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Isilon is a scale-out NAS storage platform based on the OneFS operating system

Isilon is a flexible scalable NAS solution that provides NFSv3, NFSv4, CIFS, and HDFS access, multiple levels of data protection, tiering and more.

Isilon systems are managed via CLI commands and a web interface for administration.

This tag is mainly for questions regarding automation of administrative tasks, and potentially useful Isilon CLI scripts.

For troubleshooting it is best to immediately contact support instead of searching for help on online forums.

Yet some complex issues involving the interaction of an Isilon cluster and other systems may attract useful answers and comments here. For an example of such questions consider the following:

A useful resource for Isilon administrators is the unofficial Isilon Technical Users Group

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Intermittent NFS lockups on Isilon cluster

We have an Isilon cluster with 8 IQ 12000x nodes which exports storage via several NFS shares for a handful of Linux and Solaris clients. There is a Linux system that has one of these NFS filesystems mounted. I/O to this filesystem is moderately…
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why are there are so many svchost established connections to Isilon?

Our client has a Isilon (used only for smb) with few nodes attached to it. When I run TCPView I don't understand why svchost service established the connection and why there're so many of them: And the ip 10.64.4.212: I run svchost analyzer to…
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stat() mtime is in the past, despite fsync

This might be a bit esoteric, but I've got an odd sort of a problem with stat(). Specifically - on a Linux system, with Isilon storage NFS mounted. I have a process that is getting time differences when running fstat on the same file. I can…
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Isilon 'enabling_writes' gets stuck during failover

I've been testing failover functionality on a new Isilon. Running OneFS 8.0.0 (A .0 release, but .1 is on the install queue). Part of this is performing a failover operation, following a procedure on EMC's site -…
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Intermittent logon failures or lock out failures when under high impersonation load

Recently we've been seeing an interesting slew of failures on our cluster where users' jobs will intermittently fail with logon errors, account locked out errors, or file permission errors. Our cluster is loosely-coupled and coarse-grained, built…
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How can I unlock a large amount of files on isilon storage if a process had them open?

Some background information : I have a couple SQL servers that have half their databases on isilon storage (I know, no bueno. I'm in the process of moving them). During the night one of those SQL servers suffered a BSOD and rebooted. Unfortunately…
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Fastest way to delete millions of files on an Isilon IQ 72NL SAN?

This question has been asked a number of times in general linux terms and in relation to certain file systems, but I have not seen the question asked about this specific brand/model SAN. So, the question is: What's the fastest way to delete millions…
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Witness Client failed to find a Witness Server

I am having a lot of critical event on all servers 2012r2 which connect to our isilon_cluster storage. Witness Client failed to find a Witness Server for NetName \\isilon_cluster with error (Element not found.). Retrying in (15) seconds. I have no…
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What does it mean for "OWNER CREATOR" to be the owner of a folder?

I see folders with an owner of "OWNER CREATOR" and group of "DOMAIN\Domain Users". When I copy these files, the ownership is being transferred to me. That is not the behavior I want. However, what does it mean for a folder to have an owner of…
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Windows applications do not see files on CIFS share mapped without FQDN

I've run into another oddity recently on our cluster with respect to Windows 2003 and Windows 7 (using Explorer or even plain batch files, C# programs, FORTRAN programs, etc) and files on a CIFS share mapped without our fully-qualified-domain name.…
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How to speed up SMB connection between a Mac client and Isilon storage server?

So we have a Isilon Storage Cluster, and both Windows and Mac Clients connecting to it. Windows (for obvious reasons) connects and performs extremely well using SMB. OSX on the other hand, does not. Windows we see about 125MBps (essentially…
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Trying to connect to Isilon Server

I currently have an issue trying to connect 2 64bit Windows machines to an Isilon file server. I am able to ping the server as well as get to the admin web page of the Isilon, however I cannot access any of the shares. All other machines in the…
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