A four node F800 Isilon cluster running OneFS 8.2.1 has a dedicated subnet and IP pool for SMB data traffic.
SmartConnect Advanced license is applied. The SMB IP pool consists of LACP aggregated. 10GigE interfaces from all the nodes.
What is the maximum number of SmartConnect Service IPs recommended for the SMB subnet?
Which type(s) of data is predominately associated with home directories and file shares?
A customer is considering moving their NAS data over to Isilon systems. They want to know what limitations Isilon has regarding snapshot on the directory level.
What explanation can be provided to the customer?
A NetApp customer is considering Isilon. They use their filers for UNIX home directories, and would like to see a suggested configuration that would meet their needs.
What would you do to help size this cluster?
A customer is making a decision between Isilon and a competitor’s offering. They currently have 100TB of usable capacity and are forecasting 100% growth per year for the next three years, which will require them to lease additional space in their co-located data center. The CFO finds ROI and TCO to be important decision criteria.
Which statement best emphasizes the value of Isilon for this customer?
A telecommunications company has a substantial amount of data. This data is being created by network elements within their environment.
The company wants to change the way the network elements Call Detail Records (CDR) are stored and analyzed. The existing infrastructure consolidates all of the CDRs into a table structure, and then ingests them into a large database. Once ingested, a query engine accesses the database and performs analysis on these files. The system is functional; however, since the amount of CDRs generated will increase exponentially over the next year, the company is open to alternatives for storing and analyzing these records.
In evaluating alternatives, the key requirements are to reduce cost, the amount of storage, and the amount of time to analyze the data. The customer would like to use Hadoop to analyze the CDRs.
After you have conducted an assessment of the workflow, you have recommended an Isilon Cluster to work within the Hadoop environment.
Which protocols would be the best fit when using Isilon for this customer's Hadoop workflow?
A 6 × F800 node Isilon cluster has one subnet with two IP pools with LACP aggregated 10GigE interfaces from
all the nodes in the ‘Data-Zone’ Access Zone. The ‘NFS-Pool’ with dynamic IP Allocation schema and ‘SMBPool’
with static IP Allocation schema are being used.
All the Linux clients are accessing Isilon exports using NFSv3 via the ‘NFS_Pool’. All the Windows clients are
accessing Isilon shares using SMBv3 via the ‘SMB_Pool’.
While deploying Isilon, the customer reserves the whole network subnet for Isilon. The customer is facing
performance issues with a new workload that is accessing the Isilon via Kerberized NFSv4.
What is recommended when creating a new IP pool for NFSv4 clients?
What is the overhead impact on the physical capacity when configuring data protection at +2:1 on a 6-node Isilon cluster?
TESTED 23 Feb 2025
