Need to know on isilon

[Sandeep Reddy]

Hello All,

Can you please help in creating the structure in isilon system.

my requirement:

1. when i'm posting request though API it has to create the directory or folder.

if you any have full fledged documentation on Isilon and Installation document.

onemore thing how many clusters and nodes in isilon

Please suggest me how to know more about isilon.

Thanks,

Sandeep 

[Robert Chang]

Hi Sandeep,

With regards to creating directories using the OneFS API, you certainly can do that through OneFS Restful Access to Namespace (RAN) API.  Check out the API documentations here -- https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-48273

With regards to installation and user guide for OneFS / Isilon, there are numerous docs available on the Dell/EMC site.  It would help to know which version of OneFS you are using.

Dell EMC has customers running Isilon clusters from 3 nodes all the way to the current maximum supported/tested limit of 144 nodes.  I hear most production clusters are between 8 to 40 nodes.

A good place to learn about various aspects of the Isilon scale-out NAS product and features of OneFS is at our very active user community, EMC Community Network (ECN) -- https://community.emc.com/community/products/isilon

Another good index of resources is this InfoHub page -- https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-44304

If you ask questions on the ECN site, the questions get answered very quickly.  The ECN site is referenced from the user community link above, and also here -- https://community.emc.com/community/products/isilon/content

Feel free to reach out.

[Sandeep Reddy]

Need to know how REST Api works

 

Service: createDocument

https://<mule-host>:<port>/api/<version>/<program-name>/<resource-path>/<document-name>

1 – Document: The document to be saved – you don’t actually create, streamserve does this.

2 - Folder Structure: needs to be calculated based on Program and Doc Type

3 – Metadata tags: For each document type there will be certain metadata you want to associate with that document so they can be searched based on this metadata; like 

Patient Name

Document Type (From business perspective not PDF, TIFF, etc)

 

Service: getDocument

https://<mule-host>:<port>/api/<version>/<program-name>/<resource-path>/<document-name>

program-name: how will these be separated?

resource-path: what will determine the folder structure?

document-name: what document types will be saved where?

 

The big part is how all of the data going to be managed on the NAS server and then building the APIs so they enable you to manage the data; Save new document, retrieve a document, Creating folders, how are the nodes managed.

You say each Program is on a separate node, how many programs are there?

Need to find out API search capability on metadata – if we have following attributes as metadata at the time of document creation and User search on them – than what all API we can use.

Thanks,

Sandeep

 

[Robert Chang]

Here's the section in the OneFS API documentation that will help you -- http://doc.isilon.com/onefs/8.0.0/api/en-us/04-ifs-br-file-system-access-apis.htm