Through an RFP process administered by the University of Toronto, the ODLRC technical team has selected Dell as the hardware vendor for the cloud storage systems.
Purchased equipment includes Dell Power Edge R720xd server populated with two 2.8GHz Xeon processors, 256GB of RAM, and two 200GB SSD drives, which will be used to run the operating system and the OpenStack software. Each head unit also contains twelve 4TB SAS drives for an internal storage capacity of 48TB.
