TERM PAPER ON

ISILON S200
COURSE: Information Storage Management COURSE CODE:-CAP-663

SUBMITTED TO:LECT. KULJEET MAM ROLL NO.-A10 SECTION-

SUBMITTED BY:SRIKANT PODDAR

REGST NO.-10904925

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I take this opportunity to present my votes of thanks to all those guidepost who really acted as lightening pillars to enlighten our way throughout this project that has led to successful and satisfactory completion of this study. We are really grateful to our COD, Miss Kuljeet Kaur for providing us with an opportunity to undertake this project in this university and providing us with all the facilities. We are highly thankful for her active support, valuable time and advice, whole-hearted guidance, sincere cooperation and pains-taking

involvement during the study and in completing the assignment of preparing the said project within the time stipulated. Lastly, We are thankful to all those, particularly the various friends , who have been instrumental in creating proper, healthy and conductive environment and including new and fresh innovative ideas for us during the project, their help, it would have been extremely difficult for us to prepare the project in a time bound framework.

In April Isilon announced a major refresh their scale-out NAS architecture. They doubled their IOP number for a maximum cluster size of 144 nodes to 1.4M IOPs and doubled of their maximum throughput to 85GB/s. It is not just the power of Intel (Westmere/Nahalem upgrades) that has driven this performance increase but also the intelligent use of SSDs. By supporting HDDs and SSDs in the same enclosure and by placing the file metadata on SSD, performance gets a significant boost. The IOP number has not yet been submitted to SpecFS so the performance number is still unofficial.

With list pricing starting at $57,569 ($4.11/GB) for the S200 the value metric is not the traditional capacity view but $/IOP and $/MBs i.e. $6/IOP and $97/MBs respectively for the S200. With a starting price of $27,450/Node the X200 comes in at nearly $13/IOP and $110/MBs but has an attractive starting price of $1.14$/GB, even more attractive when their 80% utilization claim is factored in.

The latest announcement last week at EMCWorld increased the maximum supported single file system, single volume to 15PB plus support for 3TB HDDs on their capacity platform, the NL-108. Worth noting that this impressive scalability is only for the NL108 configured with 3TB drives. In comparison the higher performance X200 scalability tops out at 5.2PB.

Basic feature summary:

Feature S200 X200

Form Factor 2U 24 2.5 SAS, SSD 14TB 96GB 14TB 144 2U Maximum Drives 12 Drive Types 3.5 SATA, SSD Maximum Node Capacity 24TB Max Memory 48GB Global Coherent Cache 7TB Max Cluster Size 144 Protocols NFS, CIFS, FTP, HTTP, iSCSI (NFS 4.0, Native CIFS and Kerberized NFSv3 supported) Maximum IO/s 1,414,944 IO/s 84,960 MB/s $57,569/node 309,312 IO/s Maximum Throughput 35,712 MB/s List Price Starting at; $27,450/node

It is no secret that EMC is pushing the notion of Big Data and positioning Isilon and Atmos as the foundational technologies to deliver the needed local and cloud based big data storage. EMC is in the process of divorcing the notion of big data from the traditional thinking that it is restricted to

scientific HPC to include all large unstructured data sets including those increasingly found in enterprise environments. Front and center in Isilons promotional pitches are the advantages of scale-out namely, scalability, efficiency, ease of use and availability and are positioning themselves as the scale-out architecture that is integrated with capabilities that elevate it to enterprise class. This they believe serves them well in both their traditional space as well positioning them to penetrate the commercial HPC, Big Data space.

Expect to see a strong push by Isilon to broaden their enterprise data center footprint, the space that has so far been dominated by NetApp.

EMC's Isilon announced new network-attached storage (NAS) hardware and software aiming to become top contender in business intelligence through big data applications Isilon launched two new NAS arrays, the S200 and X200. The arrays will be able to use a combination of serial ATA (SATA), serial SCSI (SAS) or solid-state drives (SSDs) in a tiered configuration, affording variable degree of performance. Isilon's certification technology requires a minimum of three 2U (3.5-in. high) nodes to actualize a cluster; already an arrangement has been created; nodes can be added one at a time. Isilon additionally appear adaptation 6.5 of its OneFS operating system, which it said delivers bigger action and achievement for mission-critical abstracts centermost operations. The aggregation additionally appears it has absolutely chipped its SyncIQ 3.0 software with SnapshotIQ, alms abstracts archetype and accretion casework beneath a distinct user interface. Jonathan Young, chief carnality admiral of operations for Ancestry.com, said his aggregation witnessed a two to three times achievement advance back it activated Isilon's new versions of OneFS and SyncIQ. It cited the CIFS enhancements in OneFS for the improvements. "SyncIQ's use of snapshots decidedly bigger both the application's ability and its performance," he said. Isilon's new Isilon S200 arrangement is able of accomplishing 1.4 actor Network Book

Arrangement (NFS) operations per additional and 85GB/sec of accumulated throughput. The arrangement is aimed at accelerating admission to large, indexed abstracts food for architecture and simulation, agenda media, banking assay and aerial achievement accretion workflows. The S200 is powered by Intel's Xeon 5600 Quad Core processors with SSDs from STEC and Hitachi 2.5-in, 10,000rpm SAS drives. It additionally has bifold gigabit Ethernet and 10 gigabit Ethernet ports on the advanced end and bifold InfiniBand ports on the back-end. Anniversary 2U (3.5-in high) apparatus has up to 14.4TB of accommodation and 512MB of RAM. Isilon claims nodes can be added to an arrangement in about 60 seconds, ascent up to 2.1TB of deejay accommodation (144 nodes) beneath a distinct book name. The S200 and X200 arrays abutment Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX and Apple OS X clients. The new X200 arrangement boasts about 30GB/sec of accumulated throughput and can calibration from a distinct bulge with up to 24TB per bulge or 3.4PB of accommodation in a 144-node cluster. The box is aimed at big abstracts workflows in billow computing, activity sciences, Internet casework and all-embracing virtualized environments.

Scale-out Storage Platform Nodes

Isilon S200
Accelerate performance for highly-transactional, IOPS-intensive applications
Key Features

Over 1.6 million CIFS IOPS and

1.1 million NFS IOPS with over 85GBps of aggregate throughput

When ultimate IOPS performance is mission-critical, the Isilon S200 delivers. The Isilon S200 product line next-generation high performance 2U platform built on Isilon's proven unified scale-out storage technology accelerates business and increases speed-to-market by providing ultra-fast primary storage for your mission-critical, highly transactional, and random access file-based applications. Performance: The Isilon S200 surpasses the limits of traditional primary file storage, providing over 1.6 million CIFS IOPS and 1.1 million NFS IOPS with over 85 gigabytes per second (GBps) of aggregate throughput, all from a single file system. To accomplish these extraordinary speeds, the S200 combines the power of ultra-high performance solid state drive (SSD) and 10,000 RPM 2.5-inch Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drive technology, Quad 1GbE or dual 1GbE and dual 10GbE front-end networking, dual quad core Intel CPUs, a high-performance InfiniBand back-end, and up to 13.8 TB of globally coherent cache. In addition, the Isilon S200 leverages enterprise SSD technology to accelerate namespace-intensive metadata operations, and, also, provides an ability to place the mission critical, latency-sensitive data on SSDs in a SmartPools environment. Simplicity: The S200, built on the same principles of simplicity as all Isilon products, provides ultimate ease of use. You can install, configure and have an Isilon S200 cluster online in under 10 minutes, without the need for expensive, specialized integration and configuration services. Economics: With its impressive performance benchmarks, the Isilon S200 affords the best dollar per I/O solution available. And, with the proven high-utilization factor of Isilon scale-out storage over 80 percent versus 50 percent for traditional NAS and SAN overall storage

Up to 13.8 TB of globally coherent cache

Single file system and

global namespace

Namespace Operation
Acceleration via SSD

60-second on-the-fly scaling of capacity and performance Up to N+4 data protection, set at cluster, directory, or file level

Intelligent use of SSDs for metadata

and file-based storage workflows

Use Cases
The Isilon S200 is a highperformance enterprise solution, fit for a variety of applications and workflows, including:

efficiency is significantly improved while initial acquisition costs are greatly reduced.

Isilon S-Series Scale-out Storage Architecture: Exceptional performance for highly transactional and random access file-based applications
Compute Cluster

Digital Media: broadcast,

real-time streaming, rendering, and post production

Quota Management Thin Provisioning

SmartQuotas

S200

High Speed Replication Disaster Recovery Business Continuance

SyncIQ

IQ NL-Series

Design & Simulation:

simulation, verification, and analysis of electronic and mechanical systems, design for manufacturability, and analysis requiring fast scratch storage

Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Apple Clients

Network

WAN/LAN

SmartConnect

Load Balancing Seamless Failover Performance Zones

Application Layer Primary Storage

SnapshotIQ

Instant Recovery Data Protection

Nearline Storage

Isilon S200 Product Specifications

Product Attributes
Scale-out Architecture Modular Design Operating System High Availability Scalability Data Protection Data Replication Data Retention Network Protocol Support Client Support Isilon Software Compatibility Truly distributed, fully symmetric clustered architecture that combines modular storage nodes with Isilon's intelligent software. Self-contained nodes include server, software, and disks in a 2U rack-mountable node. Sixth generation of Isilon OneFS distributed file system. Creates a cluster with a single file system and single global namespace. Fully journaled, fully distributed, globally coherent write/read cache. No single point of failure. Self-healing design protects against disk or node failure. Includes backend intra-cluster failover. Initial cluster setup in under 10 minutes. Add performance and capacity in 60 seconds. Up to 2.1 PB and 85 GBps throughput. FlexProtect file-level striping with support for N+1 through N+4 and mirroring data protection schemes. SyncIQ fast and flexible file-based asynchronous replication. SmartLock policy-based retention and protection against accidental deletion. NFSv3, NFSv4, NFS Kerberized Sessions (UDP or TCP), iSCSI, SMB1 (CIFS), SMB2, HTTP, FTP, NDMP, SNMP, LDAP, ADS, NIS reads/writes. Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, Apple Macintosh. Compatible with all Isilon licensable software: SmartLock, Isilon for vCenter, SyncIQ, SnapshotIQ, SmartConnect, SmartQuotas, SmartPools, InsightIQ and Aspera for Isilon IQ.

Environmental Specifications
Power Supply Operating Environment Dimension/Weight Minimum Service Clearances Dual redundant, hot-swappable 760W power supplies with Power Factor Correction (PFC) 50 F to 95 F (10 C to 35 C), 5% to 95% relative humidity, non-condensing Height: 3.48" (8.8 cm), Width: 18.87" (47.9 cm), Depth: 28.5" (72.4 cm), Weight: 48.8 lbs / 22.1 kg Front: 35" (89.0 cm), Rear: 14" (35.6 cm)

Isilon S200 Node Attributes &O pti ons Base Capacity (HDD/SSD) Hard Drives (2.5" SAS) Solid State Drives (SLC) 200GB ECC Memory (FBDiMM cache) Front-end Networking CPU Type Infrastructure Networking Non-volatile RAM (NVRAM) Typical Power Consumption @ 100v Typical Power Consumption @ 240v Typical Thermal Rating 7.2TB 24 0 24GB 4 copper 1000 Base-T (GigE)

300GB Option 1 6.9TB/200GB 23 1 Option 2 5.4TB/1.2TB 18 6 Base 14.4TB 24 0 24GB 4 copper 1000 Base-T (GigE)

600GB Option 1 13.2TB/400GB 22 2 Option 2 10.8TB/1.2TB 18 6

24GB, 48GB or 96GB 4 x GigE (Copper) OR 2 x GigE and 2 x 10GigE (SFP+ or Twin-ax Copper)

24GB, 48GB or 96GB 4 x GigE (Copper) OR 2 x GigE and 2 x 10GigE (SFP+ or Twin-ax Copper)

Dual Intel Westmere (quad core) processors per node 2 InfiniBand connections 512 MB 450W 456W 1,550 BTU/hr

Isilon's Comprehensive Storage Solutions... Powerful, Yet Simple

The Isilon S-Series product line, along with the Isilon X-Series and NL-Series product lines, provide a complete portfolio of innovative solutions that drive business value for customers by optimizing their mission-critical applications, workflows, and processes. Isilon 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.