Tag: Isilon

  • A Closer Look at the All-Flash Isilon, aka Nitro

    A Closer Look at the All-Flash Isilon, aka Nitro

    On 19 October, Dell EMC made an announcement about the All-Flash Isilon nodes. This product line has been code-named “Project Nitro”. The announcement was timed to occur during the first-ever Dell EMC World event. I’ll walk through what was announced, and then provide additional details.

  • MiniCast, Season 1, Episode 4: EMC Isilon OneFS 8.0 with Ed Beauvais

    MiniCast, Season 1, Episode 4: EMC Isilon OneFS 8.0 with Ed Beauvais

    On Monday at EMC World, I had the opportunity to sit down with Ed Beauvais, EMC’s Director of Isilon Product Marketing. Ed was gracious enough to agree to be interviews for the MiniCast. We talked about new features in Isilon OneFS 8.0 and how they fit into EMC’s “Edge to Core to Cloud” message. At…

  • What’s New in Isilon OneFS 8.0

    What’s New in Isilon OneFS 8.0

    You may remember that back in November EMC announced new features coming to Isilon. Most of the message focused on the IsilonSD Edge virtual appliance, but a lot of the rest had to do with “OneFS.NEXT” (which we all expected to be numbered 8.0). About 3 weeks ago, OneFS 8.0 became GA. The availability of…

  • EMC Announces Plans to Make Isilon Announcements in 2016

    [NOTE: This post has been updated with answers to some of the questions I had at the time of the announcement. The updates are inline, below.] Today, EMC made some announcements about some new Isilon products that they hope to make Generally Available (GA) in “early 2016”. If you’ve been following Isilon closely like I…

  • EMC Announces New High-Density Isilon Node – the HD400

    Yesterday, EMC announced the addition of a new node type to their Isilon scale-out storage line. This new node offers higher-density storage than any other Isilon nodes, specifically 354TB raw capacity in 4U of rack space. The new node, known internally at EMC as “Colossus”, has been launched as the HD400. I’ll walk through the…

  • VCE Announces Seven New Products in its Largest Launch to Date

    Today, in their largest announcement since EMC, Cisco, and VMware jointly announced the company’s formation five years ago, VCE announced seven new additions to their product lineup. These new additions consist of: 3 new Vblock models (System 240, 540, and 740) 2 new “technology extensions” (Storage (Isilon) and Compute (Cisco UCS)) 2 integrated solutions for…

  • GeekFluent’s Roundup of the EMC MegaLaunch Announcements

    Perhaps you remember EMC’s first big product announcement event under their then-new CMO Jeremy Burton. They called it a “MegaLaunch” and set out to break several world records as part of the event. If you remember 20 people stuffed into a Mini Cooper, you remember the event. Every year since then, EMC has repeated the…

  • EMC Announces Updates to Isilon Scale-Out NAS Platform

    Today, as part of their “MegaLaunch”, EMC announced updates to the Isilon scale-out NAS platform. The updates include two new hardware nodes, expanded Flash capabilities, and new data access methods. I’ll walk through the updates below.

  • Update OpenSSL on Isilon InsightIQ – Avoid the Heartbleed Vulnerability

    [Instructions found herein are based upon the work of multiple other folks in this thread in the Isilon Support Forum.] By now, you’re likely aware of the “Heartbleed” security vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptography library. If you have an Isilon cluster, you might be wondering if it’s affected. The good news is that all versions…

  • Use Your Windows Laptop as an Isilon Console Terminal

    [NOTE: I did not develop this process. I’ve simply expanded on instructions I originally received in email from my colleague, Andrew Boggs. Thanks to Andrew for the tip.] If you’re like me, you have a company-issued Windows laptop. If you, further like me, sometimes need to connect to the console of Isilon nodes, this “How…