Isilon is adding iSCSI block data access to its OneFS operating system, meaning its scale-out filer product is now a scale-out, unified storage product.
There is a VMworld angle to this, with Isilon ferreting out a user, John Welter, technology VP at the North West Group, who said that with Isilon, “we can power our block databases and NFS-based VMs all from one, simple solution.”
The iSCSI access is added to the existing file-based access and shares the same pool of storage with its cloning, thin provisioning, snapshotting, tiering, replication and security.
Sam Grocott, Isilon’s marketing VP, was asked about FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) and said: “Scale-out is a challenge for all data. F