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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability (NSS-HA) Configurations with Dell PowerEdge 12th
Generation Servers
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NSS4-HA test bed
Figure 4.
Public network
Private network
Power
Storage connections
Public network
(IB or 10GbE)
Clients
Clients
NSS4-HA 288TB
configuration
R620 R620
Private network
PDU
PDU
1 MD3200 +
7 MD1200s
NSS4-HA hardware configuration details Table 6.
Server configuration
NFS server model
Two Dell PowerEdge R620
Processor
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2680 @ 2.70GHz
Memory
8 * 8GB 1600MHz RDIMMs
(The test bed used 64GB; the recommendation
for production clusters is to use 128GB).
Local disks and RAID controller
PERC H710P with five 300GB 15K SAS hard
drives
Optional InfiniBand HCA (slot 2)
Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR PCI-E card
Optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet card
(Onboard)
Intel Ethernet X540 DP 10Gb BT + I350 1Gb BT
DP network daughter card
External storage controller (slot 3
and slot 1)
Two 6Gbps SAS HBA
Systems Management
iDRAC Enterprise
Power Supply
Dual PSUs