File Services Solution with Isilon+ECS

Hello Bhuppi1,

Here is a link to ECS technical white papers and videos. There are a few different white papers that will explain things a littler futher.

https://dell.to/3lUvhmt

Thanks. I will have a look in the links, specifically on Cloud/Virtualization link.

We do have Isilon/ECS on-prem. Do we have a specific use-case or solution doc for File Services on these.

Thanks for your assistance.

Hello Bhuppi1,

There is not a specific document for that.

Hi Nicola,
Yes, we want to use existing Isilon (and recently commissioned ecs) as a unified fileserver?
Note, ECS here is software version(Not appliance) with EMC provided nodes. Not sure if that makes any difference.
Something high-level thought like this (not exactly)-
- File Data will first go to Isilon.
- Some Isilon policy will move it to ECS as an object.
- ECS will then put data on S3 for older data.
- And this way it will be kind of a Hybrid cloud.
(Goal is to give it some Cloud touch(Hybrid), and keep customer away from going to AWS)

Please share slides for a file gateway offering for ECS.
Thank You

Hi,

Does ECS CIFS Gateway requires an ECS Storage Appliance only.  I guess so, but want to confirm.

Or it can run on ECS software product that is installed on a set of EMC provided qualified commodity servers and disks.

Also, can we use Geo-Drive for the same purpose in this case.

Thank You.

Thanks Nicola.

Also, please advise on ECS-CIFS(formerly) and now Geo-Drive. How reliable it is for File Services on ECS.      Any procs and cons features doc on this.

Thank You.