A customer has eight X400 24GB RAM that supports 400 client connections today The customer plans to add 400 more clients in the next few months. They are looking at adding an A-Series node to the cluster to help with client connections.
Before they start adding client connections, what hardware change do you recommend?
If snapshots are configured for the InsightIQ datastore on Isilon and the datastore is reverted to a previous snapshot, what might be the result?
An existing customer has two NAS systems providing NFS storage in their main datacenter - one is an Isilon cluster and the second is an array from another vendor. Both systems are four years old, and the customer would like to consolidate the storage into a single solution. According to the customer, both systems support identical workloads with similar performance and utilization, and they want the new solution to support 50% performance growth.
Which method can model the workload requirements, and what multiplier will capture the requirements for the new solution?
You meet a customer for the first time. They explain that their current environment for NAS does not meet their needs. You want to make sure that Isilon is a good fit for their needs.
What would be a good prequalifying question to ask?
Your customer's site uses an old X-Series cluster, and they are interested in consolidating their two primary workflows. iostat shows that one of the applications is sensitive to latency, while isi statistics indicates sensitivity to disk response times. There are approximately 1000 users accessing 70 TB of file data.
Which node type would you recommend?
A potential customer uses a solution from an EMC competitor for NFS storage in their main data center. The existing arrays are five years old, and the customer would like to consolidate them into a single new system. The entire workload is generated by eight Linux hosts connected to the arrays that process video files. The customer informs you they are not able to collect performance information from the existing arrays.
Which tools can capture the workload requirements?
In what order does an Isilon Gen 6 cluster respond to a client file read request?
Which OneFS feature enables you to host multiple tenants from mutually untrusting AD authentication environments from the same DNS namespace?
What is the correct sequence of events in a SyncIQ failover procedure after a failure occurs in the source Isilon cluster?
TESTED 23 Feb 2025
