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E20-555 · Question #136

-- Exhibit -- We have been engaged by a research hospital to help upgrade their Isilon installation. They currently have 12 previous generation Isilon nodes with 200TB of capacity and run on a 1Gbps…

The correct answer is A. 14 X-Series nodes with no SSD drives and 96GB of RAM. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

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-- Exhibit -- We have been engaged by a research hospital to help upgrade their Isilon installation. They currently have 12 previous generation Isilon nodes with 200TB of capacity and run on a 1Gbps network. They currently have 6 Illumina Hi-Seq Sequencers and an HPC cluster to process data. They would like to expand Isilon to 2PB of active data and 1PB of archive data. They use a third party data and metadata management service (IRODs) to stage data for analysis. The Isilon cluster is mainly used for analysis work with the HPC cluster. -- Exhibit -- The customer has a limited budget. What would be the best price/performance solution for their active data?

Options

  • A14 X-Series nodes with no SSD drives and 96GB of RAM
  • B17 X-Series nodes with SSD drives and 48GB of RAM.
  • C14 NL-Series nodes with 24GB of RAM
  • D12 X-Series nodes with no SSD drives and 24GB of RAM

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  • A
    81% (46)
  • B
    4% (2)
  • C
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  • D
    12% (7)

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