EMC ISILON SCALE-OUT STORAGE

PRODUCT FAMILY
Unstructured data storage made simple
ESSENTIALS

Simple storage management

designed for ease of use

Massive scalability of capacity

and performance

Unmatched efficiency to
reduce costs

Automated tiered storage to

optimize resources

Multiprotocol support to
maximize operational flexibility

Resilient data protection for a

highly available environment

Robust security and compliance

options

ITS NOT JUST DATA, ITS YOUR BUSINESS

EMC Isilon scale-out storage solutions are designed for enterprises that want to
manage their data, not their storage. Our storage systems are powerful yet simple
to install, manage, and scale to virtually any size. And, unlike traditional enterprise
storage, Isilon solutions stay simple no matter how much storage capacity is added,
how much performance is required, or how business needs change in the future. Were
challenging enterprises to think differently about their storage, because when they do,
theyll recognize theres a better, simpler waywith Isilon.

EXPAND IT...SIMPLY
With EMC Isilon scale-out network-attached storage (NAS), you can have massive
room for growthwith over 20 petabytes (PB) of capacity per cluster. Go ahead. Take
on more projects, perform more in-depth research, and serve up more data. You can
scale both capacity and performance in about a minute to meet your specific business
needsall without any additional IT burden.

ACCELERATE IT...SIMPLY
EMC Isilon storage provides you with the tools to dramatically increase workflow
productivity and maximize the value of your enterprise applications and Big Data
assetsallowing you to accelerate your business through faster time to money
and new revenue opportunities.

PROTECT IT...SIMPLY
You dont entrust your most valuable assets to just anyone. EMC Isilon storage
solutions provide the highest levels of reliability, availability, and serviceability
in the industry. For fast and efficient data backup and recovery, you can schedule
snapshots as frequently as needed to meet your specific recovery-point objectives.
For reliable disaster recovery protection, our storage solutions provide extremely
fast data replication, along with push-button failover and failback simplicity, to
further increase the availability of your data for mission-critical applications.

SECURE IT...SIMPLY
Meeting regulatory compliance and corporate governance requirements is essential for
most organizations today. Isilon solutions help you address these needs by providing
flexible security options, including file system auditing and Data at Rest Encryption
(DARE) with self-encrypting drives (SEDs). We also offer write once, read many
(WORM) data protection to prevent accidental or malicious alteration or deletion and
help you meet applicable regulatory requirementsincluding the stringent SEC 17a-4
rule. With Isilon, you can also provide secure role separation between storage
administration and file system access, as well as authentication zones, to create
DATA SHEET

secure, isolated storage pools for specific departments within your organization.

EMC ISILON ONEFS OPERATING SYSTEM

POWERS SCALE-OUT STORAGE SOLUTIONS
The EMC Isilon OneFS operating system provides the intelligence behind all Isilon
scale-out storage solutions. Through the fusion of OneFS, state-of-the-art engineering,
and industry-standard enterprise hardware, EMC Isilon provides a highly scalable,
highperformance modular storage architecture that can grow with your business.
OneFS can help you accelerate processes and workflows, while scaling easily to handle
massive growth and providing the highest levels of data protection available. This is all
provided in a storage solution designed for unmatched ease of use.

EMC Isilon scale-out storage solutions, powered by the OneFS operating

system, provide users with a broad range of options to meet their specific
storage needs.

UNMATCHED AGILITY AND PERFORMANCE

Change is inevitable. Thats why every EMC Isilon system is built to rapidly and simply
adapt. OneFS allows a storage system to grow symmetrically or independently as more
space or processing power is required. This allows you to scale your storage easily as
your business needs dictate. With Isilon, you can scale capacity to over 20 PB and
performance up to 2.6 million file operations per second, with over 200 gigabytes per
second (GB/s) of aggregate throughputall from a single file system.
To further accelerate performance, Isilon solutions incorporate innovative features like
a scale-out flash tier that can provide over 700 TB of flash cache in a single cluster
along with support for Microsoft SMB 3.0 Multi-Channel.

EFFICIENCY AND COST-SAVINGS

Orchestrated by OneFS, all components in an Isilon cluster work in concert to
create a unified pool of highly efficient storagewith a storage utilization rate
of over 80 percent. With Isilon SmartDedupe data deduplication, you can further
reduce your data storage requirements by up to 35 percent in environments with
redundant data across multiple sources. The unmatched efficiency of Isilon storage
systems means that less physical storage and space are required to house the same
amount of datareducing both initial capital outlay and ongoing costs. And, with the
EMC Isilon AutoBalance function, you can quickly and easily add nodes without
downtime, manual data migration, or application logic reconfiguration, saving precious
IT resources. And because Isilon storage is so easy to manage, it requires fewer IT
resources for storage administration than traditional storage systems, which further
reduces overall operating costs.

SIMPLE INTEROPERABILITY
With Isilon, you can streamline your storage infrastructure by consolidating large-scale
file and unstructured data assets, eliminating silos of storage. EMC Isilon scale-out NAS
includes integrated support for a wide range of industry-standard protocols, including
NFS, SMB, HTTP, FTP, REST-based Object access for your cloud initiatives and native
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). As a result, you can simplify workflows,
accelerate business analytics projects, support cloud infrastructure initiatives, and get
more value from your enterprise applications and data.
EMC Isilon solutions readily integrate with your VMware environment and incorporate
VMware VAAI and VASA APIs to increase virtualization performance and simplify the
management of your virtualized IT environment. These levels of interoperability help
you leverage your large data assets more flexibly with a broad range of applications
and workloads, and across a diverse IT infrastructure environment.

ENTERPRISE DATA PROTECTION AND

MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Massive stores of data present unique management challenges, including disaster
recovery, quota management, and offsite replication. EMC Isilon data protection
and management software provides you with powerful tools that help you protect
your data assets, control costs, and optimize the storage resources and system
performance of your Big Data environment.
Maximize the performance of your Isilon

EMC ISILON

Performance

INSIGHTIQ

management

EMC ISILON

Resource

SMARTPOOLS

management

EMC ISILON

Data

partition and thin provision storage into easily

SMARTQUOTAS

management

managed segments at the cluster, directory,

scale-out storage system with innovative

performance monitoring and reporting tools
Implement a highly efficient, automated
tiered storage strategy to optimize storage
performance and efficiency
Assign and manage quotas that seamlessly

subdirectory, user, and group levels

Enable client connection load balancing and

EMC ISILON
SMARTCONNECT

Data access

the dynamic NFS failover and failback of

client connections across storage nodes to
optimize the use of cluster resources

Protect data efficiently and reliably with

secure, near-instantaneous snapshots, while
EMC ISILON

Data

incurring little to no performance overhead,

SNAPSHOTIQ

protection

and speed the recovery of critical data with

near-immediate on-demand snapshot
restores

EMC ISILON

Data

Manage Isilon functions from

FOR VCENTER

management

VMware vCenter

Increase efficiency and reduce storage

EMC ISILON

Data

capacity requirements by up to 35 percent

SMARTDEDUPE

management

with deduplication of redundant data across

multiple sources
Replicate and distribute large mission-critical
data sets to multiple shared storage systems

EMC ISILON
SYNCIQ

Data

in multiple sites for reliable disaster recovery

replication

capability, and use push-button failover and

failback simplicity to increase the availability
of mission-critical data
Protect your critical data against accidental,
premature, or malicious alteration or deletion

EMC ISILON
SMARTLOCK

Data

with our software-based approach to WORM,

retention

and meet stringent compliance and

governance needs, such as SEC 17a-4
requirements

ASPERA FOR
ISILON

Content

Benefit from high-performance wide area

delivery

file and content delivery

As part of a complete production

environment transformation, we
deployed EMC Isilon to take our
video storage capabilities into the
next generation. Now we dont
have to compromise capacity for
performancewe can grow both
at the same time. With EMC Isilon,
weve made content access much
faster for our clients, and were
gaining a competitive advantage
over other content providers.
Don Merrick
Storage and Backup Services Manager, Associated Press

EMC ISILON HARDWARE PLATFORM:

FLEXIBLE PRODUCT LINES
EMC Isilon offers highly flexible scale-out storage solutions with precisely the
right storage on a grow-as-you-go basis, eliminating the need for forecasting
or overprovisioning. EMC Isilon hardware platforms are built on the innovative
Isilon scale-out storage architecturedesigned for simplicity, value, outstanding
performance, and unmatched reliability. Our platform offerings include flexible
product lines that can be combined in a single file system and volume, providing
application consolidation tailored for your specific business needs.

EMC ISILON S-SERIES NODES

The EMC Isilon S-Series answers the need for highperformance primary storage,
purpose built for high-transactional and IOPS-intensive applications. The S-Series
combines unmatched IOPS performance with high efficiency and an ultra-low overhead
scale-out NAS package. With SSD technology for file system metadata and file-based
storage workflows, the S-Series delivers additional performance gains for metadataintensive operations while improving overall latency.

CURRENT

S200, S210

PRODUCTS

16.2 TB to 4.15 PB

CLUSTER
CAPACITY*

7.2 TB, 14.4 TB, 21.6 TB, or 28.8 TB per node

DENSITY*

*Based on non-SSD configuration

Use case examples

Digital media: broadcast, real-time streaming, rendering, and post-production

Electronic Design Automation: Design, simulation, verification, and analysis of

electronic and mechanical systems, design for manufacturability

Life Sciences: DNA and RNA sequencing, genomics, and large-scale microscopy
environments

With Isilon, weve been able to

grow a single file system to nearly
a petabyte in less than a year while
still maintaining the data throughput
necessary to power our workflow and
advance our research.
Matthew Trunnell
Manager of Research Computing, Broad Institute

EMC ISILON X-SERIES NODES

The EMC Isilon X-Series, our most flexible and comprehensive storage product
line, strikes the right balance between large capacity and high-performance
storage. The highly versatile X-Series is an ideal solution for high-throughput
and high-concurrency applications. With SSD technology for file system metadata
and file-based storage workflows, the EMC Isilon X-Series significantly accelerates
namespace-intensive operations. To meet rigorous data security and compliance
requirements, Isilon also offers Data at Rest Encryption (DARE) with self-encrypting
drive (SED) options with the X-Series platform.

CURRENT

X200, X400, X410

PRODUCTS

CLUSTER

18 TB to over 20 PB

CAPACITY*

DENSITY*

X200: 12 TB, 24 TB, or 36 TB per node

X400 and X410: 36 TB, 72 TB, 108 TB, or 144 TB per
node

*Based on non-SSD configuration

Use case examples

Business analytics: Hadoop workflows

Large-scale home directories: Windows, Linux, and UNIX data environments

Healthcare: PACS medical imaging

Digital media: broadcast, post-production, and digital intermediate (DI)

Internet/Web 2.0: online video, audio, and image serving; Web analytics

Electronic design automation: design team collaboration, design libraries,

tool scripts, and design implementation databases

Despite the fact that we have nearly

one petabyte of data, the EMC Isilon
OneFS operating system is so easy
to manage, we dont need a dedicated
storage administrator. Aside from the
cost savings, were able to free up our
IT people to focus on other initiatives,
such as our virtualization
infrastructure.
John Lowell Wofford
Director of IT Services, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Columbia University

EMC ISILON NL-SERIES NODES

The EMC Isilon NL-Series is designed to provide cost-effective, highly scalable
nearline storage. To achieve this, the NL-Series combines high density and efficiency
with massive capacity capabilities. The result is a highly economical scale-out storage
solution at an extremely attractive price per TB of capacity and a low overall TCO.
Isilon also offers data at rest encryption (DARE) with self-encrypting drive (SED)
options with the NL-Series to meet rigorous data security and compliance
requirements.
CURRENT

NL400

PRODUCTS

CLUSTER CAPACITY 108 TB to over 20 PB

DENSITY

36 TB, 72 TB, 108 TB, or 144 TB per node

Use case examples

File archives: for economical storage and rapid disk-based access to reference
data to meet business and legal requirements (for example, financial services,
insurance, email, and general file data archiving)

Disaster recovery: when combined with Isilon SyncIQ replication software,

the NL-Series is a proven solution for organizations whose multisite replication
strategy requires an economical, high-capacity storage device to be located
remotely

Disk-to-disk backup: can be combined with deduplication technology from

other industry providers to deliver a highly scalable, reliable, easy-to-manage,
and economical disk-based backup target

EMC ISILON A-SERIES ACCELERATOR NODES

EMC Isilon A-Series accelerator nodes allow you to easily scale performance to meet
the specific needs of your business without adding capacity.
EMC Isilon A100 Backup AcceleratorThe Isilon A100 Backup Accelerator is
purpose built to accelerate the data backup process. This is especially important for
organizations facing shrinking backup windows that have the potential to negatively
impact business productivity. The Isilon A100 Backup Accelerator integrates easily
into an existing Isilon cluster, supports leading Network Data Management Protocol
(NDMP) data backup software products, and delivers backup speed of up to 1.7
terabytes per hour, while driving up to eight uncompressed LTO-5 or LTO-6 tape
drives.
EMC Isilon A100 Performance AcceleratorThe Isilon A100 Performance Accelerator
integrates seamlessly into any Isilon storage cluster to quickly increase processing
power, memory, bandwidth, and parallel read/write access capabilities. With the
A100 Performance Accelerator, you can reduce latency and increase concurrent
read throughput for a cached data set, while gaining the ability to scale performance
independent of capacity. Isilon A100 Performance Accelerator nodes provide an
aggregate throughput of 1,100 MB/s per node and allow you to accelerate cluster
operations, including disk and node rebuilds, file striping, and file-based replication.

EMC WORLD-CLASS SUPPORT SERVICES

MAXIMIZE THE VALUE OF YOUR INVESTMENT
Feel confident. We know that outstanding support is essential to the continued
success of your business. Thats why investment in an Isilon scale-out storage
solution is backed by a global team of support experts who are ready to respond
to any disruption to your storage environment.
We understand that responding to problems after they occur is no longer enough.
Potential issues must be anticipated and prevented to ensure the highest possible
performance, data availability, and operational efficiency. Thats the role of
EMC Support Services. Were here for you even before you need us.

COMPREHENSIVE BREAKTHROUGH
STORAGE SOLUTIONS
Through the winning combination of the groundbreaking EMC Isilon OneFS
operating system, high-performance industry-standard hardware, and powerful
data and storage management software, EMC Isilon provides a complete portfolio
of innovative storage solutions that drive business value for customers by
optimizing mission-critical applications, workflows, and processes. Isilon storage
enables enterprises and research organizations worldwide to manage large and
rapidly growing amounts of data in a highly scalable, easy-to-manage, and costeffective way.
Our innovative scale-out storage solutionsbuilt for agility, simplicity, and value
provide both a tiered storage approach for specialized needs and the ability to unify
digital workflows into a single high-performance, highly scalable shared pool of
storage. Every easy-to-manage Isilon solution is designed to accelerate workflow
productivity and reduce capital and operational expenditures, while seamlessly
scaling storage in lockstep with the growth of mission-critical data.

CONTACT US

TAKE THE NEXT STEP

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products, services, and solutions can
help solve your business and IT
challenges, contact your local
representative or authorized reseller
or visit us at www.EMC.com/Isilon.

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