Question 106

An Isilon storage administrator is concerned about capacity after ingesting 200 TB of file data. They recently added more nodes to the cluster and now want to auto-balance it as soon as possible.
The cluster utilization percentages for an average 24-hour period are:
* 45% during 00:00 - 08:59
* 60% during 09:00 - 17:00
* 85% during 17:01 - 23:59
The administrator wants to keep cluster utilization at a minimum. Which Impact Policy settings should be used to quickly complete the job without impacting the production workload?
  • Question 107

    Independent of protocol, what does Isilon OneFS use to translate identities?
  • Question 108

    What key considerations should be kept in mind when designing a 300TB solution?
  • Question 109

    You have had several discussions with your customer in the processor design industry.
    They have stated that they want a Scale-Out NAS platform for their design environment.
    Their most significant responses were "We have 125 design engineers accessing large diagrams and we need high throughput to support them. Can we also get the highest performance available? We need to stay ahead of our competitors." Other areas you discussed were their data retention policies and workflow after the chip design is completed. They plan to archive the design files but the files must stay on line.
    What is your initial node recommendation?
  • Question 110

    Your customer manages a print media environment, consisting of three Isilon clusters, which are out of support. The customer would like to have access to new software releases and feature sets. You have been asked to perform a full discovery of the customer's environment.
    The customer's current Isilon clusters are as follows:
    "Cust" (12 x 12000X) serves as upload media storage for different tenants.
    "Working" (8 x 12000X + 6 x X200) serves as a working zone for extraction to RAW and printing media from it.
    "Archive" (16 x 72NL + Accelerator nodes) is used to store printed content for six months.
    The customer operates in a Windows environment using SMB 2.0, two DNS servers per AD forest, three forest domains which are servicing three different environments. All servers are operating on a 1Gb network, three VLANs segregating the DEV/QA/PROD environments. Currently, there is no monitoring in place for performance measurement or optimization.
    The requirements for this solution include:
    * Better ROI and TCO
    * Maintain same performance with possible improvements
    * Renew HW/SW and get inclusive support
    * Limit migrations
    * Reduce space, power, cooling consumption
    * Get new feature sets
    * If migration required, use Parallel copy (multiple nodes, multiple threads, multiple connections)
    * Segregate tenant shares from other tenants
    * Expand up to 1PB of total storage
    What would you recommend be done to consolidate the three clusters into one?