Isilon “Back to Basics” Blog Series
Welcome to my new blog! Thanks for stopping by to have a look. I have been going back and forth on a post to kick off my new blogspace here at vblurbs when it occurred to me that I’ve been spending...
View ArticleIsilon “Back to Basics” Series – Part 1: Isilon Overview
What is Isilon? Isilon is a scale-out NAS solution with Big Data in mind and simplicity at its core. One feature of Isilon that we’ll talk more about later is that it doesn’t use RAID protection....
View ArticleIsilon “Back to Basics” Series – Part 2: Isilon & Infiniband
Infiniband Isilon uses Infiniband (IB) for a super-fast, micro-second latency, backend network that serves as the backbone of the Isilon cluster. Depending on the model of IB switch you are using,...
View ArticleIsilon “Back to Basics” Series – Part 3: Configuring an Isilon Cluster
Information Gathering Just like in cooking, a good chef takes a moment to gather the ingredients before diving in. A little “mise en place” goes a long way and makes the task at hand that much more...
View ArticleIsilon “Back to Basics” Series – Part 4: FlexProtect Data Protection
No More RAID As mentioned in my first post of this series, Isilon Overview, hardware-based RAID data protection is not used in Isilon. Instead, OneFS uses the Reed-Solomon erasure coding algorithm for...
View ArticleIsilon “Back to Basics” Series – Part 5: Advanced Features
Additional Licensing Required Isilon comes with some cool standard features, such as SmartConnect Basic, right out-of-the-box. As with most things in IT, if you want the really cool stuff you will...
View ArticleIsilon shares replication using Superna Eyeglass for Isilon (v1.3)
I have been spending a fair amount of time checking out Superna’s Eyeglass for Isilon in my home lab. Over the past year or so, I have run into the same question when it comes to Isilon’s SyncIQ...
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