ISILON SCALE-OUT
NAS OVERVIEW
AND FUTURE
DIRECTIONS
Ryan Sayre
CTO-at-Large, EMEA
EMC Isilon
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Agenda
Isilon Momentum
Big Data & Enterprise IT Converge To
Deliver Next-Generation Applications
New Isilon Scale-Out Products & Solutions
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EMC Isilon Momentum
60% Y/Y
GROWTH In 2012
>6X NetApp’s
Growth Rate
In NAS
Largest Capacity
EMC Deal In
History At 28PB
“We highlight strength in
EMC's mid-range portfolio
which grew 24% y/y due
to Isilon…”
X
42PB
Isilon #1 Scale-Out NAS Market (Gartner & IDC)
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Gartner Scale-out NAS Critical Capabilities Survey
EMC Isilon
 Isilon Was The Only Vendor
To Receive An “Outstanding”
Rating…
 “Among the products
evaluated, Isilon stands out in
capacity, performance,
manageability and
resiliency.”
Gartner Scale-out NAS Critical Capabilities Survey, February, 2013
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Isilon Scale-Out NAS
 Simple And Easy To Use - Single File System, Single Volume
 Massively Scalable – From 18 TB To Over 20 PB
 World’s Fastest NAS - 1.6M SPECsfs And Over 100 GB/S Throughput
 Unmatched Efficiency – Over 80% Utilization And Automated Tiering
 Highly Resilient - Survives Multiple Failures
 Robust Data Protection And Security Options
 Operational Flexibility – Multi-protocol Support
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Isilon
Scale-out NAS Product Family
S-Series
Purpose-built For IOPsintensive, Random Access,
File-based Applications
Linear Scaling Of Performance And Capacity
X-Series
NL-Series
Flexible Solution For High
Concurrent And Sequential
Throughput Applications
Ideal For Cost-effective,
Large-capacity Storage
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Isilon Core Innovation
OneFS Scale-out Operating System
Single File System
Simplicity
High Performance
Automated Tiering
Leadership Efficiency
Easy Growth
Linear Scalability
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AutoBalance: “Using Software to do
Work Unfit for Humans”
AutoBalance
BALANCED
EMPTY
Automated data balancing across nodes reduces
costs, complexity and risks for scaling storage
FULL
BALANCED
EMPTY
FULL
BALANCED
EMPTY
FULL
BALANCED
EMPTY
FULL
BALANCED
EMPTY
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• AutoBalance migrates content to
new storage nodes while system is
online and in production
• NO manual intervention,
NO reconfiguration, and
NO server or client mount point or
application changes
• Eliminates “Hot Spots”
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Optimize Data With SmartPools Automated Tiering
I/Ops
MB/s
Archive
Reduced cost/TB
• Single point of management
– Single file system
– Single volume
– Tiers of performance
I/Ops
I/Ops
I/Ops
I/Ops
Throughput
Throughput
Throughput
Throughput
Throughput
Throughput
NL Archive
NL Archive
NL Archive
NL Archive
NL Archive
NL Archive
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Innovation
• Automatic data movement
– Policy-based movement
– Transparent reallocation
– NO application-changes
• Investment protection
–
–
–
–
Eliminate data migration
Scale any application
Completely transparent
Pay as you grow
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Comprehensive Enterprise Software
DATA PROTECTION
DATA MANAGEMENT
SnapshotIQ
SmartPools
SyncIQ
SmartQuotas
Fast, Efficient Data Backup And Recovery
Fast And Flexible Asynchronous Replication For
Disaster Recovery Protection
SmartConnect
Policy-based Automated Tiering
Quota Management And Thin Provisioning
InsightIQ
Policy-based Client Failover With Load Balancing
Performance Monitoring And Reporting To Manage
Storage Resources
SmartLock
Isilon for vCenter
Policy-based WORM Data Protection
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VMware Integrated Management Features
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The Cost Advantage Of Isilon
Ease Of Use And Management Simplicity
FTE Hours per TB in Use
Uploading Or Re-loading Data
Adding New Applications
Space Reclamation
Managing Backup
Managing Capacity
Storage Provisioning
Storage Allocation
Isilon
Traditional
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
IDC: Isilon Improves IT Productivity By 48%, Reduces OPEX*
* Source: “Quantifying the Business Benefits of Scale-Out NAS Solutions,” IDC White Paper, November 2011
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Isilon Growing Momentum
3750+ Customers
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Isilon OneFS 7.0 Operating System
Continuing To Invest In New Capabilities
Scalability
 Performance
– Improved Throughput
– Reduced Latency
 Capacity
– SnapshotIQ File Clones
– 20 PB File System Ready
 Extensibility
– REST Platform API
Enterprise
 Multi-Tenancy
– Authentication Zones
– Role Based Administration
 VMware
– Reduced I/O Latency
– VAAI, VASA, SRM
 Security and Archive
– SmartLock v2 (SEC17a-4)
Out
Today
Management
 Data Protection
– SyncIQ: Failover/Back
– SnapshotIQ File Clones
 Automated
Provisioning
– Improved Efficiency
– Higher Reliability
 Availability
– Upgrade - 2 Minutes
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Today…Two Storage Worlds Converge…
BIG
DATA
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Enterprise
@Scale
Enterprise
IT
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Applications
Enterprise Storage Needs Are Evolving
MOBILE
Enterprise
@Scale
CLOUD
Storage
infrastructure
FILE
APPLICATIONS
ANALYTICS
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Applications
Enterprise Storage Needs Are Evolving
MOBILE
FILE
APPLICATIONS
Storage
infrastructure
EASY
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ANALYTICS
Enterprise
@Scale
SCALABLE
CLOUD
SECURE
EFFICIENT
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Applications
Meeting The Challenge Of Next-gen Apps
MOBILE
Storage
infrastructure
FILE
APPLICATIONS
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FTP
ANALYTICS
Enterprise
@Scale
CIFS
CLOUD
NFS
Syncplicity
HTTP HDFS Object REST
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Mobility: Online File Sharing (OFS)
Key Features
+
 Integrated Online File
Sharing W/EMC Syncplicity
 End-to-End EMC solution
 Isilon Scale-Out For Secure,
On-premise Storage
Benefits
 Seamless Enterprise File
Sharing
 Any Device, Anywhere,
Anytime Access
 All The Benefits Of
Isilon—Scale, Ease Of
Use And Efficiency
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Next-Gen Analytics
Key Features
 Hadoop 2.0
 Native HDFS Support
 Pivotal HD Support
MOBILE
ANALYTICS
 Simultaneous HDFS 1.0
& HDFS 2.0 Support
 Distributed NameNode
Benefits
 Support For Open
Hadoop Applications
 No Single Point Of Failure
 Improved TCO
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Isilon Integrated Cloud
Key Features
 Multi-protocol Native Access
To Files & Objects
Platform
API
REST OBJECT
ACCESS
REST OBJECT
ACCESS
 REST-based OBJECT Access
 REST-based Platform API
 Same High Performance As
FILE Access
Benefits
 Leverage Old & New
Applications Together
 All The Benefits Of OneFS
Data Services
 Automated Provisioning And
Management Of Isilon
Storage
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EMC Software-Defined Storage
Key Features
 Consolidate File & Objects
On A Single System
Atmos
 REST API’s For:
 Atmos
 Amazon S3
EMC Software-Defined Storage
 OpenStack Swift
Benefits
 Isilon’s Simplicity, Scalability,
Efficiency & TCO Delivered
For Object Applications
 Flexible Data Access &
Movement
 Heterogeneous Storage
Support
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Applications
Impending: Next Release Of OneFS 7.1
MOBILE
ENTERPRISE
APPLICATIONS
Storage
infrastructure
EASY
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ANALYTICS
Enterprise
@Scale
SCALABLE
CLOUD
SECURE
EFFICIENT
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Deduplication
Key Features
 Post-process
 8K Block Design
 Cluster-wide & Directory
Level Granularity
A
101
B
102
C
103
D
104
C
FREE
105
D
FREE
106
X
107
Y
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 Pre-process Test Support
Benefits
 Storage Efficiency
 30% Less…
FILE_1
FILE_2
 Storage Capacity
 Power & Cooling
 Rack Space
 Improved TCO
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Audit Security
Key Features
 SMB/CIFS Support
 EMC Plug-in
Event Logger (CEE)
 Varonis And Other 3rd
Party Audit Sol’n Support
 Sarbanes-Oxley & HIPAA
Benefits
 Financial Services,
Healthcare And More
 Regulatory Compliant
Scale-out Storage
 Improved Security And
Tight Change Control
Management
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Availability
AVAILABLE NOW
LATER IN 2013…
Hadoop 2.0
Software
Defined
Storage
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