Your customer is moving from a Restaurant/Bar business model to a Restaurant/Casino business model. You are helping architect the upgrade of a current 4-node X200 48 TB Isilon cluster, with 50% utilized for their video surveillance operations. They want to upgrade from 15 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec, with a 15 days retention policy to 30 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec, with a 30 days retention policy. How many nodes of the same type will you need to add in order to meet the required changes and not exceed 70% raw capacity?

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The current cluster has 4 nodes with 48 TB capacity, which means each node has 12 TB capacity. The current video surveillance operations use 50% of the capacity, which means 6 TB per node. The new requirements are 30 FPS (NTSC) in H.264 codec, with a 30 days retention policy. This will require 2x the storage capacity of the current setup, which is 12 TB per node. To meet the new requirements and not exceed 70% raw capacity, we need to add 8 nodes of the same type.

Your Customer Is Moving from a Restaurant/Bar Business Model to a Restaurant/Casino