A customer is considering using the CloudPools feature to send archive data to their on premises object storage appliance. The customer needs to know how many objects will be created by the Isilon when it tiers files using CloudPools.
If the customer has 20 1MB files, 2 10MB files and 4 3MB files, how many objects will CloudPools version 1.0 create?

An Isilon customer has an 8-node cluster of older X-Series nodes. They plan to upgrade the nodes over the next three years in the following stages:
* Stage 1: Add 2 X-Series nodes to meet performance growth
* Stage 2: Add 4 NL-Series nodes to meet archive capacity growth
* Stage 3: Add 10 New X-Series nodes as a hardware refresh
* Stage 4: Remove older X-Series nodes
At which point will a SmartPool license be required?

Your customer's site uses an old X-Series cluster, and they are interested in consolidating their two primary workflows. iostat shows that one of the applications is sensitive to latency, while isi statistics indicates sensitivity to disk response times.
There are approximately 1000 users accessing 70 TB of file data.
Which node type would you recommend?

Which Isilon job periodically checks disk sectors to ensure they can be read?

What is the best case performance for Backup Accelerator when backing up to LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?