Unified Scale-Out Storage

Simplifying the Virtualized Data Center

Isilon’s unified scale-out storage makes complex storage administrative tasks simple and guarantees greater than 80% storage efficiency, making large-scale application consolidation and virtualized data centers a reality. With Isilon, enterprise file- and block-based applications can be consolidated onto a single pool of storage, simplifying data management, while increasing resource utilization and IT efficiency. Isilon is the only storage solution that eliminates storage sprawl and improves virtual server utilization with the flexibility of unified protocol support.

Simplicity at Any Scale

Consolidate both file- and block-based applications into a single pool of storage, eliminating the management burden of multiple islands of storage and different storage architectures (SAN and NAS). Unified, single point of administration for end-to-end data protection and management of both file and block applications.

Agility

Add capacity and/or performance without downtime or disruption for dynamic environments - when a storage node is added to an Isilon cluster the additional capacity, performance and connectivity is immediately available and shared across all virtualized data stores as well as file & block applications.  Provide uninterrupted access to storage with superior storage life-cycle management for both file and block applications by eliminating data migration and storage silos.

Unified, scale-out storage

With automated tiering within a single operating system and point of management, unified protocol support and on-demand scaling of performance and capacity, Isilon eliminates barriers to information.

  • Only Isilon delivers unified protocol support across iSCSI, NFS, CIFS and HTTP.
  • Isilon delivers high performance with over 1.7 million IOPS and 45 gigabytes per second of aggregate throughput, all from a single file system. Isilon also has SSD technology for metadata intensive operations and improves overall latency.
  • Industry partnerships. Isilon is certified as VMware Ready, and certified interoperability with Citrix, CommVault, Legato, Symantec and a wide range of enterprise-class networking, compute and backup technologies.

Discover Isilon solutions for virtualization and learn more about the OneFS Operating System that powers our unified, scale-out storage platform.

“With Isilon, we have the flexibility to support our VMware environment via both NFS and iSCSI, so we can power our block databases and NFS-based VMs from one solution. The ability to consolidate everything onto a single point of management has boosted application performance and reduced costs.” John Welter, vice president of technology, North West Group