Question 21
A customer is inquiring about expanding their primary cluster consisting of six S-Series nodes in order to improve performance. They have a second cluster with 11 X-Series nodes. Both clusters leverage 1GbE, but the customer recently installed a 10GbE network that can be utilized. They also have multiple Fibre Channel SAN arrays in their environment.
They have a variety of workloads on each cluster and are in the process of determining which workloads belong on which cluster. They have discovered that one of the workloads- a SQL database that resides on the X-Series node cluster - is experiencing timeouts due to latency. The database vendor has suggested limiting latency to 5ms or less to eliminate these timeouts.
How do you advise the customer?
Question 22
What key considerations should be kept in mind when designing a 300TB solution?
Question 23
In an Isilon environment, how is InsightIQ installed?
Question 24
You are working with a healthcare company that is interested in replacing all the backend storage for their PACS system.
In general, how should the solution be presented to the customer?
Question 25
You are sizing an Isilon cluster for a new customer. Analyzing their workflow you determine that they have a large block random read workload.
What is the most important factor to consider when sizing this solution?