An Isilon customer has an 8-node cluster of older X-Series nodes. They plan to upgrade the nodes over the next three years in the following stages:
Stage 1: Add 2 X-Series nodes to meet performance growth

Stage 2: Add 4 NL-Series nodes to meet archive capacity growth

Stage 3: Add 10 New X-Series nodes as a hardware refresh

Stage 4: Remove older X-Series nodes

At which point will a SmartPool license be required?

An Isilon customer has two 5-node clusters; one for production and one for disaster recovery (DR). The customer's workflows are replicated to the DR cluster through SyncIQ on individual schedules. They shutdown their production cluster for a scheduled DR test, failed over to the DR cluster, and continue their DR testing.
Assume both clusters have identical shares, exports, and user authentication and that the client applications have been stopped and the DNS re-pointed. What is the correct method to continue production operations?

Which SyncIQ policy is required if the goal is to have all source data replicated and to retain deleted files?

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A European Sports TV network is considering Isilon for their Media Edit Storage for their editing workloads. They are also considering Isilon for near-line media archiving.
The network receives XDCAM HD footage which is loaded onto their existing Transcoding Storage platform. New footage that needs to be edited will be transferred from their Transcoding Storage platform to the proposed Media Edit Storage platform at the rate of ten simultaneous XDCAM HD files via FTP. Edited files will be transferred back to the Transcoding Storage platform at the rate of ten simultaneous XDCAM HD files via FTP.
The network currently has 15 Final Cut Pro edit stations, 15 Avid edit stations. Proxy software will be used to allow Isilon to act as the storage for the Final Cut Pro and Avid media. Three of those edit stations will be performing content compositing as needed.
The network expects 70 hours of new content per week, and 50 hours of edited content per week. They intend to keep the new and edited content on the proposed Media Edit Storage as a performance tier for 30 days. They would like to retain all new and edited footage proposed Media Edit Storage as a near-line tier for two years.
In addition to the current workloads, the network expects to implement a new Media Asset Management (MAM) solution and has requested the Isilon cluster be capable of supporting
120 MBps read and 120 MBps write to support the MAM requirements.
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The customer wants to be able to put completed content into a non-editable folder.
However, they want to give access to an administrator to delete content if required. What do you recommend to the customer?

Your customer manages a print media environment, consisting of three Isilon clusters, which are out of support. The customer would like to have access to new software releases and feature sets. You have been asked to perform a full discovery of the customer's environment.
The customer's current Isilon clusters are as follows:
"Cust" (12 x 12000X) serves as upload media storage for different tenants.
"Working" (8 x 12000X + 6 x X200) serves as a working zone for extraction to RAW and printing media from it.
"Archive" (16 x 72NL + Accelerator nodes) is used to store printed content for six months.
The customer operates in a Windows environment using SMB 2.0, two DNS servers per AD forest, three forest domains which are servicing three different environments. All servers are operating on a 1Gb network, three VLANs segregating the DEV/QA/PROD environments. Currently, there is no monitoring in place for performance measurement or optimization.
The requirements for this solution include:
* Better ROI and TCO
* Maintain same performance with possible improvements
* Renew HW/SW and get inclusive support
* Limit migrations
* Reduce space, power, cooling consumption
* Get new feature sets
* If migration required, use Parallel copy (multiple nodes, multiple threads, multiple connections)
* Segregate tenant shares from other tenants
* Expand up to 1PB of total storage
Which licenses need to be defined for the solution to perform optimally?