White Papers

Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS5.5-HA) Configuration with Dell PowerVault

MD3460 and MD3060e Storage Arrays

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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 gains significant I/O performance improvement when compared to the previous NSS-HA

versions. The Dell NSS-HA solution is available with deployment services and full hardware and

software support from Dell. This document provides a summary on the configuration and I/O

performance 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. Dell NFS Storage Solution with High Availability: PowerVault MD3260/MD3060e

http://www.dellhpcsolutions.com/asset/147510210/96000/3710410/119266

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