Isilon IQ Citrix Ready

Isilon Systems announced that Isilon’s X-Series clustered storage systems have been verified as Citrix Ready for XenServer. Isilon’s clustered storage systems create a high performance and highly scalable, single, shared pool of storage, delivering up to 20 Gigabytes per second of performance and 2.3 Petabytes of capacity in a single file system and single volume. By combining Isilon clustered storage with Citrix XenServer, enterprises can eliminate traditional storage as a bottleneck and create a fully virtualized infrastructure — from servers to storage — which increases data center flexibility and utilization while reducing costs.

"Citrix XenServer server virtualization makes datacenters more agile and efficient through faster application delivery, higher levels of availability and improved utilization of IT resources," said John Bryan, Director, Business Development, Citrix Systems. "Isilon IQ’s verification with our Citrix Ready program attests to its compatibility with Citrix XenServer environments, providing our customers with a compelling solution for maximizing the value of their server and storage resources."

"The enterprise data center is in the midst of a change from legacy scale- up architectures to scale out environments. Virtualization has been a key driver of this shift at the computer level while clustered storage is now driving the same transition at the data level," said Paul Rutherford, CTO, Isilon Systems. "Isilon’s X-Series clustered storage systems integrate with Citrix XenServer to provide enterprise business with a complete scale out environment to increase productivity, flexibility and resource utilization within the next generation data center."

By combining Citrix XenServer with Isilon X-Series clustered storage systems, enterprise businesses can obtain the efficiency and high availability that Citrix XenServer offers in the storage environment while eliminating the barriers associated with traditional storage. This integration provides a scale out, virtualized IT infrastructure with servers, network connections, and storage all consolidated into single points of management, improving scalability, performance and ease of use across the entire data center, while reducing costs and complexity.

Powered by OneFS, Isilon IQ X-Series delivers the industry’s first single file system that unifies and provides instant and ubiquitous access to the rapidly growing stores of file-based data, setting the standard for scale out file storage. OneFS is a unified operating system software layer that powers all of Isilon’s award-winning IQ family of clustered storage systems including the Isilon IQ 1920, 3000, 6000, 9000, 12000, Accelerator-x, and EX 6000, 9000 and 12000. Isilon also provides a robust suite of software applications including SnapshotIQ, SmartConnect, SmartQuotas, and SyncIQ that leverage OneFS and clustered storage, providing the highest levels of data protection and automated data management.