All test parameters and scenarios reflect standard production behavior for under storage-intensive conditions, including typical storage functions and failures. We followed best practices for recovery and break-fix issues for normal situations that might arise in a standard production environment.
We used the following parameters to perform the tests:
- All test measurements were based on active failure scenarios. Failure scenarios include drive failures and recovery, forced Isilon node failures, and node reboots.
- The IP network (Layer 2) is a flat, high-availability network with plenty of capacity, which enabled us to focus on the products we were testing.
- All tests assumed uniform distribution of bandwidth from the .