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Dell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC Lustre Storage The Dell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC Lustre Storage, referred to as
Dell EMC 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.
Figure 3: Lustre-based storage solution components