Isilon

Migrating CIFS shares from VNX to Isilon using emcopy

Here's the scenario : We have a cifs share named "cifsdata" residing on vnx-cs-180. The name of the cifs server is njcifs187 and its IP is 192.168.0.187 . Isilon smartconnect zone name is smartcluster. On the Isilon Cluster create a SMB share .When you create a share, select " Do Not…

Isilon CLI

Check OneFS Version isi version Check the Status isi status Check High Level Overview Of Usage isi status -d isi status -q Hardware Status isi_hw_status Array Wide commands With an Isilon cluster being made up of multiple nodes, you will occasionally want to run command on some or all…

WhitePaper : NFS File Migration to an Isilon Cluster

This paper provides technical information and recommendations to help you migrate data from a single NFS protocol workflow on another NAS vendor to an EMC Isilon Storage Cluster

White Paper:SMB File Migration to EMC Isilon

This paper provides technical information and recommendations to help you migrate data from a single SMB protocol workflow on another NAS vendor to an EMC Isilon Storage cluster. It includes the best practices for planning, setting up, and executing the migration.

Best Practices for NFS client Settings

This article describes the best practices and recommendations for client-side settings and mount options when using the NFS protocol to connect to an Isilon cluster. This article applies to all versions of OneFS. Details Use NFS over TCP, not UDP When you use the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), if the network speed of…

Troubleshooting Isilon Performance Issues

Performance issues are typically caused by network traffic,network configuration issues, client or cluster processing load, or a combination thereof. This article describes several effective ways to troubleshoot performance issues. Symptoms Client computers perform slowly. Certain jobs, particularly those that run on the cluster, either fail or take longer than expected…

How to use the isi_vol_copy utility to migrate data from a NetApp filer to an Isilon cluster

The isi_vol_copy command line utility provides a mechanism for transferring data from a NetApp filer to an Isilon cluster. The information in this article applies to OneFS 6.5.5 3 and later. Details The isi_vol_copy utility copies directory trees from a NetApp filer to an Isilon cluster over a network using…