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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS5.5-HA) Configuration with Dell PowerVault
MD3460 and MD3060e Storage Arrays
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NSS5.5-HA test bed
Figure 2.
Public network
Private network
Power
Storage connections
Public network
(IB or 10GbE)
Clients
Clients
NSS5.5-HA 360TB
configuration
R620 R620
Private network
PDU
PDU
1 MD3460 +
1 MD3060e
NSS5.5-HA hardware configuration Table 3.
Server configuration
NFS server model
Two Dell PowerEdge R620s.
Processor
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2695 v2 @ 2.40 GHz, 12 cores
per processor.
Memory
8 x 8GiB 1866 MHz 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. Two drives are configured in RAID-1 for
the OS, two drives are configured in RAID-0 for
swap space, and the fifth drive is a hot spare
for RAID-1 disk group.
Optional InfiniBand HCA (slot 2)
Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR PCI-E card.
1/10 Gigabit Ethernet card
(Network Daughter card slot)
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM57800
1/10 Gigabit Ethernet network daughter card.
External storage controller (slot 3
and slot 1)
Two 12Gbps SAS HBAs.