EMC Isilon scale-out storage provides massive scalability and unmatched performance with industry-leading reliability, self-healing and ease of management.

With Isilon scale-out storage you don’t need to add storage administrators as your storage grows - one person can now manage petabytes of data.

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Scale-out rather than scale-up
With unlimited linear scaling of performance and capacity

Simple to manage
With near-instant expansion and automatic load balancing

Eliminate complexity
Virtualise your storage to totally eliminate LUNs and volumes

Single file system
With policy based management at the directory and file level

Insulate applications from hardware
Eliminate painful migrations and reconfigurations

Maximise uptime
Go beyond RAID controller technology to provide carrier-class uptime

Industry leading self healing
With the fastest drive rebuild times

No more refresh cycles
Non-disruptively add new storage nodes and retire old nodes

Over 80% utilisation
Purchase fewer drives for the same amount of usable storage

Scale-out storage - distributed, fully symmetric clustered architecture (up to 15.5PB)
OneFS operating system - creates a cluster with a single file system/global namespace
Modular design - self-contained nodes include server, software, and disks
Multi-tier - single cluster/file system can include a mixture of SSD, SAS and SATA drives
Cache - fully journaled, fully distributed, globally coherent read/write cache
Scalability - linear scaling of performance and capacity (from 3 to 144 nodes)
AutoBalance - migrate content to new storage nodes while system is online
High availability - self-healing design protects against disk or node failures
Protection levels - file-level striping with support for N+1 through N+4 and mirroring
Protocols - NFS, iSCSI, CIFS/SMB2, HTTP, FTP, NDMP, SNMP, LDAP, ADS and NIS
Clients - Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac and VMware (certified for iSCSI and NFS)

Platform nodes
S-Series - for I/Os per second-intensive applications
X-Series - for high-concurrent and sequential throughput workflows
NL-Series - for near-primary accessibility with near-tape value

Platform extension nodes
Performance Accelerator - ultimate performance, independently scalable
Backup Accelerator - high-speed and scalable backup and restore solution
EX Capacity Extension - independent scaling of capacity

SyncIQ - fast and flexible file-based asynchronous replication
SmartPools - single file system for multiple tiers
SmartLock - policy-based retention and protection against accidental deletion
InsightIQ - powerful, yet simple analytics platform
Isilon for vCenter - manage Isilon functions from VMware vCenter
SmartConnect - policy-based client load balancing with failover
SmartQuotas - quotas and thin provisioning for clustered storage
SnapshotIQ - simple, scalable, and flexible data protection
Aspera for Isilon IQ - high-performance wide-area file and content delivery