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Isilon SmartPools

With SmartPools™, multiple tiers of Isilon scale-out NAS nodes (including S-Series, X-Series, and NL-Series) can exist within a single file system, with a single point of management, enabling you to right-size and accelerate working sets while automatically and transparently moving inactive data to more cost-effective storage.

SmartPools unlocks the ability to aggregate and consolidate applications, providing workflow isolation, higher utilization, and independent scalability–all with a single point of management. SmartPools is policy-driven, so you can define the value of the data within workflows and SmartPools will automatically align the data to the appropriate price/performance tier over time.

Easily deploy a single file system to span multiple tiers of performance and capacity

• Policy-based automatic data movement within a single namespace, single file-system without complex links,stubs, or manual data migration.
• Add capacity and/or performance in 60 seconds, enabling seamlessly expansion of any tier, on-demand.
• Consolidate and aggregate multiple applications into a single storage system, eliminating data movement and simplifying management.

Single file system automatically adapts to business data and application workflows over time

• SmartPools aligns application needs with performance, capacity, and economics – automatically.
• Respond quickly to changes in workflow and demand for new performance and capacity.
• Seamlessly adapt to workflow changes without affecting applications or workflows.
• Provide workflow isolation for critical applications without increasing management complexity.

Align the business value of data with optimal storage performance and cost

• Isilon pay-as-you-grow scalability maximizes utilization across tiers.
• Automatically align the value of data with optimal storage performance and cost without modifying applications or notifying users.
• Eliminate costly data migration and manual data movement between price/performance tiers.