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.
Question
-- 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
How the community answered
(57 responses)- A81% (46)
- B4% (2)
- C4% (2)
- D12% (7)
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