OneFS Operating System:

The Engine That Powers Isilon’s Scale-Out NAS Solutions Isilon’s fifth-generation OneFS® operating system provides the intelligence behind all Isilon® IQ scale-out NAS solutions. Through the fusion of OneFS, state-of-the-art engineering, and enterprise industry-standard hardware, Isilon delivers highly scalable, ultra-high performance, modular scale-out NAS systems. OneFS drives process and workflow acceleration, enables virtually unlimited growth, provides the highest levels of data protection available, and allows storage administrators to do more with less.

Simplicity and Agility Through Innovation

Change is inevitable; that’s why every 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—providing a true pay-as-you-grow approach and the ability to scale-out as business needs dictate. Within 60 seconds, you can add capacity and performance—up to 5.2 petabytes and up to 45 GBps of throughput and up to 1.7 million IOPS in a single file system.

Efficiency and Cost Savings

Orchestrated by OneFS, all components in an Isilon cluster work in concert to create a unified pool of highly-efficient storage—with a proven 80 percent storage utilization rate (versus 50 percent for traditional systems). Isilon’s high efficiency means less physical storage is required to house the same amount of data—reducing both initial capital outlay and ongoing costs. And, with the OneFS autobalance feature you can quickly and easily add nodes without downtime, manual data migration, or application logic reconfiguration, saving precious IT resources. In fact, Isilon’s ease-of- management requires less than one FTE per petabyte, further reducing overall storage costs.

Enterprise Application Software

Massive stores of file-based data present unique management challenges including disaster recovery, quota management, and off-site replication. Isilon’s specialized applications are designed specifically for large, clustered storage environments.

• SmartQuotas™ — Data Management Quotas and thin provisioning for clustered storage
• SyncIQ™ — Data Replication Fast and flexible file-based asynchronous replication
• SnapshotIQ™ — Data Protection Simple, scalable, and flexible data protection
• SmartConnect™ — Data Access Policy-based load balancing with failover

The Hardware Platforms: Three Flexible Product Lines

Isilon offers a full spectrum of highly-flexible scale-out NAS solutions that provide precisely the right storage on a “pay-as-you-grow” basis. All Isilon hardware platforms are built upon the same innovative Isilon clustered storage architecture—designed for simplicity, value, best-in-class performance and unmatched reliability. Isilon’s platform offerings include three flexible product lines tailored for specific business needs.

Hardware Extension Nodes

Standard IQ storage nodes, the foundation of the various platforms, allow linear scaling—as capacity is added, performance is simultaneously increased. Extension nodes allow for independent scaling of either capacity or performance, delivering the agility your business requires to quickly react to ever changing performance and capacity needs.