White Papers

5 Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution – High Availability (NSS7.0-HA) Configuration

1 Introduction

This white paper provides information on the latest Dell NFS Storage Solution - High Availability

configurations with Dell PowerEdge 13th generation servers. The solution uses Dell PowerEdge servers

and PowerVault storage arrays along with Red Hat High Availability software stack to provide an easy to

manage, reliable, and cost effective storage solution for HPC clusters. It leverages the Dell PowerEdge 13

generation servers (R730s) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 operating system (RHEL 7.2 OS) to deliver

more powerful storage solutions than the earlier NSS-HA solutions. This version of the solution is NSS7.0-

HA.

The design principle for this release remains the same as previous Dell NSS-HA solutions. The major

updates between the current and the previous version of NSS-HA solution ( NSS6.0-HA) are:

 The NFS servers are changed from Dell PowerEdge R630s to R730s

 The OS is updated from RHEL 7.0 to RHEL 7.2

 Intel Omni-Path Network Fabric is supported in NSS7.0-HA.

For more information about the NSS-HA solution family, read this technical white paper with the previous

NSS-HA white papers and blogs

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The sections hereafter describe the technical details, evaluation method, and the expected performance

of the solution.