Case Study

Dell EMC PowerScale as a central storage for our virtual HPC infrastructure based on VMware.

Dell EMC PowerScale as a central storage for our virtual HPC infrastructure based on VMware.

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Case Study Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) Maurizio Davini CTO at Universita' degli Studi di Pisa Review by a Real User Verified by IT Central Station What is our primary use case? We are using Dell EMC PowerScale as a central storage for our virtual HPC infrastructure based on VMware. We have several silos today, as our HPC infrastructure is typically divided between bare- metal and virtual configurations. The storage that we use on various infrastructures is different, as we are typically using a storage style that is different from any production facility. Until now the request from our internal users was to keep the data separated in different storage silos, and converging in central storage facility while on the virtual HPC is the new request. Therefore, we are experimenting how it works

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