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Dell Storage for HPC with Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre sofware
Figure 6: RAID6 Layout on MD3460 or MD3060e arrays
3.4 Scalability
Providing the Object Storage Servers in active/active cluster configurations yields greater throughput
and product reliability. This configuration provides high availability, decreasing maintenance
requirements and consequently reducing potential downtime.
The PowerEdge R630 server provides performance and density. The solution provides 960TB of raw
storage for each OSS pair. The solution also leverage FDR InfiniBand interconnect for very high-speed,
low-latency storage transactions or 10Gb/s Ethernet can be used for high speed, lower cost and to
allow the use of existing 10GbE infrastructures. The PowerEdge R630 takes advantage of the PCIe Gen3
interface for FDR InfiniBand, helping achieve higher network throughput per OSS.
An RPM based Lustre client, version 2.5.23, for the RHEL6.5 kernel with Mellanox OFED v.2.2-1 is
available for access to the Dell Storage for HPC with Intel EE for Lustre (for details see Error!
Reference source not found. Storage for HPC with Intel EE Lustre Configuration Guide).