1. Simplifying Storage and Accelerating Results
Marc Ondrechen
Corporate Systems Engineer
EMC Isilon Systems Division
Scale-Out NAS
Simplifying Storage and Accelerating Results

2. File-Based Data on Traditional Storage
Complexity and Cost!
Tremendous Inefficiencies:
Increased storage management
Poor system utilization
Over-provisioning of space, energy and cooling
Licensing and re-licensing software applications
Downtime for data migrations and upgrades
Managing downtime for multiple business units
OpEx
Storage Management -Staff
100’s of File Systems
1000’s of Mount Points
Limited Scalability
Limited Throughput
CapEx
Over-provision acquisition
Application Licenses

3. Traditional Storage Inefficiencies
Many File Systems/Volumes (Islands of Storage)
File System
Utilization rates vary across islands
QOS headroom
Performance considerations
= Net Utilization
50% - 65%
Volume
Aggregate (~ 16TB)
RAID

4. Traditional Performance
OneFS > Linear w Scale
PERFORMANCE
CAPACITY
N-Nodes
Controller Performance
PERFORMANCE
CAPACITY
“With traditional storage, my best day is always my first day…”

5. N-Way Symmetrical Cluster
Traditional Scale-Up
Isilon Scale-Out
Natural Bottlenecks
Power of Parallelism
Controller
(Intra-cluster Infiniband)
Disk Shelves
Enterprise Class
Scale Capacity
ISILON IQ NODES
Controllers & trays of disk
Many systems or 2-way clusters
Many file systems/volumes
Many points of management
Up to 144 nodes, 20+ PB
OneFS™ distributed file system
Single file system/namespace
Single point of management
Network
I/O
N-Storage Islands
N-Way Symmetrical Cluster

6. EMC Isilon Scale-Out Innovation
Performance
Scalability
App
Massive Scalability
Up to 20 PB in a single file system
Unmatched Performance
Up to 50 GB/s of throughput
Over 1 Million IOPS
Management Simplicity
“Set it, and forget it”
60 sec upgrades
No forklift upgrades

7. Scale-Out vs. Scale-Up Isilon OneFS Traditional NAS Management
File Systems
Volumes
Aggregates
RAID
Isilon OneFS
Traditional NAS
Management
1 volume, 1 file system
Single volume up to 15 PB
Multiple RAID, volumes, file systems
Single volume up to 16 TB (100 TB in some cases)
Economics
80%+ utilization, <1FTE
Business agility
Investment protection
57% utilization, Multiple FTE’s
Silos, limitations
Forklift upgrades

8. What Makes Isilon Unique? The Isilon Difference
Scalability
Scale both capacity and performance together, or scale only capacity or performance independently
Ease of Management
Install in less than 1 hour, capacity and/or performance in less than 5 minutes
never need to do any raid, volume management or performance tuning
Investment protection
You will never have to do a migration or forklift upgrade with Isilon - when you need
more capacity, just add it to the existing cluster
Utilization and Efficiency
Achieve 80+% storage utilization; eliminate hot spots and bottlenecks
Data Protection
Dynamically set and adjust data protection ( N+1, N+2, N+3 and N+4) at the directory
or file levels
Tiering
File system tiring that does not change file placement or disrupt data access

9. OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE
EMC Isilon’s Scale-Out NAS Solution
OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE
PLATFORM NODES 9

10. Modular, Node-Based Architecture Scalable
OneFS™ Distributed File System
Modular, self-contained nodes each include:
Standard GigE and 10 GigE front-end network
High-performance, low-latency back-end network
Hexa-core Intel processors
4-192 GB global read/write cache
Hot-swappable disks, power supplies, and fans; virtual spares 10

11. Intracluster Communication
Modular, Node-Based Architecture Scalable
Windows
NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FTP, HTTP
UNIX/LINUX
MAC
Intracluster Communication
InfiniBand Layer
Client/Application
Layer
Standard Gigabit
Ethernet Layer
Node-based
Storage Layer

12. Isilon Node Types X-Series NL-Series S-Series Create & Capture Process
Archive
S-Series
X-Series
NL-Series
High-transactional and IO-intensive applications
High-concurrent and throughput applications
Cost-effective, long-term and high capacity storage
Isilon IQ X200
Isilon IQ S200
Isilon IQ NL400
Isilon IQ X400
Isilon S-Series SAS
(16TB – 2PB)
Isilon X-Series SATA
(18TB – 20PB)
Isilon NL-Series SATA
(108TB – 20PB)

13. Fast, Non-Disruptive Upgrades Easy to Manage
OneFS™ scales from 15 TB to over 15 PB
in a in a single file system
Add capacity in under 60 seconds with no downtime
Traditional Scale-Up NAS limited to 16TB file systems 13

14. Using Software to Improve Storage Efficiency Easy to Manage
AutoBalance Automated data balancing across nodes reduces costs, complexity and risks for scaling storage
BALANCED
AutoBalance migrates content to new nodes while system is online and in production
Requires NO manual intervention, NO reconfiguration, NO server or client mount point or application changes
Eliminate “Hot Spots”
EMPTY
FULL
BALANCED
EMPTY
FULL
BALANCED
EMPTY
FULL
BALANCED
EMPTY
FULL
BALANCED
EMPTY 14

15. No More Data Migrations to New Hardware Investment Protection
Old Way New Way
LAN

16. Useable Efficiency Grows with the Cluster Superior Capacity Utilization
3 Node Cluster
N+1 Parity
6 Node Cluster
N+1 Parity
10 Node Cluster
N+1 Parity 16

17. N+M File Striping and Protection Flexible Data Protection
Multi-parity, “software-based RAID” - not disk-based RAID
File-based protection (defined at cluster, directory and/or file level)
Files striped across N nodes, protected against M failures
OneFS
Industry
Simultaneous Protection
N+1
RAID5
Survive one drive/node failure
N+2:1
N/A
Survive two drives or one node failure
N+2
RAID-DP
Survive two drive/node failures
N+3:1
Survive three drive or one node failure
N+3
Survive three drive/node failures
N+4
Survive four drive/node failures
Isilon Proprietary and Confidential

18. Full Suite of Enterprise Software Options
POLICY-BASED AUTOMATED TIERING
Combine multiple storage tiers into a single file system
DATA PROTECTION
Simple, scalable and flexible data protection
DATA ACCESS
Policy-based client load balancing with NFS failover
STORAGE MANAGEMENT
Quota management and thin provisioning
DATA REPLICATION
Fast and flexible file-base asynchronous replication
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Analytics platform to maximize performance and resource utilization
DATA RETENTION MANAGEMENT
WORM functionality enforces file-level retention 18

19. Single File System for Multiple Tiers
Infiniband Core Network
MB/s
Archive
I/Ops
Single Point of Management
Single File System
Scale Any Application
Tiers of Performance
Automatic Data Movement
Policy-Based Movement
Transparent Reallocation
NO application-changes
File-Level Granularity
Performance/Layout
Protection Settings
Technical Innovation

20. Load Balancing with Failover
it.omrf.com
Full access, maintenance interface
Corporate DNS, no SC
Static (well-known) IPs required
hpc.omrf.com
10 GigE dedicated
Accelerator X nodes
NFS Failover required
Example Zoning
Illumina GA2
10 GigE
VMware
Dynamic IPs
Hosts - iSCSI
1 GigE
10.30
File Services

21. Scale-Out Analytics Platform
Rich Visualizations
Elaborate Drill-Downs
Historical and Real-Time
Virtual Appliance
Performance Analytics
CPU/Network Utilization
Cluster, Node, Interface, Client
Protocols, Operations, Disk
Per-File/Directory Performance
File System Analytics
Directory/File Visibility
Technical Insights

22. Summary

23. What Makes Isilon Unique?
The Benefits of Isilon Storage
Scalability
HIGH CONCURRENCY ENVIRONMENTS
LARGE CAPACITY REQURIEMENTS
Ease of Management
MANAGING MORE STORAGE WITH LESS PEOPLE
Investment protection
NO NODE LEFT BEHIND – NO DOWNTIME TO SCALING
Utilization
GREATER ROI ON RAW to USABLE
Data Protection
RECOVERY AND STABILITY IN LARGE DATA ENVIRONMENTS
BETTER THAN DIY SYSTEMS
Tiering
LOWER COST TO KEEP DATA ONLINE while MEETING PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS
MEETING THE 80/20 RULE (INACTIVE/ACTIVE DATA)

24. Thank You