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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell PowerEdge 13
th
Generation Servers
11
NSS6.0-HA test bed
Figure 2.
Public network
Private network
Power
Storage connections
Public network
(IB or 10GbE)
Clients
Clients
NSS6.0-HA 480TB
configuration
R630 R630
Private network
PDU
PDU
1 MD3460 +
1 MD3060e
NSS6.0-HA hardware configuration Table 3.
Server configuration
NFS server model
Two Dell PowerEdge R630s.
Processor
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 @ 2.60 GHz, 14 cores
per processor.
Memory
8 x 8GiB 2133 MHz RDIMMs.
(The test bed used 64GB; the recommendation
for production clusters is to use 128GB).
Local disks and RAID controller
PERC H730 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 57800 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet network
daughter card.
External storage controller (slot 3
and slot 1)
Two 12Gbps SAS HBAs.