Isilon Systems
NAS Recovery - Isilon Systems
Isilon Systems, Inc. designs and sells clustered storage system and software for digital content and other types of unstructured data. Isilon supplies products for storing and managing data file sets across various industries including media & entertainment, IC designing, manufacturing, content delivery, and telecommunications. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Technology
Isilon’s clustered storage system consists of three or more independent nodes. Each node contains hardware such as disk drives, CPU, memory chips and network interfaces. It is integrated with a proprietary operating system OneFS that unifies a cluster of nodes into a single shared resource.
OneFS, which is based on FreeBSD, features a file-striping functionality across each node in a cluster. It delivers up to 10GB/s of throughput. The OS also features a fully distributed lock manager, caching, fully distributed metadata and a remote block manager. All these functionalities help the software maintain synchronization and coherency across the cluster.
The nodes within the system communicate with each other over a dedicated back-end network using Infiniband or standard Gigabit Ethernet. Each node has the complete visibility and read/write access from the file system.
The clustered systems can be installed in standard data center environments. They are accessible to users and applications running Windows, Unix/Linux and Mac operating systems through appropriate file sharing protocols over standard Gigabit Ethernet.
Isilon released IQ 9000 and EX 9000 clustered storage products in 2007, offering the scalability of up to 1.6 petabytes in a single file system and single volume. In September 2008, the company expanded the capacity to 2.3 PB; and in March 2009, it raised it further to 3.4 PB.
