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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability (NSS-HA) Configurations with Dell PowerEdge 12th
Generation Servers
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Table 5. Server components in NSS-HA .......................................................................... 15
Table 6. NSS4-HA hardware configuration details ............................................................. 17
Table 7. NSS4-HA software configuration details .............................................................. 18
Table 8. NSS4-HA firmware and driver configuration details................................................ 18
Table 9. NSS4-HA client configuration details ................................................................. 19
Table 10. NSS-HA mechanisms to handle failures ............................................................... 20
Figures
Figure 1. The infrastructure of the NSS-HA solution ............................................................. 7
Figure 2. A failure scenario in NSS-HA ............................................................................. 8
Figure 3. PCI-E slots usage in the Dell PowerEdge R620: option 1 vs. option 2 ........................... 13
Figure 4. NSS4-HA test bed ......................................................................................... 17
Figure 5. IPoIB large sequential write performance: NSS4-HA vs. NSS3-HA ............................... 23
Figure 6. IPoIB large sequential read performance: NSS4-HA vs. NSS3-HA ................................ 24
Figure 7. IPoIB random write performance: NSS4-HA vs. NSS3-HA .......................................... 25
Figure 8. IPoIB random read performance: NSS4-HA vs. NSS3-HA ........................................... 25
Figure 9. IPoIB file create performance: NSS4-HA vs. NSS3-HA .............................................. 26
Figure 10. IPoIB file stat performance: NSS4-HA vs. NSS3-HA ................................................. 26
Figure 11. IPoIB file remove performance: NSS4-HA vs. NSS3-HA ............................................ 27