PowerScale OneFS

Supportability and Compatibility Guide

9.2.1.0

August 2021
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 Contents

Chapter 1: PowerScale Supportability and Compatibility............................................................... 4

Introduction...........................................................................................................................................................................4

Chapter 2: Software......................................................................................................................5
OneFS upgrade compatibility............................................................................................................................................5
Streaming Data Platform................................................................................................................................................... 5
ECS......................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
PowerScale SyncIQ............................................................................................................................................................. 7
PowerScale SyncIQ compatibility.............................................................................................................................. 7
DataIQ.....................................................................................................................................................................................7
InsightIQ.................................................................................................................................................................................8
Secure Remote Support.................................................................................................................................................... 8
OneFS/VMware ESXi compatibility................................................................................................................................ 9
Isilon SRA for VMware SRM............................................................................................................................................. 9
VAAI NAS plug-in for OneFS............................................................................................................................................ 9
VMware vSphere API for Storage Awareness (VASA)............................................................................................ 10
EMC Storage Analytics (ESA) module for Isilon........................................................................................................ 10
IsilonSD Edge...................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Authentication providers...................................................................................................................................................11
Supported clients................................................................................................................................................................11
Web browsers......................................................................................................................................................................11
Aspera Enterprise Server................................................................................................................................................. 12
OneFS Simulator................................................................................................................................................................ 12
OneFS Anti-virus compatibility....................................................................................................................................... 13

Chapter 3: Protocols....................................................................................................................14
File system protocols........................................................................................................................................................ 14
HDFS (Hadoop).................................................................................................................................................................. 14
SNMP....................................................................................................................................................................................15

Chapter 4: Hardware....................................................................................................................16
OneFS and node compatibility........................................................................................................................................ 16
Node class compatibility...................................................................................................................................................18
Drive and node compatibility........................................................................................................................................... 19
Node firmware package (NFP).......................................................................................................................................19
Drive support package (DSP)......................................................................................................................................... 19
Optional 2x10GbE + 2x8GB Fibre Channel network interface card (NIC).......................................................... 20
Qualified Generation 6 optics for front-end NICs..................................................................................................... 20
Qualified Generation 5 10 GbE (SFP/SFP+) transceivers...................................................................................... 20
Qualified Generation 5 40 GbE transceivers............................................................................................................... 21
Generation 4 10 GbE (SFP/SFP+) transceivers........................................................................................................ 21

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PowerScale Supportability and Compatibility
This guide provides supportability and compatibility information for PowerScale software and hardware.
Topics:
• Introduction

Introduction
Refer to this guide for supportability and compatibility information for PowerScale hardware and software products.
General availability (GA) or Ready to Ship (RTS) denotes OneFS releases that are available to install. A OneFS release can be
installed into any production environment with hardware that supports this version. To ensure that your clusters are running
the most stable and reliable version of OneFS, upgrade to the latest version of OneFS for the OneFS family that meets your
business needs.
See the Current Isilon Software Releases guide for the list of current RTS and Target Code versions of OneFS.
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Software
This section contains information about PowerScale software compatibility.
Topics:
• OneFS upgrade compatibility
• Streaming Data Platform
• ECS
• PowerScale SyncIQ
• DataIQ
• InsightIQ
• Secure Remote Support
• OneFS/VMware ESXi compatibility
• Isilon SRA for VMware SRM
• VAAI NAS plug-in for OneFS
• VMware vSphere API for Storage Awareness (VASA)
• EMC Storage Analytics (ESA) module for Isilon
• IsilonSD Edge
• Authentication providers
• Supported clients
• Web browsers
• Aspera Enterprise Server
• OneFS Simulator
• OneFS Anti-virus compatibility

OneFS upgrade compatibility

This section lists available OneFS upgrade compatibility information.
To plan for and perform a OneFS upgrade, you must follow the procedures that are detailed in the OneFS Upgrade Planning and
Process Guide. Rolling and simultaneous upgrades are supported for all upgrades from OneFS 8.0.1 and later. Parallel upgrades
are supported for all upgrades from OneFS 8.2.2 and later. See the Isilon Info Hub for the release notes for the version of OneFS
that you are installing.
You can download the latest version of OneFS for your cluster from the Dell Product Support website.
For information about the support and service lifecycle dates for Isilon hardware and software products, see the PowerScale
Product Availability Guide.

Streaming Data Platform

This section describes the compatibility of various software components with the versions of Streaming Data Platform.
Streaming Data Platform is a scalable, secure, and manageable turn-key platform that enables enterprise customers to leverage
the value of analyzing real-time streaming data for business insights. It processes many data streams from multiple sources with
low latency. Apache Flink supports both stream and batch analytics.

Table 1. Streaming Data Platform Compatibility

Component Description SDP 1.0 SDP 1.1 SDP-Core 1.2 SDP-Edge 1.2
Apache Flink Apache Flink 1.8.x, 1.8.x, 1.9.x, 1.10 1.8.x, 1.9.x, 1.10 1.10, 1.11 1.10, 1.11
1.9.x, 1.10, 1.11

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Table 1. Streaming Data Platform Compatibility (continued)
Component Description SDP 1.0 SDP 1.1 SDP-Core 1.2 SDP-Edge 1.2
Apache Apache Spark 2.4.7, 2.4.7, 3.0.0 2.4.7, 3.0.0
Spark 3.0.0
Kubernetes SDP requires PKS 1.5.1 PKS 1.6.1 (required) OpenShift 4.6.8 KubeSpray 2.14.2
Platform a Kubernetes
environment and
is tested for
compatibility. The
Pivotal Container
Service (PKS) is not
supported after SDP
1.1.
Dell Long-term storage OneFS 8.2.x OneFS 9.0.0.x 8.2.x, 9.x 8.2.x, 9.x
PowerScale (option of either (minimum) Isilon PowerScale cluster
OneFS ECS or PowerScale cluster with NFSv4 with NFSv4 enabled
OneFS at SDP enabled on Gen5 or on Gen6 or later
installation) later
Dell ECS Long-term storage N/A ECS object storage ECS object storage Not supported
(option of either appliance with appliance with ECS
ECS or PowerScale ECS 3.4.0.2 or 3.5.1.4 and later,
OneFS at SDP 3.4.0.3 software ECS 3.6.1.1 and later,
installation) and a namespace and 3.7.0.9 and later
containing S3
buckets
Secure Secure Remote SRS 3.38 SRS 3.38 (minimum) SRS 3.38 (minimum) SRS 3.38 (minimum)
Remote Services Gateway (minimum)
Services 3.38 (minimum)
(SRS)
Gateway

For more information, see the Streaming Data Platform Info Hub.

ECS
This section describes the compatibility of OneFS with the versions of Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS).
This table lists the compatible version of ECS.

Table 2. ECS Compatibility

ECS OneFS 8.1.2 OneFS 8.2.0 OneFS 8.2.2 OneFS 9.0 OneFS 9.1.0 OneFS 9.2.0
version
ECS 3.1 ✓
ECS 3.2 ✓ ✓
ECS 3.3 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
ECS 3.4 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
ECS 3.5 ✓ ✓
ECS 3.6 ✓
ECS 3.6.1 ✓

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PowerScale SyncIQ
This section describes the versions of OneFS that can be synchronized using SyncIQ.
SyncIQ delivers fast replication of millions of files and terabytes of data over the WAN and LAN. SyncIQ enables replication jobs
to be run in parallel and evenly distributed across all sending and all receiving nodes in the Isilon storage clusters.
NOTE: Features available in newer versions of OneFS might not work in earlier versions of OneFS when you sync newer
OneFS versions to earlier versions.
For information about SyncIQ, see the Dell EMC Isilon SyncIQ Data Sheet.

PowerScale SyncIQ compatibility

The table in this section shows the versions of OneFS that can be synchronized using SyncIQ.

Target cluster running OneFS

Source Cluster
8.x 9.0.0.x 9.1.0.x 9.2.x
OneFS 8.x ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
OneFS 9.0.0.x ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
OneFS 9.1.0.x ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
OneFS 9.2.x ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

DataIQ
This section describes OneFS and DataIQ compatibility.
Dell EMC DataIQ is a tool that helps manage unstructured data storage environments. It includes storage monitoring features for
Dell EMC PowerScale and Isilon systems, and file system management features that help manage data across clusters and and
S3-compatible storage systems, including Amazon Web Services, Dell PowerScale, Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Service, and Google
Cloud Platform.

DataIQ and OneFS compatibility

OneFS 8.x OneFS 9.0.0.x OneFS 9.1.0.0 OneFS 9.2.x
DataIQ 1.0.0.11 ✓ ✓ ✓
DataIQ 2.0.0.0 ✓ ✓ ✓
DataIQ 2.1.0.0 ✓ ✓ ✓
DataIQ 2.1.1.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
DataIQ 2.1.1.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

DataIQ upgrade paths

The following table lists the upgrade options for DataIQ.

Upgrade to DataIQ
Upgrade from 2.x
DataIQ 1.0 ✓

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InsightIQ
This section describes OneFS and InsightIQ compatibility.
InsightIQ is an off-cluster performance and analytics tool that identifies performance bottlenecks in a cluster.
Depending on the version of OneFS that the monitored cluster is running, certain InsightIQ features might not be available. For
information about InsightIQ, see the PowerScale InsightIQ webpage.
You can access the InsightIQ application through any current web browser that supports sophisticated graphics. For more
information about supported browsers, see the Web browsers section in this document.
The InsightIQ web application interface is optimized for a screen that is 1,280 resolutions wide.

NOTE: OneFS 8.x File System Analytics (FSA) statistics are compatible only with InsightIQ 4.0 and later releases.

InsightIQ and OneFS compatibility

OneFS 8.1.x OneFS 8.2.x OneFS 9.0.0.0 OneFS 9.1.0.0 OneFS 9.2.x
InsightIQ 4.1.2 ✓
InsightIQ 4.1.3 ✓ † † †
InsightIQ 4.1.4 ✓ † † †
InsightIQ
✓ † † † †
4.1.4.60

† Supported with some limitations.

InsightIQ upgrade paths

The following table lists the upgrade options for InsightIQ.

Upgrade to 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 4.1.4

Upgrade from
4.1.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
4.1.1 ✓ ✓ ✓
4.1.2 ✓ ✓
4.1.3 ✓

Secure Remote Support

The table in this section lists the compatible versions of OneFS and Secure Remote Services (SRS).
SRS, formerly EMC Secure Remote Services (ESRS), provides remote support capability for your Isilon cluster. SRS enables
technical support personnel to remotely manage your PowerScale cluster to troubleshoot an open support case with your
permission.
SRS is a proactive, IP-based, bi-directional remote servicing capability for customer SRS Dell Technologies products. SRS is
secure, high speed, and operates 24x7.
See the Remote support section of the PowerScale OneFS CLI Administration Guide's General Cluster Administration chapter
for more information.

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SRS OneFS 8.0.x OneFS 8.1.x OneFS 8.2.x OneFS 9.0.0.x OneFS 9.1.0.x OneFS 9.2.x
SRS Gateway ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
2.x
SRS Gateway ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
3.x (VE)

OneFS/VMware ESXi compatibility

The table in this section lists the compatible versions of OneFS and VMware ESXi.

OneFS Storage Certification for NAS

8.1.0 8.1.2
ESXi 6.0 ✓ ✓
ESXi 6.5 ✓ ✓
ESXi 6.7 ✓ ✓

NOTE: OneFS 8.1.1 is not certified with any version of VMware ESXi.

Isilon SRA for VMware SRM

The table in this section lists the compatible versions of OneFS, Isilon Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for VMware, and
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Isilon OneFS supports SRM 6.0 and SRM 6.1.
Isilon Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) enables VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to manage the replication of
VMware ESXi server virtual machines running on Isilon clusters.
VMware SRM facilitates the migration and disaster recovery of virtual machines that are stored on Isilon clusters. Isilon SRA
enables VMware vCenter SRM to automatically manage the setup, testing, and failover components of the disaster recovery
processes for Isilon clusters. You can manage the replication of virtual machines (VMs) stored on one Isilon cluster to another
Isilon cluster.
Before you can install the Isilon Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM), you
must set up two vCenter servers. These vCenter servers are called the primary and secondary sites. Pair the primary and
secondary sites through VMware SRM and create a VMware datastore on the primary site that resides on an Isilon cluster.
For more information, see the Isilon SRA for VMware SRM Release Notes.

NOTE: Where provided, an exact OneFS version number indicates the minimum version of OneFS that is required.

Platforms OneFS version

Isilon NL-Series 7.2.1, 8.0.0, 8.0.1
Isilon S-Series 7.2.1, 8.0.0, 8.0.1
Isilon X-Series 7.2.1, 8.0.0, 8.0.1

VAAI NAS plug-in for OneFS

The table in this section lists the compatible versions of OneFS, the VMware vSphere API for Array Integration (VAAI) plug-in
for OneFS, and VMware ESXi.
The VMware vSphere API for Array Integration (VAAI) integrates VMware vSphere with an Isilon cluster to clone virtual disks, to
create thick virtual disk files, and to monitor disk space.
The OneFS operating system uses VAAI to perform certain storage and management operations for VMware ESXi hypervisors.
VAAI increases the speed at which virtual machine (VM) operations are performed for VMs that are stored on Isilon clusters.

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For more information, see the Isilon Plug-ins for VMware webpage on the EMC Online Support website.

ESXi Version OneFS Compatibility

8.1.0: 8.1.2:
ESXi 6.0 VAAI 1.2.4 VAAI 1.2.4
ESXi 6.5 VAAI 1.2.4 VAAI 1.2.4
ESXi 6.7 VAAI 1.2.4 VAAI 1.2.4

NOTE: VAAI 1.2.4 is compatible with ESXi 6.7 but must be installed using the OneFS CLI. Installing using VUM fails.

NOTE: OneFS 8.1.1 is not certified with any version of the VAAI NAS plug-in.

VMware vSphere API for Storage Awareness (VASA)

The table in this section lists the compatible versions of OneFS, the VMware vSphere API for Storage Awareness (VASA), and
VMware ESXi.
OneFS supports the following VASA versions using the specified VMware ESXi versions.

OneFS Compatibility
8.1 8.1.2
VASA 1.0-ESXi 6.0 ✓ ✓
VASA 1.0 - ESXi 6.5 ✓ ✓
VASA 1.0 - ESXi 6.7 ✓ ✓

EMC Storage Analytics (ESA) module for Isilon

The table in this section lists the compatible versions of OneFS and EMC Storage Analytics (ESA) for Isilon.
EMC Storage Analytics (ESA) links VMware vRealize Operations Manager with the EMC Adapter, also referenced as EMC
Storage Analytics Connector, to monitor and analyze the performance and health of storage applications.
An Isilon adapter instance is bundled within the EMC Adapter and collects the performance metrics for an Isilon cluster. You can
install ESA and configure the Isilon adapter instance by following the instructions in the EMC Storage Analytics Installation and
User Guide. See the EMC Storage Analytics for Isilon Technical Note for details.

OneFS Compatibility
ESA Module for Isilon 7.2.1 8.0.x
ESA Module for Isilon 4.0 ✓ ✓

IsilonSD Edge
The table in this section lists the compatible versions of IsilonSD Edge, IsilonSD Management Server, and VMware ESXi and
vCenter Server.

VMware vCenter and ESXi Versions Supported IsilonSD Management Supported OneFS VM Versions
Server Versions
6.0 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.1.0 8.1.0.0, 8.1.2
6.5 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.1.0 8.1.0.0, 8.1.2
6.7 1.1.1, 1.1.2 8.1.2

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IsilonSD Edge is not supported in OneFS 8.2.0 and later releases. See the IsilonSD Edge With IsilonSD Management Server
Release Notes corresponding to your management server version for the latest supportability information.

Authentication providers
The table in this section lists the remote authentication providers compatible with OneFS.
OneFS supports the following remote authentication providers to verify that users attempting to access the cluster are who
they claim to be. For information about how to connect OneFS to an authentication provider, see the OneFS Administration
Guide in the OneFS Info Hub.
The following table compares features that are available with each of the authentication providers that OneFS supports. In
the following table, an x indicates that a feature is fully supported by a provider; an asterisk (*) indicates that additional
configuration or support from another provider is required.

Authentication NTLM Kerberos User/group Netgroups UNIX properties Windows

provider management (RFC 2307) properties
Active Directory x x * x
LDAP * x x x *
NIS x x
Local x x x x
File x x x
MIT Kerberos x * * *

Supported clients
The table in this section lists the clients that are supported by OneFS.
OneFS supports the following clients. Clients running OS X can connect to a Isilon cluster using the NFS or SMB protocol.

Supported Clients
Any NFS client that complies with NFSv3 or NFSv4.0 client implementations compliant with RFC1813 and RFC3530
respectively.
Implementations of SMB1 provided in Microsoft Windows operating systems, and SMB2/3 systems compliant with the Open
Specifications document MS-SMB2.

EMC Isilon tests SMB clients that are covered under Microsoft's Extended Support Policy and the following:
● OS X 10.9
● OS X 10.10
● OS X 10.11

MacOS X
Clients running MacOS X can connect to a Isilon cluster using the NFS or SMB protocol. To take advantage of Apple-specific
SMB2 features such as color tagging, enable the Apple extensions for SMB2.

Web browsers
The OneFS and InsightIQ web interfaces support most modern web browsers with JavaScript, cookies, and SSL enabled. In
OneFS versions earlier than OneFS 8.2, Adobe Flash is required to view charts.
The OneFS and InsightIQ web interfaces were tested with the following web browsers. OneFS and InsightIQ might work with
different browsers or newer browser versions that have not been tested for compatibility. Exercise caution before using an
unsupported browser.

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Browser InsightIQ Compatibility
Chrome Use the latest stable version of Chrome.
Firefox Use the latest stable version of Firefox.
Internet Explorer Internet Explorer 11 (works with IIQ 4.x)
Microsoft Edge Use the latest stable version of Microsoft Edge.
Safari (MacOS X) Safari 9 (works with IIQ 4.0)
Safari 10 (works with IIQ 4.0, 4.1)

Aspera Enterprise Server

The table in this section lists the versions of Aspera Enterprise Server that are supported by OneFS.
Each version of the OneFS operating system might require a different version of Aspera Enterprise Server. The following table
lists the versions of Aspera Enterprise Server that are compatible with OneFS.

OneFS Compatibility
Aspera Version 8.1.0.x
Aspera 3.7.3 ✓

NOTE: Aspera is not supported in OneFS 8.2.0 and later.

OneFS Simulator
This section lists the system requirements for installing OneFS Simulator virtual nodes.
OneFS Simulator is a virtual version of the physical storage nodes that you can deploy in a physical infrastructure.
Before you install a virtual node, verify that your system meets the requirements for the virtual version of OneFS. At least three
virtual nodes are required to create an Isilon OneFS virtual cluster.
Virtual nodes are for demonstration purposes only and are ineligible for support or repair by Isilon Technical Support.

Component Value Notes

RAM A minimum of 6 GB RAM for a virtual Virtual nodes might not function
node is the default requirement. correctly if they do not meet the
recommended memory requirements.
6 GB RAM is recommended per virtual
NOTE: Other nodes that are added
node per ESXi host.
to your virtual environment to
provide services, such as the Active
Directory domain controller service
or DNS service, have additional
memory requirements.

Processor VT-capable processor Virtualization technology must be

enabled in the BIOS.
Hard drive 42 GB of disk space per virtual node for
a fully populated virtual cluster
Operating system The following operating systems have All the procedures in this guide are based
been tested for and validated for the on the Microsoft Windows operating
installation: system. Some of the steps in the
● Microsoft Windows (recommended) procedures might differ based on your
● Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 (Linux) host operating system.

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Component Value Notes

NOTE: Other Linux versions should

be supported if VMware products
are supported.

Virtual infrastructure Standalone components: Install at least one stand-alone

● VMware Server component.
● VMware Fusion If you are installing VMware Workstation,
● VMware Workstation VMware Player, or VMware Fusion, make
● VMware Player certain that the external network is
configured as a bridged network and not
as a NAT network. This configuration
allows the clients to access the virtual
nodes.
VMware Player is available at: http://
www.vmware.com/products/player/

OneFS Anti-virus compatibility

PowerScale OneFS supports the ICAP standard.
PowerScaleOneFS supports all anti-virus software that follows the ICAP standard.

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Protocols
This chapter includes the following topics.
Topics:
• File system protocols
• HDFS (Hadoop)
• SNMP

File system protocols

The tables in this section list the file system protocols that are compatible with OneFS.
OneFS supports the Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB) file system protocols. For information about
how to configure NFS and SMB for OneFS, see the OneFS Administration Guide on the OneFS Info Hub for your OneFS version.

NOTE: Where provided, an exact OneFS version number indicates the minimum version of OneFS that is required.

NFS
NFS is a client and server application that lets users view and optionally store and update files on a network as if the files were
saved in a local file directory. The NFS protocol is independent of the computer, operating system, network architecture, and
transport protocol.

OneFS Compatibility
NFS 8.1.x 8.2.x 9.0.0.x 9.1.0.x 9.2.x
NFS 3 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
NFS 4.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

SMB
Windows systems use the SMB Internet protocol to share files, printers, and serial ports.

SMB OneFS Compatibility

8.1.x 8.2.x 9.0.0.x 9.1.0.x 9.2.x
SMB 1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SMB 2 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SMB 2.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SMB 3.x ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

HDFS (Hadoop)
OneFS supports many distributions of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
Hadoop is an open-source software project that enables distributed processing of large datasets across clusters of servers.
Hadoop is for situations where you want to quickly and cost-effectively run analytics that are deep and computationally

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extensive. Hadoop distributions are updated independently of OneFS and on their own schedules. For the latest information
about Hadoop distributions that OneFS supports, see Hadoop Distributions and Products Supported by OneFS on the Hadoop
Information Hub.
For information about how PowerScale Scale-out NAS can be used to support a Hadoop data analytics workflow, see Isilon Best
Practices Guide for Hadoop Data Storage.

SNMP
OneFS supports the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).This section lists the compatible versions of SNMP and
OneFS.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol for network management. Use SNMP to remotely monitor
hardware components (for example, fans, hardware sensors, power supplies, and disks) and software or subsystems for
network-connected devices (for example, network interfaces, servers, switches, and CPU use). You can enable SNMP
monitoring on individual nodes on your cluster. You can also monitor cluster information from any node.
For information about how to configure SNMP for OneFS, see the OneFS Administration Guide on the OneFS Info Hub.

OneFS Compatibility
SNMP 8.1.x
SNMP 2c ✓
SNMP 3 ✓

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Hardware
The tables in this section contain OneFS and hardware compatibility information.
Topics:
• OneFS and node compatibility
• Node class compatibility
• Drive and node compatibility
• Node firmware package (NFP)
• Drive support package (DSP)
• Optional 2x10GbE + 2x8GB Fibre Channel network interface card (NIC)
• Qualified Generation 6 optics for front-end NICs
• Qualified Generation 5 10 GbE (SFP/SFP+) transceivers
• Qualified Generation 5 40 GbE transceivers
• Generation 4 10 GbE (SFP/SFP+) transceivers

OneFS and node compatibility

The tables in this section lists compatible versions of OneFS, PowerScale and Isilon nodes. Where provided, an exact version
number indicates the minimum version of OneFS that is required.

PowerScale nodes
The following are the PowerScale nodes for OneFS 9.0.0.0 and later.

PowerScale Compatibility
Node 9.0.0.0 9.2.0.0 9.2.1.0
A3000 ✓
A300 ✓
H7000 ✓
H700 ✓
F900 ✓ ✓
F600 ✓ ✓ ✓
F200 ✓ ✓ ✓

Isilon Generation 6 nodes

The following are Isilon Generation 6 platforms. Generation 6 node types require OneFS 8.1.0 and later releases.
● F-Series (F800, F810)
● H-Series (H400, H500, H600, H5600)
● A-Series (A200, A2000)
NOTE: F810 nodes require OneFS 8.1.3 or OneFS 8.2.1 and later releases.

NOTE: H5600 nodes require OneFS 8.2.0 and later releases.

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 OneFS Compatibility
Node 8.1.x 8.2.x 9.0.0.x 9.1.0.x 9.2.0.0 9.2.1.0
F800 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
F810 8.1.3 8.2.1 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
H400 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
H500 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
H600 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
H5600 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
A200 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
A2000 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Isilon Generation 4 and Generation 5 nodes

The following are Isilon Generation 4 and Generation 5 platforms.
● S-Series – The answer for ultra-performance primary storage, purpose-built for high transactional and IOPS-intensive
applications.
● X-Series – Strikes a balance between large capacity and high performance for high throughput and high concurrency
applications.
● NL- and HD-Series – Designed to provide cost-effective, scalable near-line storage.

Isilon S-Series and X-Series nodes

OneFS Compatibility
Node 8.1.x 8.2.x 9.0.0.x 9.1.0.x 9.2.x
S200 ✓
S210 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
X200 ✓
X210 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
X400 ✓
X410 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Isilon NL-Series and HD-Series nodes

OneFS Compatibility
Node 8.1.x 8.2.x 9.0.0.x 9.1.0.x 9.2.x
HD400 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
NL400 ✓
NL410 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

Isilon backup and performance accelerator nodes

Where provided, an exact version number indicates the minimum version of OneFS that is required. For example, the A100
accelerator nodes are compatible with OneFS 7.1.x and later.

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 OneFS Compatibility
Node 8.1.x 8.2.x 9.0.0.x 9.1.0.x 9.2.x
A100 Backup ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Accelerator
A100 Performance ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Accelerator

Node class compatibility

Node class compatibility enables deployment of a newer-generation node to a SmartPools node pool that contains nodes from
an earlier generation.
If the node classes are compatible, you can join a newer-generation node to an existing cluster of earlier-generation nodes. The
newer-generation node becomes a member of an existing node pool. For example, if the cluster has a node pool that is made up
of Isilon X200 nodes, you can define a compatibility that allows the addition of an X210 node to the same node pool.
OneFS supports compatibilities for S200/ S210, X200/X210, X400/X410, and NL400/ NL410 nodes.
The requirements are:
● Same node series (S, X, or NL)
● Same number of HDDs, SEDs, and SSDs
● Same HDD and SSD layouts
● Compatible node generations must have a compatible memory configuration
● Compatible RAM

Table 3. S200/S210 Compatibility

S200 RAM S210 RAM
24 GB 32 GB
48 GB 64 GB
96 GB 128 GB
256 GB

Table 4. X200/X210 Compatibility

X200 RAM X210 RAM
6 GB 24 GB (Requires OneFS 8.1 and later releases)
12 GB
24 GB 24 GB
48 GB 48 GB

Table 5. X400/X410 Compatibility

X400 RAM X410 RAM
24 GB 32 GB
48 GB 64 GB
96 GB 128 GB
192 GB 256 GB

Table 6. NL400/NL410 Compatibility

NL400 RAM NL410 RAM
12 GB 24 GB (Requires OneFS 8.1 and later releases)

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NL400 RAM NL410 RAM
24 GB 24 GB
48 GB 48 GB

Table 7. A200/A2000 Compatibility

A200 RAM A2000 RAM
16 GB 16 GB
64 GB 64 GB

NOTE: To mix 16 GB and 64 GB nodes in the same pool, the cluster has to be running OneFS 8.2.2+. The 64 GB nodes
should be kept in a separate pool for high workload environments.

Drive and node compatibility

This section contains information about drive and node compatibility.
For information about the brands of drives that are compatible with Isilon nodes and OneFS, contact your Isilon sales
representative or Isilon Technical Support. For information about how drives are arranged in a node or how to replace a drive,
see the hardware documentation for your brand of node. Hardware documentation is available from the Dell Online Support
website.

Node firmware package (NFP)

The table in this section lists the Node Firmware Packages that are compatible with Isilon and PowerScale nodes.
PowerScale Technical Support provides node Firmware Packages. For information about Node Firmware Packages, see the
product documentation that is available from the Dell Online Support website.

Node Type 9.3.5 10.x 11.x

PowerScale: A3000, A300, ✓
H7000, H700, F900, F200,
F600
Generation 6:F800, F810, ✓ ✓
H600, H500, H400, H5600,
A2000
Generation 5:S210, X210, ✓ ✓
X410, NL410, HD400
Generation 4:S200, X200, ✓
X400, NL400

If you are running Generation 4, update your firmware with Node Firmware Package 9.3.5. The S210, X210, X410, and NL410
nodes are compatible with Node Firmware Package 9.0.1 and later. F810 nodes require OneFS 8.1.3. For the F810, contact your
Account Team. Some F-Series, H-Series, and A200 and A2000 nodes are compatible with OneFS 8.1.x and later releases.

Drive support package (DSP)

PowerScale drive support packages contain drive firmware updates for Isilon clusters and PowerScale clusters.
Installing the latest drive support package allows you to update the drive firmware to the latest supported revisions.
You can install a drive support package if your cluster contains only the following node types:
● PowerScale: A3000, A300, H7000, H700, F900, F200, F600

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● Generation 6: F800, F810, H5600, H600, H500, H400, A200, A2000
● Generation 5: S210, X210, X410, NL410, HD400
● Generation 4: S200, X200, X400, NL400
F900 nodes require 9.2.0.0, and A3000, A300, H7000, and H700 nodes require 9.2.1.0. F200 and F600 nodes require OneFS
9.0.0.x and later releases. F810 nodes require OneFS 8.1.3 or OneFS 8.2.1 and later releases. H5600 nodes require OneFS 8.2.0
and later releases.
For information about installing and applying drive support packages and information about preparing OneFS before updating
drive firmware, see the product documentation that is available from the Dell Online Support website.

Optional 2x10GbE + 2x8GB Fibre Channel network

interface card (NIC)
You can enable two-way NDMP sessions by configuring a node with the optional 2x10GbE + 2x8GB Fibre Channel network
interface card (NIC) on Generation 6 nodes.
This special NIC is required to allow Gen6 to interface with tape libraries. A 2x10GE + 2x8GB Fibre Channel NIC is a hybrid host
bus adapter (HBA) that enables two-way NDMP sessions over the Fibre Channel port. Contact Dell EMC Professional Services
to enable support for the 2x10GbE + 2x8GB Fibre Channel NIC.

NOTE: This optional NIC requires OneFS 8.2.0 or later.

Qualified Generation 6 optics for front-end NICs

This section lists the Generation 6 optics that Dell EMC has qualified for front-end network interface cards (NICs).

Optic Part number Cable lengths supported

8 GE SFP+ Fiber Channel 019-078-042 100M OM3
Optic
150M OM4

10 GE SFP+ Optic 019-078-041 100M OM3

150M OM4

25 GE QSFP+ Optic 105-001-327-00 100M OM3

150M OM4

40 GE QSFP+ Optic 019-078-046 100M OM3

150M OM4

Qualified Generation 5 10 GbE (SFP/SFP+)

transceivers
This section lists the supported and recommended NICs, compatible nodes, and the supported and recommended10GbE (SFP/
SFP+) transceivers for Generation 5 nodes.
NOTE: Because of the quantity and variety of SFP/SFP+ transceivers that exist, Isilon cannot test or qualify all the
transceivers that are available. It is possible that some SFP/SFP+ transceivers that have been reported to work by other
sources might not work in all environments. Contact your Isilon sales representative if you have any questions.
The following are the supported network interface cards (NICs) and compatible nodes.

NICs Compatible Nodes

QLogic/Broadcom S210, X210, X410, NL410, HD400

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NICs Compatible Nodes
Intel A100 Performance Accelerator

10GE transceivers
Manufacturer Isilon Part number Isilon Certified Type
Finisar 047-0001-01 Yes Optical, Multimode
Foxconn 047-0001-01 Yes Optical, Multimode
Lumentum 047-0001-01 Yes Optical, Multimode

Qualified Generation 5 40 GbE transceivers

The table in this section lists the supported and recommended 40 GbE (QSFP/QSFP+) transceivers for Generation 5 nodes.
NOTE: Because of the quantity and variety of 40 GbE transceivers that exist, Isilon cannot test or qualify all the
transceivers that are available. It is possible that some 40GbE transceivers that have been reported to work by other
sources might not work in all environments. Contact your Isilon sales representative if you have any questions.
The following are the supported network interface cards (NICs) and compatible nodes.

NICs Compatible Nodes

QLogic/Broadcom S210, X210, X410, NL410, HD400
Intel A100 Performance Accelerator

Manufacturer Isilon Part number Isilon Certified Type Works with NIC
Cisco* QSFP-40G- SR-BD See Note. BiDi Optic* Mellanox
Finisar 047-0002-01 Yes Optical, Multimode [SR] Mellanox
Foxconn 047-0002-01 Yes Optical, Multimode [SR] Mellanox

*Not sold by Dell Technologies. Qualified for use only Mellanox 40 GE NIC and Cisco 9332PQ switch.
NOTE: 40 GE NICs require the following minimum firmware level to support the Cisco BiDi Optics:
● Mellanox 2.40.5030

Generation 4 10 GbE (SFP/SFP+) transceivers

The table in this section lists 10 GbE (SFP/SFP+) transceivers that Isilon has certified or that other sources have indicated work
with Isilon Generation 4 nodes.
NOTE: Because of the quantity and variety of SFP/SFP+ transceivers that exist, Isilon cannot test or qualify all the
transceivers that are available. It is possible that some SFP/SFP+ transceivers that have been reported to work by other
sources might not work in all environments. Contact your Isilon sales representative if you have any questions.
The following are the supported network interface cards (NICs) and compatible nodes.

NICs Compatible Nodes

Chelsio S200, X200, X400, NL400

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Manufacturer Isilon Part number MFR Part number Isilon Certified Type
Chelsio 047-0001-01 SM10G-SR Yes Optical, Multimode
Finisar 047-0001-01 FTLX8574D3BNL-E5 Yes Optical, Multimode
Foxconn 047-0001-01 AFBR-709SMZ Yes Optical, Multimode
Lumentum 047-0001-01 PLRXPL-SC-S43-41B Yes Optical, Multimode

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