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Dell EMC Ready Bundle for HPC NFS Storage (NSS7.0-HA)
NSS 7.0 HA is designed to enhance the availability of storage services to the HPC cluster by using a pair of Dell EMC PowerEdge
servers with Dell EMC PowerVault™ storage arrays, Red Hat HA software stack. The two PowerEdge servers have shared access to
disk-based Dell EMC PowerVault storage in a variety of capacities, and both are directly connected to the HPC cluster using Intel
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OPA, IB or 10GbE. The two servers are equipped with two fence devices: iDRAC8 Enterprise, and an APC Power Distribution Unit
(PDU). If system failures occur on one server, the HA cluster will failover the storage service to the healthy server with the assistance of
the two fence devices and also ensure that the failed server does not return to life without the administrator’s knowledge or control.
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. Intel
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Enterprise Edition (EE) for Lustre
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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) greatly simplifies deploying, managing and monitoring all the hardware and storage system
components. It is easy to scale in capacity, performance or both, thereby providing a convenient path to expand in the future.
The Dell EMC HPC Lustre Storage solution utilizes the 13th generation of enterprise Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and the latest
generation of high-density PowerVault storage products. With full hardware and software support from Dell EMC and Intel, the Dell
EMC Ready Bundle for HPC Lustre Storage solution delivers a superior combination of performance, reliability, density, ease of use
and cost-effectiveness.
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