OneFS 6.x - So Long Dear Friend

As many will have seen, EMC have given notice that OneFS 6.x and 6.5.x will be going end-of-life during the next twelve months.

Having worked with Isilon storage since OneFS3.something_nasty, OneFS6.5 has long been my favourite outing of the scale-out filesystem.  In fact, 6.5 has been such a good product for me that I completely skipped 7.0.x and have only recently truly embraced OneFS 7.1.x.

The OneFS 6 product line gave us so many feature, key among them SmartPools, Kerberised NFS v3 and a much improved SyncIQ.

As I still have a number of systems running 6.5, I intend to keep blogging about OneFS6.5 until it becomes irrelevant, but will also be providing more posts on 7.1.x.

OneFS7.1 is slowly becoming a mature and stable storage OS, that will, I'm sure, take the crown of my favourite scale-out filesystem very soon.

The Long Road Back

It has been a little over a year since my last blog post, this was not intentional, but the result of a family bereavement and me taking time to reflect on life.

I am still a supporter of the Isilon technology and a keen believer in the importance of sharing knowledge and experience, so am pleased to make my return to this blog.