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.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
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.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
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
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
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