Again, downloading the package is from support.emc.com > Downloads > isilon. You will need a registered EMC customer / partner account to get the package downloaded.
Installation of ISILON "Virtual Nodes" -Yes, EMC does provide ISILON ONEfs 7.1 for testing ;)) but you will have to download the Trial / Permanent licenses for all the additional features of ISILON working.
ISILON supports:
1) SmartPools
2) SmartQuotas
3) Deduplication
4) iSCSI
5) SnapshotIQ
6) SyncIQ (Remote replication Aka Business continuity for ISILON Cluster)
7) Backup
8) CIFS / SMB Protocol
9) NFS
10) FTP
11) HTTP
12) Diagnostics
13) Performance reporting
I configured a ISILON test Cluster with 2 Nodes and waiting on configuring another Cluster to setup remote replication. But before I do that, I can share some pics from the GUI which shows what all an ISILON can do.
A cluster overview from the main Dashboard page which gives a summary of how your cluster is performing. (Click to expand)
Curious bout knowing which tasks / jobs are running on the ISILON right now - get into the Job Reports tab which will show the running tasks. (Click to expand)
SyncIQ - The most amazing feature of ISILON for remote replication. Yes - ISILON does provide this feature as a licensed one. While creating a policy, you will mention the source cluster path and the target cluster path and set times when you wanna replicate it. (Click to expand)
Performance issues during a SyncIQ session - Have a look at this (Click to expand)
Oops - I forgot to mention - ISILON does provide the iSCSI protocol but since ISILON is a scale out NAS architecture - one has to open a RPQ with EMC to get the ISILON iSCSI feature working as iSCSI is a block architecture.
Lets have a look at the "Filesystem Explorer" in ISILON which doesn't show up in GUI with the "admin" account but you have to login as "root" to get the full ISILON GUI.(Click to expand)
My next post will cover the ISILON "SyncIQ" configuration and some command line examples to manage a ISILON Cluster.
