Academic Research IT Cost Overview Intended for storage needs < 5 TB

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center

Virtual Servers Costs

Server Size # of vCPU Amount of Memory

Cost

Small 1 vCPU < 8 GB $ 1,004.99

Medium 2 vCPU 8 GB – 16 GB $ 2,009.99

Large 4 vCPU 16 GB - 32 GB $ 3,055.18

Extra Large 8 vCPU > 32 GB $ 4,019.98

Below are the “One Time Costs” for Virtual Servers which includes Hardware, Software, Licensing and Ongoing Maintenance. This does not include Storage.

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X Isilon vs. NL Isilon

X-tier Isilon Tier – For single-stream or concurrent workloads. Optimized for high bandwidth, sequential activity.NL-tier Isilon Tier – Archive or Write Once Read Many (WORM) Storage.

Benchmarks* Isilon NL-tier Isilon X-tier

random write 3.2 MBps 6.5 MBps

random read 12.2 MBps 11.4 MBps**

seq write 376.8 MBps 642.7 MBps

seq read 627.6 MBps 1.06 GBps

*Based upon artificial workload and benchmarks.** X-tier Isilon nodes incorporate SSD drives for caching, which have little to no benefit for random read workloads.

Note: While performance values for Isilon NL nodes are impressive for an archive platform, note that there is a more significant impact to performance in the event of a failure / re-build when compared to X nodes. Highly concurrent or high performance data access should be reserved for X nodes.

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X-Tier Isilon Tier Storage Data Sheet

Storage Tier Replicated Backup-Nearline(Backup stored in 2

separate Datacenter locations)

Cost per 1 TB

X-tier Isilon - Replicated with Backup

Yes Yes $4,994.48

X-tier Isilon - Replicated No Backup

Yes *No $3,698.76

X-tier Isilon - No Replication With Backup

No Yes $3,310.66

X-tier Isilon - No Replication With Backup

No *No $2,061.91

Below are the “One Time Costs” for X-tier Isilon Storage which includes Hardware, Software, Licensing and Ongoing Maintenance. This does not include Server Costs. There are faster, more redundant, and highly available options available if needed.

*Approving Manager and Department Head approval is required for solutions that do not require backups as we will not be able to recover any data that is deleted or corrupted due to software or hardware failures

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NL-tier Isilon Tier Storage Costs

Storage Tier Replicated Backup-Nearline(Backup stored in 2 separate

Datacenter locations)

Cost per 1 TB

NL Isilon - Replicated with Backup

Yes Yes $3,444.79

NL Isilon - Replicated No Backup

Yes *No $2,149.07

**NL Isilon - No Replication With Backup

No Yes $2,433.68

NL Isilon - No Replication/No Backup

No *No $1,184.93

Below are the “One Time Costs” for NL Isilon Storage which includes Hardware, Software, Licensing and Ongoing Maintenance. This does not include Server Costs. There are faster, more redundant, and highly available options available if needed.

*Approving Manager and Department Head approval is required for solutions that do not require backups as we will not be able to recover any data that is deleted or corrupted due to software or hardware failures ** Recommended storage platform for most research projects