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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability (NSS-HA) Configurations with Dell PowerEdge 12th
Generation Servers
15
Server components in NSS-HA
Table 5.
Server
components
NSS3-HA release
(February 2012)
“Large capacity configuration”
NSS4-HA release
(July 2012)
“PowerEdge 12
th
generation server
based solution”
NFS server
Dell PowerEdge R710
Dell PowerEdge R620
Hardware components
Memory per NFS
server
96 GB, 12 x 8 GB 1333MHz RDIMMs
128 GB, 16 x 8GB 1600MHz RDIMMs
SAS cards per
server
1 SAS 6Gbps HBA
2 SAS 6Gbps HBAs
RAID Disk
controller
PERC H700 with five 146GB 10K
SAS hard drives:
Two disks in RAID1 with 1 hot
spare for OS; two disks in RAID0
for swap space.
PERC H710P with five 300GB 15K SAS
hard drives:
Two disks in RAID1 with 1 hot spare
for OS; two disks in RAID0 for swap
space.
InfiniBand HCA
Mellanox ConnectX-2 QDR PCI-E
card
Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR PCI-E card
10 Gigabit
Ethernet card
Intel X520 DA 10Gb Dual Port SFP+
Advanced
Intel Ethernet X540 DP 10Gb BT +
I350 1Gb BT DP, one custom rack
network daughter card
Systems
Management
device
iDRAC6 Enterprise
iDRAC7 Enterprise
Software components
Operating
System
RHEL 5.5 x86_64
RHEL 6.1 x86_64
Kernel version
2.6.18-194.el5
2.6.32-131.0.15.el6
File system (XFS)
version
2.10.2-7
3.1.1-4
InfiniBand driver
Mellanox OFED 1.5.1
Mellanox OFED 1.5.3-3.0.0
HA cluster suite
Red Hat Cluster Suite from RHEL
5.5
Red Hat Cluster Suite from RHEL 6.1
Systems
Management
Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator 6.5.0
Dell OpenManage Server
Administrator 7.0.0
Note: Details of the complete test bed are provided in the section called “Test bed.”