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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability (NSS-HA) Configurations with Dell PowerEdge 12th
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IPoIB file remove performance: NSS4-HA vs. NSS3-HA
Figure 11.
6. Conclusion
This solution guide provides details the latest NSS-HA Solution for HPC from Dell. With this release, the
Dell NSS-HA solution gains huge performance improvement with Dell PowerEdge 12
th
generation servers
than the previous releases. The Dell NSS-HA solution is available with deployment services and full
hardware and software support from Dell. This document provides complete technical details on
architecture, design, configuration, and performance analysis of such solutions.
7. References
1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Cluster Administration -- Configuring and Managing the High Availability
Add-On.
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-
US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/pdf/Cluster_Administration/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-6-
Cluster_Administration-en-US.pdf
2. Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability Configurations, Version 1.1
http://i.dell.com/sites/content/business/solutions/whitepapers/en/Documents/dell-hpc-nssha-
sg.pdf
3. Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution – High availability with large capacities, Version 2.1
http://i.dell.com/sites/content/business/solutions/engineering-docs/en/Documents/hpc-nfs-
storage-solution.pdf
4. Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 Product Family
http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/xeon/e5/pdfs/Intel_Xeon_E5_Factsheet.pdf
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