significantly Lower Latency and IOPS boost!

• ~8x improvement in latency for metadata intensive workflows

• ~2x increase in IOPS (SpecSFS2008 workflow)

Hybrid Nodes with Optimum SSD + SATA/SAS Ratios

• SATA + SSD optimized for concurrent/sequential throughput workflows

• SAS + SSD optimized for random read/write IOPS workflows

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 SSD Usage
• Hybrid nodes have SSDs and HDDs
• Use for metadata
• Global namespace acceleration
– 20% SSDs
– SSD 2% of total storage space
• SSD strategy settings
– Metadata Acceleration
– Data on SSDs
– Avoid SSDs
• Considerations for when to use
– Large number of files in a cluster
– How much Searching and Indexing in the workflow
– Tree walk operations

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 Resources - Data Sheets

www.Isilon.com/scale-out-platform-nodes
Click the images above for links to the product data sheets

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Isilon S, X, and NL Node Comparison
Simple, efficient, scalable

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

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 Isilon S, X, and NL Nodes
Configurable Options per Node

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

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 Isilon S, X, and NL Nodes
Common Use Cases

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.

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 Isilon S, X, NL Nodes
Selling Points

S X NL

High performance: High Flexibility: High Efficiency:

Ultra fast primary storage for mission
critical, high transactional, and
random access file based
applications.
High-concurrent and sequential
throughput, with great rack density
creates a great tier 2 solutions for a
broad range of industries and
workflows.
Ultra-high density with up to 27TB per
rack unit, over 1 PB per rack, and a
total cluster maximum size of over
15.5 PBs.

Broad Business Application

Fastest Single File System Cost Savings:
Use:
NAS device: Near-primary storage performance at
Low entry cost coupled with great
Over 1.6 million IOps and 85 GBps near-tape storage costs.
concurrent throughput makes the
aggregate throughput from a single
X200 the most popular Isilon product.
file system, and single volume

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 Additional Resources
Internal Resources & Links
•Isilon Page on Powerlink
•Isilon/EMC Battlecard (Internal-only)
• Isilon/EMC Solution Brief (Customer-
facing)
• Text for Introduction Email from EMC to
Customers/Prospects (Customer-facing)
• Key Wins (Internal-only)
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• Saleshelp@isilon.com
– Email address to find out who your
local rep is if you have a possible deal
• techelp@isilon.com
– Email address for technical questions
about whether Isilon is a good fit, and
who your local SE is
• ebchelp@isilon.com
–Email address for when you have an
executive-breifing and need someone
from Isilon to support it
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 Course Summary

You should now be able to:

• Describe the Hardware offerings for Isilon Scale-Out NAS

• Describe common market use cases for where each Isilon
node would be best positioned
• Describe the selling points of each of Isilon’s different
hardware offerings
• Articulate the details of each node type and its features with
benefits

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 Thank You
• Please note:
– It may take up to 24 hours for your
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you have successfully completed this
course.
– If after 24 hours your transcript is not
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EdServices@emc.com describing your
issue.
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