Lab Guide

Isilon OneFS 7.0 Management vLab

Demo Guide
Lab Guide

EMC Solutions Group

Abstract
This Lab Guide serves as a guide for a demonstration of the
management of EMC Isilon storage systems.

November 2012
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Table of contents
Introduction.............................................................................................................................. 5
Purpose ................................................................................................................................ 5
Scope .................................................................................................................................. 5
Terminology ......................................................................................................................... 5

Technology overview .............................................................................................................. 6

EMC Isilon storage system ................................................................................................... 6

Lab overview ........................................................................................................................... 7

Lab environment ................................................................................................................. 7
Labs...................................................................................................................................... 7

Lab 1 – Expanding that EMC Isilon storage system with data in flight .................................... 8
Overview ............................................................................................................................. 8
Lab ....................................................................................................................................... 8
Connect to the Windows 7 Client .................................................................................. 8
Login ................................................................................................... 错误！未定义书签。
Connect to the Windows share on node 1 .................................................................. 10
Create a file on the share ............................................................................................. 12
Connect to the Windows share on node 2 .................................................................. 13
Copy DemoData to the cluster .................................................................................... 16
Mount cluster and copy data from Linux client (Optional) ......................................... 17
Expand cluster what data is writing .............................................................................. 18
Show AutoBalance starting to work ............................................................................. 20
Show larger drive capacity from the client.................................................................. 21
Show the Windows client copy is uninterrupted .......................................................... 21
Show larger export capacity from the Linux Client (optional) ..................................... 22
Show the progress AutoBalance has made ................................................................. 22

Lab 2 – Walkthrough of Web Administration Interface ......................................................... 24

Overview ........................................................................................................................... 24
Lab ..................................................................................................................................... 24
Administrative Web Interface details ........................................................................... 24

Conclusion ............................................................................................................................. 36
Summary ............................................................................................................................ 36
Support .............................................................................................................................. 36
Customer ....................................................................................................................... 36
EMC personnel .............................................................................................................. 36

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References......................................................................................................................... 36

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Introduction
Purpose This Lab Guide serves as a guide to a demonstration of the configuration
and management of EMC Isilon storage systems.

Scope This Lab Guide provides:

 A set of illustrated labs to demonstrate the EMC Isilon storage solution
 Connecting to the EMC Isilon storage system
 Connecting to the management interface
 Mapping a windows drive to the EMC Isilon storage system
 Mount cluster from UNIX client (Optional)
 Expanding that EMC Isilon storage system with data in flight

Terminology Table 1 explains EMC Isilon storage systems terminology.

Table 1. Terminology
Term Description
EMC Isilon storage system
Isilon Node The building blocks of an EMC Isilon storage system. A node is
made up of a server with CPU, memory, network connections
and hard drives.
IB Switch InfiniBand switch that is use for communication between the
nodes
IP Pool Range of IP address to be used as more nodes are added to the
cluster

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Technology overview
EMC Isilon OneFS® is EMC Isilon's seventh-generation operating system that provides
storage system the intelligence behind all Isilon® scale-out storage systems. It combines
the three layers of traditional storage architectures—file system, volume
manager and RAID—into one unified software layer, creating a single
intelligent file system that spans all nodes within a cluster.

OneFS enables:

 Independent or linear scalability of performance and capacity to

over 85 Gigabytes per second of throughput and more than 15.5
petabytes of capacity in a single filesystem
 A single point of management for large and rapidly growing
repositories of data
 Mission-critical reliability and high availability with state-of-the-art
data protection
Unlike simple NAS namespace aggregation products, Isilon's OneFS
operating system is truly distributed and intelligently stripes data across all
nodes in a cluster to create a single, shared pool of storage. OneFS offers
unsurpassed mission critical reliability and industry- leading drive rebuild
times.

OneFS also delivers unique cluster-aware symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)

capabilities that enable the system to move tasks between processors for
extremely efficient workload balancing. In conjunction with OneFS‗ ability
to stripe data across all nodes in a cluster, Isilon achieves the high
aggregate bandwidth and transactional performance required to power
next generation enterprise data centers.

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Lab overview
Lab environment The environment for this lab includes the following:
 4 x EMC Isilon virtual storage nodes
 1 x Windows 7 Client
o Username: vlab\user1
o Password: Password123
 1 x Windows 2008 R2 Server
o Username: Administrator
o Password: Password123
 1 x Linux client
o Username: root
o Password: a

Labs This lab includes the following labs:

 Lab 1: Expanding that EMC Isilon storage system with data in flight
 Map Windows client to different nodes in cluster
 Show that system is truly distributed
 Mount cluster from UNIX client (Optional)
 SSH to Linux client
 Mount cluster
 From either Windows or Linux client or both, copy data to the
cluster
 From the Web Administration Interface add the 4th node
 Lab 2: Walkthrough of Web Administration Interface

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Lab 1 – Expanding that EMC Isilon storage system with data in
flight
Overview In this lab you will show how data can be read and written to any node in
the cluster. Then you will map and/or mount the cluster, start copying data,
and then add the 4th node while copying the data. You will then point out
how the system will balance all the data evenly after the 4th node is
added. This will demonstrate how the Isilon storage system can expand
easily with no interruption to client connectivity and automatically
balance the data on the cluster.

Lab Connect to the Windows 7 Client

Click on the computer icon to the right of the Isilon LaunchPad VM

(Windows 7 Client)

Click on the resolution you want to use

It is recommend to use 1024x768 or higher resolution

Click the icon above the VLAB\user1 label

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In the password field, type Password123

Click the Arrow icon

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Connect to the Windows share on node 1

To map a drive, click the Windows Icon, right-click on the Computer label
and select Map network drive...

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In the "Drive" dropdown, choose Y:

In the "Folder" field, type \\[Link]\ifs

Check the box for "Connect using different credentials"

Click Finish

Guest access is not enabled by default in OneFS 7.0. A cluster user has
been created for this demo called clusteruser1. Authenticate with this user.

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In the Username field type in clusteruser1

In the Password field type in a

Click the Arrow icon

Create a file on the share

On the Y: drive, Right-click in windows explorer and select New > Text
Document

Name the file "[Link]"

Open the [Link] file

Type in "written to node 1"

Close and save the file

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Connect to the Windows share on node 2

To map a drive, click the Windows Icon, right-click on the Computer label
and select Map network drive...

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In the "Drive" dropdown, choose Z:

In the "Folder" field, type \\[Link]\ifs

Check the box for "Connect using different credentials"

Click Finish

Guest access is not enabled by default in OneFS 7.0. A cluster user has
been created for this demo called clusteruser1. Authenticate with this user.

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In the Username field type in clusteruser1

In the Password field type in a

Click the Arrow icon

Open the file named "[Link]" from the Z: drive

Show to the customer that the data that was written from node 1 is seen.

Add to the file by Type in "Writing from Node 2"

Close and save the file

This is a good time to talk about how OneFS distributes all data as it is
written and how files can be read or written from any node in the cluster.

Go back to the Y: drive and open the "[Link]" file

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Show that the file is the same and truely distributed

From windows explorer:, Click on the Computer icon

Point out the capacity of the mapped drive

The capacity will be very small because of the virtualized environment

Copy DemoData to the cluster

Drag the DemoData folder from the desktop data folder on the mapped
drive

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Mount cluster and copy data from Linux client (Optional)

To connect to the Linux Client, click the Windows Icon and select the Linux
Client icon

At the "login as:" prompt, enter root and press Enter

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At the "password:" prompt, enter a and press Enter

Type df -h to display the current volumes

Type mount [Link]:/ifs /mnt

Type df -h to display the newly mounted Isilon cluster

Type cp -r /demodata /mnt

Immediately go to the next step

Expand cluster what data is writing

Choose any of the web browsers installed. They all default to loading the
Administration Web Interface. Agreed to any SSL certificate warnings that
appear because the cluster is using a self-signed certificate.

Login to the web interface

In the Username: field enter "admin"

In the Password: field enter "a"

Click Log in

Some of the browsers will automatically fill this in for you.

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Scroll down a little and show the Client connection summary

Before adding the 4th node, wait until there is at least 100 MB of data on
each node.

Be sure to point out how OneFS is distributing the data evenly across all
nodes as data is written to node 1

To add a node, click Cluster Management and select Hardware

Configuration

Click the "Add node" on last node to join it to the cluster

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To get the cluster status, click Dashboard

While the node is the process of joining the cluster, it will show up as red.

Show AutoBalance starting to work

Point out how AutoBalance will start to distribute the data evenly across all
4 nodes. With virtualization this could take several minutes to fully balance.

The node may show as yellow instead of green. This is because of

virtualization as well.

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Show larger drive capacity from the client

Switch to the Windows Explorer window

Click on the Computer icon

Point out the increase of the capacity of the mapped drive and how this
happened with no interruption in service to the client

Note: If the drive capacity has not increased, simply double-click on the
mapped drive and click on the Computer icon again. This will re-stat the
drive to get the new drive size.

Show the Windows client copy is uninterrupted

Because of the virtualized environment, it would be best to cancel the

copy now by clicking the Cancel button This will make the Isilon more
responsive for the demo.

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Show larger export capacity from the Linux Client (optional)

Switch to the Linux Client (root@redhat-client) window

Point out the copy is stil continuing or has completed without errors.

If the copy is still running, stop it now. This is done by pressing Control + c at
the same time

Type df -h

Point out the increased capacity available to the Linux Client

Show the progress AutoBalance has made

This may take some time with the virtual nodes, but it will be visible that
data is being AutoBalanced. This happened with no administrator work
and would happen much faster with real hardware.

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That completes Lab 2: Expanding that EMC Isilon storage system with data
in flight

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Lab 2 – Walkthrough of Web Administration Interface
Overview This lab will show different components that are good to show during a
demonstration. It gives details of the data on the various pages. This
section is provided to give you knowledge as questions often come up
about these details during a demonstration.

Lab Administrative Web Interface details

This is the Cluster Overview Page. To get this page, click Dashboard

Section 1: Status. This section displays:

HDD and SSD capacities

% of used storage space

IP addresses of the nodes

Data going in and out of each node via the front end ethernet
connections

Health of the nodes and cluster

Aggregates of all information

All data can be sorted by clicking the header

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 Note: Because of the virtualized environment the VHS will show up much
larger then in the real world because of the lower drive count per node

Section 2: Client connection summary. This section displays:

The number of tcp connections to each node in the cluster

Section 3: New events. This section displays all new events on the cluster

Section 4: Monitoring Cluster Size. In the default Current view this section
displays a pie chart of:

HDD Space Used

HDD Space Available

SSD Space Used

SSD Space Available

VHS: The space reserved in case of a drive failure. This insures there is a
enough free space in the cluster to rebuild the data on a failed drive by
changing reducing the displayed capacity to the users by this capacity -
This is hidden for this demo as it is very large for virtualized nodes

Section 5: Monitoring Cluster throughput (file system). In the default Current

view this section displays the last 2 hours of information for:

Data going in and out of the /ifs filesystems which is where all the users
data is

CPU load for the cluster

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On the Cluster Status page, the views can be changed from "Current" to
"Historical" by clicking the Current drop-down and choosing Historical

When this change is made the following occurs:

Cluster size is changed to display a line chart showing both the data
added and capacity increased as nodes were are added during the last
year. This will not be very interesting for a new cluster.

Cluster throughput and CPU usage are the same as before except instead
of showing 2 hours of data, 2 weeks of data are displayed

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This is the Client Connection page. To get this page, click Dashboard and
click Client Connections.

Section 1: Filters. This allows connections to the cluster to be filtered by:

Client: This is the IP address of the client

Protocol: This is the protocol used by the client to connect to the cluster.
The most common of these are SMB and NFS.

Node: This is the node the clients are connect to. Choosing a specific
node will filter the result to only connection to that node.

Section 2: Client This section displays:

All the clients by default, but will be filtered to a subset of clients if any
filters have been chosen.

Section 3: Connections per node. This displays a bar graph of the number
of connections per node.

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This is the Throughput Distribution page. To get this page, click Dashboard
and click Throughput Distribution.

Filesystem throughput (total throughput per node) In the default Current

view this section displays the amount of data currently going through all
the front-end ethernet connections on the different nodes in the cluster.

On the Cluster Status page, the views can be changed from "Current" to
"Historical" by clicking the Current drop-down and choosing Historical

When this change is made the following occurs:

A line graph is generated showing the last 2 weeks of throughput from all
the nodes in the cluster. No legend is provided, but if the mouse is hovered
over any data point, details will be provided.

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Note: Since for a demo your cluster will not be up for very long, you will
probably have to change the filters at the top in order to see any data.

This example shows that if we change the time and the filter to a small
window, we can see some data from the copying the DemoData
directory from the client. By hovering over the data point, the details are
displayed.

To get to details on a specific nodes, click Dashboard and click # of the

node.

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This is the Node Status Page.

Section 1: Status. This section displays:

IP addresses of the all the interface, but internal and external

Data going in and out of each every interface on the node

Health of the nodes

NVRAM battery health

Node hardware details such as Model, Configuration, and serial numbers

Uptime of the node

All data can be sorted by clicking the header

Section 2: Client connection summary. This section displays:

All the clients connected to this node as well as which procotol is being
used for the connection

Section 3: Monitoring Node Size. The monitoring information is the same as

for the cluster, but filtered down to this specific node.

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Scrolling down on the Node Status page show this information.

Section 1: Platform link. If this link is selected, more hardware details of the
node will be displayed. This includes:

CPU

RAM

Voltages

Fan speeds

etc

Section 2: Drive status. This section displays:

A Visual of all the drives in the node. This could be up to 36.

The amount of data being read and written to each drive bay.

The current health of all drives

Legend is provided at the bottom of the page

There is extra drives here that are grey because of OneFS being virtualized

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This is the Drive Status Page. To display this Page, click on one of the drive
pages on the Node Status page.

Section 1: General drive information, including:

Cluster

Node

Bay

Status: This can be healthy, Not in use (drive is dead or bay is empty),
SmartFailed (System is proactiviely failing a drive that is going to fail soon)

Section 2: Drive actions, including:

Add: Used after a drive as failed and new drive has been inserted

Smart Fail: Used to tell the system to proactively, safely, fail a drive.
OneFS usually does this automatically when drive starts to have suspectus
behavior.

Format: This will display as an option when a OneFS format drive is

inserted. It allows the administrator to force OneFS to use a drive that may
have OneFS data on it.

Section 3: Drive Details. This give detail about the model and serial
numbers of the drive

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Section 4: Log Sense Data. This is all the SMART data for the drive -
because of virtuilzation, there is no data here in the demo

This is the File System Explorer Page. To display this Page, click File System
Management and select File System Explorer

Section 1: Directories. Here is where the Filesystem directories can be

explored

Section 2: Add Directory button. This will allow you to add directories. Note:
There is no deleting data from this page. That must be done via other
protocols.

Section 3: Search. This allows you to filter down the display list of files and
folder to anything with the word you are searching for. This does not
looking inside those files.

Section 4: Columns. This give you control over which columns to display in
this view.

Section 5: File and folder list. This gives details about the files and folders
including:

Size

Modification Time

Current Disk Pool

Disk Pool Target. This can be different if a SmartPools jobs is running, but
has not completed yet.

SSD Strategy. Options include: metadata [default], data on ssd, and

avoid ssd.

Protection Policy. Default means that it's using the Disk pools
default policy. If someone has put extra protection on the file or folder,
you may see +1, +2:1, +3:1, +2, +3, +4 as well as 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x, 6x, 7x, 8x

Protected. This refers to where the file is protected at the level specified
by the policy. This should be green. It can be read, if a disk has failed
recently and a FlexProtect is in the process of re-protecting the data, or if

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the disk pool protection policy has recently been increased. This can
happen when a cluster goes from 10 to 20 nodes and the policy needs to
be increased.

Properties. This link allows you to change several properties of a file or

directory

This is the File and Folder Properties dialog. To display this dialog, click the
properties link on the File System Explorer page

Here is where we can make changes such as increasing the Protection

level of a specific file or folder.

Many other properties can be modified this simply.

Point out the simply flexibility of OneFS to modify protection at a file and
folder level with just a few clicks.

That completes Lab 2: Walkthrough of Web Administration Interface

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Conclusion
Summary During this demonstration, you completed the following labs:
 Showed the distributed nature of Isilon storage systems
 Show the power of Isilon storage systems to expand capacity and
performance with no interruption to client services
 Show that Isilon storage systems can redistribute data across all the
nodes even after nodes are added

Support Customer
For any issues or feedback, or for further information about EMC products,
solutions, and demonstrations, contact your EMC representative.

EMC personnel
For any issues or feedback, please email GDP POD SUPPORT. Please
include as much detail as possible to ensure your email is addressed in a
timely manner.

References For additional information, consult these EMC documents:

That completes the demonstration of

EMC Isilon Storage System Pod

Thank You

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