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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS-HA) Configuration with Dell PowerVault

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6. Conclusion

This solution guide provides details of the latest Dell HPC NSS-HA Solution. With this release, the Dell

NSS-HA solution reduces the solution footprint by 2.5 times as compared to the previous releases and

improves its availability and reliability. 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 the configuration and performance analysis of the solution.

7. References

1. 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

2. 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

3. Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability (NSS-HA) Configurations with Dell PowerEdge 12th

Generation Servers, Version 1.0

http://www.dellhpcsolutions.com/assets/pdfs/NSS_HA_12G_final_July16.pdf

4. 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

5. Dell NFS Storage Solution with High Availability – XL configuration.

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/high-performance-computing/w/wiki/2299.aspx

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