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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability Configurations with Large Capacities

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NSS5-HA 360TB architecture

Public network

Private network

Power

Storage connections

Public network

(IB or 10GbE)

Clients

NSS5-HA 360TB

configuration

R620 R620

Private network

PDU

1 RBOD + 1

EBOD

Although Dell NSS-HA solutions have received many hardware and software upgrades to support higher

availability, higher performance, and larger storage capacity since the first NSS-HA release, the

architectural design and deployment guidelines of the NSS-HA solution family remain unchanged. In the

rest of the blog only the I/O performance information of NSS5-HA will be presented, meanwhile, in

order to show the performance difference between NSS5-HA and NSS4.5-HA, the corresponding

performance numbers of NSS4.5-HA are also presented.

For detailed information about NSS-HA solutions, please refer to our published white papers:

 Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability Configurations, release version NSS2-HA,

published at April 2011.

 Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability Configurations with Large Capacities, release

version NSS3-HA, published at February 2012.

 Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability (NSS-HA) Configurations with Dell PowerEdge

12th Generation Servers, release version NSS4-HA, published at July 2012.

 Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS-HA) Configuration with Dell PowerVault

MD3260/MD3060e Storage Arrays, release version NSS4.5-HA, published at October 2012.

Note: for any customized configuration/deployment, please contact your Dell representative for

specific guidelines.

NSS5-HA I/O performance summary