Name: Dell PowerScale
Rating: 9.8 (24 reviews)
Author: Dell Technologies

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Dell Technologies presents Dell PowerScale (replacing EMC Isilon) as a scale-out NAS solution and server technology that provides the flexibility of a software-defined architecture with accelerated hardware innovations to harness the value of data.

Isilon Systems was acquired by EMC in 2010; some EMC Isilon NAS appliances are still available and supported under the PowerScale brand.

Dell PowerScale

Scale-out storage is expandable network-attached storage (NAS) architecture not confined to a single form factor, but extensible and configurable as needed, intended to scale with business storage and performance needs.

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Lot of bugs

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Quick and simple

Integrate with microsoft

Scales up

Home

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We used Dell EMC PowerScale in the product called SRM. Basically, it is a storage product that can be used by storage admins and IT. We have few PowerScale/Isilon devices discovered in our labs. It is basically used as scale-out NAS Array. It did help us to get information about capacity and performance-related data. In the product SRM, one can easily discover Isilon/PowerScale devices and can monitor the reports.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

NAS Storage
Capacity and Performance details of the array
Alert and Operations details

Things done well

UI could have been made better
No information related to IP addresses
Performance data mismatch

Things done poorly

It is well suited for scale out NAS storage. One can use Rest API calls to get relevant data. It can be used in the product SRM, where one can discover arrays from Isilon/PowerScale and can monitor the reports. One can monitor Capacity and Performance reports of the array.

NAS Storage
Scale out Architecture
Rest API calls

Most Important Features 3.4.21

Helped us to monitor storage environment
Helped in monitoring capacity and performance data
Helped in improving business growth

Return on Investment

Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe, NetApp AFF A-Series All Flash Arrays and XtremIO Flash Storage

Alternatives

NetApp FAS series, XtremIO Flash Storage, Dell EMC PowerMax NVMe

Other Software Used

Dell EMC PowerScale (EMC Isilon) 2021-05-20 06:22:51

Isilon clusters are the most widely used storage solution in our environment. Isilon is used to store mostly media content. Isilon provides a highly scalable and power packed solution. It is being used company-wide and in some other departments as well. We use Isilon to create home directories of hundreds of users as it is very easily accessible and provides very high throughput.

The installation of the cluster is very quick and simple.
The cluster provides very high performance and throughput.
Isilon is very scalable and works on scale-out architecture. So when we add a new node, it not only increases the capacity but, also increases the performance linearly as well.
Management of the array is very easy.
GUI is very user-friendly and so does the CLI which is very smart.

In my experience, I have seen a lot of bugs in the oneFS and for remedying it, we need to install patches which requires a node reboot.
In old isilon OneFS versions, the nodes need to be rebooted every 250 days which is quite less compared to other storage devices.
The operational cost of Isilon is a bit on the higher side.

Isilon is best suited for organizations where a huge amount of unstructured data needs to be stored and also requires a very high performance as well. Isilon is also very suited for businesses where capacity requirement along with the need for more performance will be increasing as time passes. An organization where storage needs to be locally [accessed] and capacity requirements are not high, can go for other products.

Isilon provides very high value for money
Matches the performance and storage requirements of the arrays
EMC provides very skillful and high response team in case of any issues in isilon

Senior Storage Administrator

EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS 2019-01-03 22:58:46

Sumo Logic

Infoblox IPAM for Microsoft, part of Infoblox DDI

Dell EMC Celerra (Discontinued)

Orion Practice Management System

We are using Isilon Scale-Out NAS across all departments within our organization. We use it for storing everything from administrative data (Excel and word documents) to research and multimedia projects. Isilon allows us to grow seamlessly (our environment has been growing at a very rapid rate) and to provide our users with the space and protection their data needs.

Snapshots of folders/files which integrate with Microsoft VSS (previous versions). This allows for quick recovery of lost or deleted files.
Replication of data to a secondary location. We do not need to try to backup such a large environment since we are replicating off site.
Integration with with our Identity management. We can allow users to access files using Active Directory authentication and SMB or NFS protocols.

Job engine. The larger the cluster becomes, the longer some of the jobs can run (AutoBalance, DeDupe). Some jobs can not run at the same time, meaning you have to wait for 1 to finish.
Support - Support has been less than spectacular over the last 2 years or so.
Meta Data analysis. You need to use third party tools to catalog and search meta data.

EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS is well suited for larger files (greater the 128 Kb) and where you need to have everything in one common name space. Where it is less appropriate is for many small files (millions of files less than 128 Kb in size) - this causes the protection level to becoming mirroring, which will cost more space.

We were able to consolidate multiple Windows Files servers into our 1 Isilon and users can easily navigate to find their files.
With snapshots and replication we are able to protect data both locally and off site without having to worry about backup windows.
We are able to quickly and easily add capacity as needed. No fork lift upgrades.

Isilon is immensely more scalable than Celerra and gave us better control over snapshots and replication. The addition of global deduplication provides a huge space savings benefit as well.

EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS 2018-08-28 13:49:15

VMware ESXi

Dell Avamar

EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS 2018-03-23 09:33:36

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Dell PowerScale
Formerly EMC Isilon

Overview

What is Dell PowerScale?

Isilon / PowerScale : #1 NAS Storage Array

Isilon - The scalable and Fast Storage

Dell EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS - Best of Breed

Isilon Scale-Out NAS

Best scale out performance with global namespace in the business

Product Details

What is Dell PowerScale?

Dell PowerScale Technical Details

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