White Papers

11 Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution – High Availability (NSS7.0-HA) Configuration
Public network
Private network
Power
Storage connections
Public network (OPA)
Clients
Clients
NSS7.0-HA 480TB
configuration
R730 R730
Private network
PDU
PDU
1 MD3460 +
1 MD3060e
Figure 2 NSS7.0-HA test bed
NSS7.0-HA hardware configuration
Server configuration
NFS server model
Two Dell PowerEdge R730s
Processor
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 @ 2.0 GHz, 14 cores
per processor
(The test bed used E5-2660 v3 @ 2.60 GHz.)
Memory
8 × 16 GiB 2400 MT/s RDIMMs.
(The test bed used 16 × 8GiB 2133 MT/s
RDIMMS.)
Local disks and RAID controller
PERC H730 with five 300GB 15K SAS hard
drives. Two drives are configured in RAID1 for
the OS, two drives are configured in RAID0 for
swap space, and the fifth drive is a hot-spare
for RAID1 disk group.
Optional OPA HCA (slot 4)
Intel Omni-Path Host Fabric Interface (HFI)
1 GbE Ethernet Card (daughter
card slot)
Broadcom 5720 QP 1 Gigabit Ethernet network
daughter card