5 Dell EMC Networking with Isilon Front-End Deployment and Best Practices Guide | version 1.0
1 Introduction
Dell EMC Isilon is the leading scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) platform and offers the right blend of
performance and capacity to support a wide range of unstructured data workloads including high-performance
computing (HPC), file shares, home directories, archives, media content, video surveillance, and in-place data
analytics. Isilon offers all-flash, hybrid, and archive storage systems that can be combined into a single
cluster. All Isilon models are powered by the Isilon OneFS operating system. With its modular hardware
design, Isilon solutions scale easily from tens of terabytes to tens of petabytes in a single cluster.
The OneFS operating system uses a single volume, single namespace, single file system architecture,
making Isilon storage systems simple to install, manage and scale. And with automated, policy-based
management options including data protection, replication, load-balancing, storage tiering and cloud
integration, Isilon solutions remain simple to manage no matter how large the data environment becomes.
All nodes work together as peers in the cluster, leaving no single point of failure. As nodes are added, OneFS
expands dynamically and redistributes data, eliminating the work of partitioning disks and creating volumes.
Additionally, OneFS ensures that the workloads are dynamically reassigned when a failure occurs. This is
achieved using the OneFS SmartConnect feature.
Isilon Scale-Out NAS
The Isilon Scale-out NAS utilizes Dell EMC Networking ethernet switches to provide the network. Dell EMC
Networking OS9 and the new OS10 Enterprise Edition (OS10EE) are used in the provided examples.
OS10EE is a disaggregated native Linux-based network operating system that has a fully disaggregated
software architecture. OS10EE decouples the base software from the Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocol stack and
services, which brings forth the ability for open programmability and portability. This allows for greater
utilization of Dell EMC’s Open Networking, in this guide we will utilize Dell EMC Networking operating
systems.
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