Click on the calculator icon. You have been invited to meet with the Social Media and Marketing
Department and gather requirements for a potential File System Project. They primarily use CIFS
and are considering deploying a Hadoop cluster to analyze customer demographic data. The
Senior Systems Engineer thinks they will need 2PB of usable capacity.
What would you do to gain an understanding of the customer’s environment to qualify and develop
the opportunity?

Your customer has an Isilon 4-node X400 cluster used for home directory use, and has since
updated to OneFS 7.0. The HR and Legal departments have been very strict about using only
dedicated file servers that are part of a single, isolated, untrusted Active Directory domain. Their
filer has been out of maintenance, and fears are being raised that, due to the age, it may fail at
some point.
What could the IT department do, to allow the HR and Legal groups to provide file share services,
with minimal impact to their other application permissions?

Click on the calculator icon. A customer is looking for a NAS solution to support their readintensive application. This solution must meet the following requirements:
1000 users
Aggregate bandwidth of 5 GB/s
500 TB of user data
Typical latency of 5 ms.
The files are distributed evenly across 10 directories.
Which cluster configuration would best meet these requirements?

A telecommunications company has a substantial amount of data. This data is being created by
network elements within their environment.

The company wants to change the way the network element’s Call Detail Records (CDR) are
stored and analyzed. The existing infrastructure consolidates all of the CDRs into a table structure,
and then ingests them into a large database. Once ingested, a query engine accesses the
database and performs analysis on these files. The system is functional; however, since the
amount of CDRs generated will increase exponentially over the next year, the company is open to
alternatives for storing and analyzing these records.
In evaluating alternatives, the key requirements are to reduce cost, the amount of storage, and the
amount of time to analyze the data. The customer would like to use Hadoop to analyze the CDRs.
After you have conducted an assessment of the workflow, you have recommended an Isilon
Cluster to work within the Hadoop environment.
What would be the best recommendation to the customer for the workflow of Hadoop with Isilon?

A telecommunications company has a substantial amount of data. This data is being created by
network elements within their environment.
The company wants to change the way the network element’s Call Detail Records (CDR) are
stored and analyzed. The existing infrastructure consolidates all of the CDRs into a table structure,
and then ingests them into a large database. Once ingested, a query engine accesses the
database and performs analysis on these files. The system is functional; however, since the
amount of CDRs generated will increase exponentially over the next year, the company is open to
alternatives for storing and analyzing these records.
In evaluating alternatives, the key requirements are to reduce cost, the amount of storage, and the
amount of time to analyze the data. The customer would like to use Hadoop to analyze the CDRs.

After you have conducted an assessment of the workflow, you have recommended an Isilon
Cluster to work within the Hadoop environment.
Considering the customer’s requirements, which is the best node type for the Isilon cluster?

A telecommunications company has a substantial amount of data. This data is being created by
network elements within their environment.
The company wants to change the way the network element’s Call Detail Records (CDR) are
stored and analyzed. The existing infrastructure consolidates all of the CDRs into a table structure,
and then ingests them into a large database. Once ingested, a query engine accesses the
database and performs analysis on these files. The system is functional; however, since the
amount of CDRs generated will increase exponentially over the next year, the company is open to
alternatives for storing and analyzing these records.
In evaluating alternatives, the key requirements are to reduce cost, the amount of storage, and the
amount of time to analyze the data. The customer would like to use Hadoop to analyze the CDRs.
After you have conducted an assessment of the workflow, you have recommended an Isilon
Cluster to work within the Hadoop environment.
Which protocols would be the best fit when using Isilon for this customer’s Hadoop workflow?

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
Which licenses need to be defined for the solution to perform optimally?

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 steps need to be taken on the clusters to meet the customer requirements?

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?