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DELL EMC ISILON ONEFS OPERATING

SYSTEM
Scale-out NAS to maximize the data capital and business
value of your unstructured data
THE ONEFS OPERATING SYSTEM
ESSENTIALS
The OneFS operating system provides the intelligence behind all Isilon scale-out storage
• Easy-to-use, single volume, systems. It combines the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system,
single file system architecture volume manager, and data protection—into one unified software layer, creating a single
• Scales from 10s of terabytes to intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster.
10s of petabytes of capacity
• Seamless integration of flash,
hard disk and cloud
• Massively efficient including
deduplication and compression
• Multiprotocol support to
maximize operational flexibility
• Enterprise data protection and
resiliency
• Robust security and data The OneFS operating system provides a massively scalable, high-performance, modular
encryption options storage architecture that can grow easily with your business. With built-in interoperability,
OneFS can help you accelerate a wide range of processes and workflows, while providing
• Flash scale performance
the highest levels of security and data protection available. With OneFS, you can
• Seamless deployment at the eliminate data silos, consolidate all your data into a data lake and extend the data lake to
edge, data center and cloud the cloud and to enterprise edge locations. OneFS enables you to consolidate and
• Maximize data capital to manage data more effectively, easily gain cloud-scale storage capacity, reduce overall
storage costs, increase data protection and security, and simplify management of
increase business value
unstructured data. You can easily gain insights into your data and maximize the data
capital of your investments.

EASE OF USE FOR STREAMLINED MANAGEMENT

OneFS has been designed to simplify administration activities and maintain this simplicity
as you scale your storage system. OneFS is a single file system, single volume
architecture, which makes it extremely easy to manage, regardless of the number of
nodes in your storage cluster. Storage systems powered by OneFS are simple to install,
manage, and scale to virtually any size whether you use all flash or hard disk storage or
any combination in between.

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MASSIVE SCALABILITY FOR GROWING BIG DATA
ENVIRONMENTS
In contrast to stand-alone storage systems that must “scale up” when additional
performance or capacity is needed, OneFS enables a storage system to “scale out,” OneFS
seamlessly increasing the existing file system or volume into petabytes of capacity. A
storage system can grow up to 252 nodes and can scale to petabytes of storage in a
single file system. OneFS allows a storage system to grow symmetrically or
independently as more space or processing power is required—providing a grow-as-you-

Ethernet or Infiniband Network

go approach and the ability to scale out as your business needs dictate.
Flash
Increasing the storage capacity and performance capabilities of a cluster can be I/Ops
accomplished quickly and easily. Nodes can be added to the file system and be ready to
use in minutes—versus a traditional file system, which can take hours to install, configure,
and provision. With OneFS, you can quickly and easily add nodes without downtime or
manual data migration, thereby saving precious IT resources. OneFS also provides Hybrid
automatic non-disruptive disk firmware upgrades to facilitate lights-out operations. OneFS Throughput
provides non-disruptive upgrades with no loss of connectivity during the upgrade process.
In addition, OneFS provides rollback capability that will allow the administrators to perform
an upgrade and then decide if they want to revert or rollback the upgrade. This non-
disruptive upgrade feature of OneFS minimizes the user impact and enables continuous Archive
availability during the upgrade process. Upgrades can be paused and resumed to Capacity
accommodate and span maintenance windows. Patches can be installed as a post-reboot
activity associated with an upgrade.

UNMATCHED EFFICIENCY AND COST SAVINGS

OneFS utilizes an AutoBalance function to automatically reallocate and rebalance data and make storage space more usable and
efficient. AutoBalance eliminates on-disk hot spots automatically and enables the storage systems to provide up to 80 percent
utilization with a single pool of shared storage. To further increase storage efficiency, SmartDedupe offers a data deduplication option,
reducing storage requirements by up to 35 percent in environments with redundant data across multiple sources. This industry-leading
storage efficiency, combined with the simple and easy-to-manage OneFS operating system, helps you to reduce capital expenditures
as well as ongoing operating costs. The F810 all-flash platform delivers high-speed inline data compression and deduplication to
increase effective storage capacity by up to 3:1 and reduce data center footprint.
With SmartPools software, you can further optimize your storage for performance and economy using automated storage tiering and a
policy-based approach to automatically move inactive data to more cost-effective storage. With a choice of flash or hard disk, your
choice of storage can flexibly meet your business needs. This streamlines workflows for your most current data while remaining
completely transparent to users and applications.
With CloudPools software, you can seamlessly integrate your cluster to the cloud for your cold or frozen data. CloudPools provides you
virtually unlimited amount of storage by tiering inactive files to your choice of public or private cloud options including Microsoft Azure,
Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Federal C2S clouds, Alibaba Aliyun, Dell EMC ECS, Dell EMC Virtustream, or Isilon.

SIMPLE AND FLEXIBLE INTEROPERABILITY FOR BUSINESS AGILITY

OneFS provides integrated support for a wide range of industry-standard protocols, including Internet Protocols IPv4 and IPv6, network
file system (NFS), Server Message Block (SMB), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), REST-based
Object access for your cloud initiatives and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for fast and efficient in-place analytics. This allows
you to greatly simplify and consolidate workflows, increase flexibility and get more value from your enterprise applications. With
OneFS, you can streamline your storage infrastructure by consolidating large-scale file and unstructured data assets, as well as
eliminate silos of storage. With this scale-out data lake approach, you can efficiently store and manage data that supports a wide range
of applications for both traditional workloads as well as emerging workloads like AI/ML, deep learning, mobile computing and Hadoop
analytics.
Native HDFS support on OneFS helps you address your Big Data storage and business analytics needs to maximize the data capital
and provide you a competitive edge. This means that with your storage you can readily use your Hadoop data with other enterprise

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applications and workloads while eliminating the need to manually move data around or manage a dedicated infrastructure that is not
integrated with or connected to any other applications. This integration simplifies your business analytics initiatives and helps you
leverage results faster. OneFS includes support for a number of commercial Hadoop deployments from vendors like Pivotal, Cloudera,
IBM, and Hortonworks. OneFS also support Apache Ambari for provisioning, management, and monitoring of Hadoop environments,
Navigator for governance in Cloudera environments and Ranger for authentication management by Hadoop administrators. OneFS
now includes support for HDFS TDE to provide transparent end to end data encryption for increased security.
To provide a robust control interface for your storage systems, OneFS incorporates a platform API that directly interfaces with the file
system and allows you to gain an even more robust control interface to the cluster. The platform API is a REST-based HTTP interface
for automation, orchestration, and provisioning of a cluster. With the platform API, third-party applications can be used to control the
administrative capabilities within OneFS, thereby further simplifying management, data protection, and provisioning. An SDK is
published and continuously updated on github for rapid tool development and easy integration into your existing management
frameworks.
These levels of interoperability are designed to help you leverage your large data assets more flexibly with a broad range of
applications and workloads, as well as across a diverse IT infrastructure environment.

REACH NEW LEVELS OF PERFORMANCE

To support your most demanding file applications and workloads, OneFS powered solutions deliver up to 15.8 million file IOPS and
945 GB/s concurrent throughput per cluster. This allows data to be ingested and delivered very quickly to high-performance
applications and servers.
A large-scale storage system must provide the performance required for a variety of workflows, whether they be sequential,
concurrent, or random. Different workflows will exist between applications and within individual applications. OneFS provides for all of
these needs simultaneously with intelligent software. Another important advantage of the storage is that throughput and I/O per second
scale linearly with the number of nodes present in a single system. This means that as your storage environment grows, performance
increases linearly, unlike traditional systems.
To drive increased performance for workloads that have a lot of random read I/O, OneFS enables a scale-out flash tier. Because the
scale-out flash tier is self-configuring and self-optimizing, it is extremely easy to set up and requires little or no administrative overhead.
In addition, you can deploy a complete flash solution with all-flash hardware platforms for massive performance to support your most
demanding file workloads.
OneFS supports SMB 3.0 Multi-Channel which allows a suitably configured Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 or later client to
connect to a cluster and take advantage of the enhanced performance and reliability capabilities. OneFS also supports SMB 3.0
Continuous Availability protocol to provide non-disruptive operations for Windows clients. SmartFlash software enables caching of
metadata and data blocks on SSDs to accelerate overall performance.

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Scale capacity and performance linearly with OneFS

DATA PROTECTION FOR RESILIENCY AND HIGH AVAILABILITY

OneFS includes a core technology, FlexProtect, which utilizes Reed-Solomon encoding to provide redundancy and data availability.
FlexProtect provides protection for up to four simultaneous failures of either full nodes or individual drives. This goes far beyond the
maximum level of RAID commonly in use today, which is the double-failure protection of RAID 6.
Because the FlexProtect feature in OneFS is file aware, it also provides file-specific protection capabilities. An individual file or
directory can be given a specific protection level, and different portions of the file system can be protected at levels aligned to the
importance of the data or workflow. Critical data can be protected at a higher level, whereas less critical data can be protected at a
lower level. This provides storage administrators with a very granular protection/capacity trade-off that can be adjusted dynamically as
a cluster scales and a workflow ages.
FlexProtect has been enhanced with OneFS to provide additional levels of protection for large capacity drives to improve storage
efficiency while protecting data from failures. In addition, automatic monitoring and alerting when storage protection levels fall below a
specified threshold provides administrators increased peace of mind from under protected clusters. OneFS includes file blocking for
increased security, SMB3 over-the-wire encryption for improved reliability, optimized SyncIQ data replication with encryption, and
enterprise-grade event logging and alerting.
OneFS incorporates several strategies for data protection including snapshots for backup and recovery and data replication for
disaster recovery protection. OneFS snapshots are highly scalable and typically take less than one second to create. They create little
performance overhead, regardless of the level of activity of the file system, the size of the file system, or the size of the directory being
copied. Also, only a file's changed blocks are stored when updating the snapshots, which helps ensure highly efficient snapshot
storage utilization.
SnapshotIQ software can be used to create up to 1,024 snapshots per directory, thereby offering significantly improved recovery-point
objective (RPO) timeframes. OneFS also provides near-immediate restoration of snapshot data backups to recover data quickly. With
OneFS, snapshot restores are fast, efficient, and simple.
For your disaster recovery protection, SyncIQ software combine to deliver high-performance asynchronous replication of data that
addresses a broad range of RPOs and recovery time objectives (RTOs). This solution is easily optimized for either LAN or WAN
connectivity to replicate over short or long distances, thereby providing protection from both site-specific and regional disasters. With
bandwidth throttling that is set on a per policy basis, fine-grained control is available.
To reduce replication times between clusters and increase efficiency, SyncIQ enables file splitting to allow large files to be partitioned
across multiple threads and replicated in parallel. File sub-ranges can be divided and split across multiple threads resulting in shorter
replication cycles.

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OneFS further simplifies and accelerates disaster recovery and business continuity at scale with integrated and push-button simple
failover and failback. With faster, easier failover and failback capabilities, most workflows will produce dramatic improvements in sync
times. The same workflow will also be able to perform multiple syncs in the same time for “fresher” target data.

Each of these enhanced data protection capabilities will help you reduce both the RPO and RTO of mission-critical applications.

ROBUST SECURITY OPTIONS

To help you meet your corporate governance and compliance requirements, OneFS includes robust security options that offer
unprecedented levels of scale-out NAS security.
SmartLock software combine to provide write once, read many (WORM) data protection, which prevents the accidental, premature, or
malicious alteration or deletion of your critical data. With OneFS, we also help you meet regulatory and governance needs—including
stringent SEC Rule 17a-4 requirements—by providing tamper-proof data retention and protection of your business-critical data. You
can seamlessly failover and failback your compliance data with SyncIQ integration.
OneFS also includes a file system audit capability for SMB and NFS protocols to improve security and control of your storage
infrastructure and address important regulatory and compliance requirements. With this audit capability, you will be able to determine
which users are accessing specific files, and control and manage file access permissions more effectively. File System audit events
can also be forwarded to syslog or the Dell EMC Common Event Enabler for filtering and analysis.
To further enhance security, OneFS incorporates roles-based administration control (RBAC) capabilities, which you can use to
establish a secure role separation between storage administration and file system access, thereby preventing malicious or accidental
changes to your data. RBAC capabilities can now be provided per access zone to deliver increased security with maximum flexibility.
With these capabilities, a web UI allows you to controls the creation, delegation, setting, and changing the roles and providing
simplicity of operations. Administrators may also use this to determine permissions on a specific file or directory and provide enhanced
troubleshooting capability.
OneFS also enables you to create authentication or access zones that provide secure, isolated storage pools for specific departments
within your organization. This also allows you to consolidate storage resources for increased operational efficiency without
compromising organizational security. With OneFS, access zones provide support for an HDFS namespace for each access zone.
This means you can run multiple separate HDFS namespaces in the same cluster. OneFS also introduces support for access zones
for the NFS protocol.
OneFS further extends these robust security options with HDFS Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), Security and Technical
Implementation Guide (STIG) hardening, multi-factor authentication, CAC/PIV Smartcard authentication, and FIPS OpenSSL support.
OneFS enables the use of Data-at-Rest Encryption (DARE) with industry-standard self-encrypting drives (SEDs) in nodes. DARE
protects against drive theft or loss by keeping data encrypted on drives. OneFS enables data to be securely erased before drives are
repurposed or retired by shredding encryption keys. In addition, support for SMB3 encryption between Windows clients and the
storage provides tightened security for in-flight traffic.
Cryptographic erasure to wipe data can be done in a matter of seconds. DARE also helps you address important data security
regulatory requirements, including the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). Instant Secure Erase capabilities
enable you to cryptographically wipe out a failed drive which may need to be returned to the vendor.
To further increase the protection and security of in-flight data, OneFS provides encryption for clients that support the SMBv3 protocol
version. This can be configured on a per-share, zone or cluster-wide basis.

HIGHLY VERSATILE STORAGE PLATFORM

OneFS powered systems support a wide range of enterprise file applications and workloads. You have a choice of all-flash, hybrid
platforms, and archive hardware platforms that can all be combined into a single cluster. To optimize storage resources and lower
costs, you can automatically tier data across all-flash, hybrid or archive nodes and to a choice of cloud service providers. A highly
dense modular architecture provides four nodes within a single 4U chassis and that can scale up to 252 nodes per cluster.

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