Is Isilon a EMC?

Isilon Systems was acquired by EMC in November 2010 for $2.25 billion. At Dell Technologies World this year Dell EMC announced it’s working with Google to allow a Dell EMC Isilon cluster to reside in a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) datacenter, which is being called Isilon Cloud for GCP.

What is Isilon used for?

Dell EMC Isilon is a scale out network-attached storage platform offered by Dell EMC for high-volume storage, backup and archiving of unstructured data.

What is Isilon A200?

Isilon archive platforms are designed to provide highly efficient and resilient archive storage. The A200 is an ideal active archive storage solution that combines near-primary accessibility, ease of use, and capacity. Isilon A200 Specifications. HDD Capacity: 60 SATA drives (2 TB, 4 TB, or 8 TB) per chassis.

Does Isilon use RAID?

Instead of using RAIDs, Isilon uses FEC (Forward Error Correction) and more specifically a Reed-Solomon algorithm to protect data on a cluster. It’s similar to RAID5 in how it generates a protection block (or blocks) for each stripe. But it happens on a software level, instead of hardware as in storage arrays.

What is the difference between Isilon and PowerScale?

Dell EMC PowerScale combines a modified version of the Isilon OneFS software tuned for Dell PowerEdge servers. The systems provide unified access to files and unstructured data.

What is Dell power scale?

PowerScale is the foundation for building an integrated and optimized IT infrastructure for AI initiatives, from POC to production. The integration and optimization showcased includes PowerScale, PowerEdge, PowerSwitch and Dell Precision Data Science Workstations.

Does NFS 4.1 support Isilon?

At this time Isilon OneFS supports NFS versions 3 and 4.

How do I create an NFS export in Isilon?

Setting Up NFS Export in OneFS

  1. Open OneFS WebGUI.
  2. Navigate to Protocols –> UNIX Sharing (NFS)
  3. Click Create Export.
  4. Select directory to be shared.
  5. Click Create Export.
  6. Mount NFS export on Linux/UNIX machine (see commands below)

How does Isilon protect data?

The Isilon system uses the Reed-Solomon algorithm for N+M protection with Forward Error Correction (FEC). Protection is applied at the file level, enabling the cluster to recover data quickly and efficiently.