Hi All,

I think I figure out how to find the answer to this question but I wanted to verify my method with someone else.

Click on the calculator icon. Your customer is looking for a storage solution that will be able to store seven million three MB files which are written and seldom accessed. Read and write operations are both completed by a web based application, which requires 1.3 Gbps throughput. The customer's network has not been upgraded in many years, so the network interfaces are 1Gbps.

Which cluster configuration would best meet the customer's requirements?

3 NL400 nodes

3 X400 nodes

4 X200 nodes

5 S200 nodes

I used the following rule below and doing the math I picked the 4 X200 since that will give me 1200MBps. The other options give me more than I need and for the S200 the price would be greater as compare to the 4 X200 nodes.

The rule of thumb to repeat is: 7, 5, 3, 2 (700 MBps X400, 500 MBps S200, 300 MBps X200, and 200 MBps

NL400).