#Dell #EMC shows off #Isilon All-Flash scale-out NAS array at first Dell EMC World; also extends EMC management and data protection to Compellent arrays.
AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Isilon, the last EMC primary storage system to go all-flash, will join the all-solid-state club in early 2017.
Dell EMC formally launched Isilon All-Flash today at Dell EMC World. The scale-out NAS platform is part of the flash strategy the storage behemoth will lay out at its first user conference since Dell's acquisition of EMC closed Sept. 7. Last week, Dell EMC added a #VMAX all-flash model along with inline compression and support for 15 TB solid-state drives (SSDs).
Also at the show, Dell EMC said EMC management and data protection applications will support Dell's SC (formerly Compellent) storage platforms.
EMC teased Isilon All-Flash as "Project Nitro" at EMC World in May but gave few details until today.
Unlike Isilon's hard disk drive (HDD) systems, Isilon All-Flash uses a bladed node architecture. A 4U Isilon All-Flash array is a four-node cluster with a capacity of 92 TB to 924 TB. Dell EMC claims a 4U chassis can deliver 250,000 IOPS and 15 GB per second of aggregate bandwidth. A scale-out cluster can support 100 systems with 400 nodes and 92.4 PB in a single file system and volume.
Isilon All-Flash can include 1.6 TB, 3.2 TB and 15 TB MLC SSDs. Each chassis holds 60 drives.
Isilon All-Flash runs the OneFS file system in Isilon's HDD arrays, and the flash systems can be clustered with all-HDD configurations to forge a hybrid cluster.
OneFS supports NFS, SMB, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), NDMP, FTP and object storage (through OpenStack Swift). Its SmartPools and CloudPools automated storage tiering capabilities will move data across SSD and HDD media.
Data will be tiered dynamically based on performance needs. "The hybrid approach allows customers to deploy just enough flash," said Sam Grocott, senior vice president of product management for Isilon.
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