Overall Satisfaction with EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS
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 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