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• The NFS servers were connected to the clients by using the public network. This network was Intel
OPA.
• For the HA functionality of the NFS servers, a private 1 Gigabit Ethernet network was configured to
monitor server health and heartbeat, and to provide a route for the fencing operations by using a Dell
Networking 3048-ON Gigabit Ethernet switch.
• Power to the NFS servers was provided by two APC switched PDUs on two separate power buses.
Figure 2 NSS7.0-HA test bed
2.3.2 Dell EMC HPC Lustre Storage Solution
The Dell EMC HPC Lustre Storage Solution, referred to as Dell HPC Lustre Storage is designed for academic
and industry users who need to deploy a fully-supported, easy-to-use, high-throughput, scale-out and cost-
effective parallel file system storage solution. The solution uses the Intel® Enterprise Edition (EE) for Lustre®
software v.3.0. It is a scale-out storage solution appliance capable of providing a high performance and high
availability storage system. Utilizing an intelligent, extensive and intuitive management interface, the Intel
Manager for Lustre (IML), the solution greatly simplifies deploying, managing and monitoring all of the
hardware and storage system components. It is easy to scale in capacity, performance or both, thereby
providing a convenient path to grow in the future. Figure 3shows the relationship of the MDS, MDT, MGS,
OSS and OST components of a typical Lustre configuration. Clients in the figure are the HPC cluster’s
compute nodes. The solution is 120 drive system configuration (60 drives per PowerVault MD3460) with 12
OSTs. Each OST consists of 10x 4TB drives. Total raw storage size is 480TB.