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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability (NSS-HA) Configurations with Dell PowerEdge 12th
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NSS4-HA software configuration details Table 7.
Software
Operating system
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.1 x86_64
Kernel version
2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64
Cluster Suite
Red Hat Cluster Suite from RHEL 6.1
File system
Red Hat Scalable File System (XFS) 3.1.1-4
Systems management
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 7.0.0
Storage management
Dell Modular Disk Storage Manager 3.0.0.18
NSS4-HA firmware and driver configuration details Table 8.
Firmware and Drivers
Dell PowerEdge R620 BIOS
1.1.2
Dell PowerEdge R620 iDRAC
1.06.06
InfiniBand firmware
2.10.700
InfiniBand driver
Mellanox OFED 1.5.3-3.0.0
Storage configuration
Storage Enclosure
One Dell PowerVault MD3200 array.
Seven Dell MD1200 expansion arrays for the
288TB solution.
High Performance Tier feature enabled on the
Dell PowerVault MD3200
RAID controllers
Duplex RAID controllers in the Dell MD3200
Hard Disk Drives
Twelve 3TB 7200 rpm NL SAS drivers per array
Other components
Private Gigabit Ethernet switch
Dell PowerConnect 5424
Power Distribution Unit
Two APC switched Rack PDUs, model AP7921