Independent Scaling of Capacity

The need to archive, yet quickly access, vast amounts of data is critical for productivity and business continuance.  Yet tape-based and low-end JBOD solutions fall short in performance, ease of use and scalability and don't deliver the ability to quickly, economically, and easily access archived information.

The Isilon EX 6000 or EX 12000 storage expansion nodes extend the capacity of your Isilon scale-out platform.  Designed as an extremely low cost, high capacity clustered storage product, each Isilon EX 6000 contains 6 terabytes of SATA-II disk capacity (12 terabytes for the EX 12000) in a 2U form factor and utilizes state-of-the-art Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology to connect to an Isilon IQ 6000X or IQ 12000X platform node.

Nearline Archiving

• Large scale and less frequently accessed information can be seamlessly moved to an economical and highly available secondary tier of disk-based storage to lower total storage costs.

Disk-to-Disk Backup and Restore

• Consolidating backup information onto a large disk-based single file system, significantly reduces backup windows, restore times and eliminates failures commonly found with traditional tape-based systems.

Remote Disaster Recovery

• When combined with Isilon SyncIQ™ asynchronous replication software, a large single disk-based cluster serves as a superior business continuance storage solution, ensuring enterprise information is online and accessible at all times.

Product Information

• Minimum configuration of five Isilon IQ platform nodes paired with five EX storage extension nodes
• Uses standard NAS file sharing protocols over Gigabit Ethernet.
• Cost-effective for multi-tier nearline, disk-to-disk backup, and disaster recovery needs
• Easily connects to Isilon IQ 6000X or IQ 12000X platform nodes via high speed SAS connection
• Full support for Isilon SyncIQ™ asynchronous replication software