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Table Of Contents
- Executive Summary (updated May 2011)
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Dell NFS Storage Solution Technical Overview
- 3. NFS Storage Solution with High Availability
- 4. Evaluation
- 5. Performance Benchmark Results (updated May 2011)
- 6. Comparison of the NSS Solution Offerings
- 7. Conclusion
- 8. References
- Appendix A: NSS-HA Recipe (updated May 2011)
- A.1. Pre-install preparation
- A.2. Server side hardware set-up
- A.3. Initial software configuration on each PowerEdge R710
- A.4. Performance tuning on the server
- A.5. Storage hardware set-up
- A.6. Storage Configuration
- A.7. NSS HA Cluster setup
- A.8. Quick test of HA set-up
- A.9. Useful commands and references
- A.10. Performance tuning on clients (updated May 2011)
- A.11. Example scripts and configuration files
- Appendix B: Medium to Large Configuration Upgrade
- Appendix C: Benchmarks and Test Tools
Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability Configurations
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The HPC compute cluster consisted of 64 PowerEdge R410 servers deployed using Platform Cluster
Manager – Dell Edition version 2.0.1(6).
Table 2, Table 3, Table 4, and Table 5 give details of the configuration. In this test bed, flow
control was disabled on the PowerConnect 8024 switch and two PowerConnect 6248 switches listed
in Table 5.
Table 2 – NSS-HA Hardware Configuration Details
SERVER CONFIGURATION
NFS Gateway Server Model Two PowerEdge R710
Processor Dual Intel Xeon E5630 @ 2.53GHz
Memory 12 * 4GB 1333MHz RDIMMs
Local disks and RAID controller PERC H700 with five 146GB 10K SAS hard drives
Optional InfiniBand HCA (slot 4) Mellanox ConnectX-2 QDR PCI-E card
Optional 10 Gigabit Ethernet card (slot 4) Intel X520 DA 10Gb Dual Port SFP+ Advanced
External storage controller (slot 3) 6Gbps SAS HBA
Systems Management iDRAC Enterprise
Power Supply Dual PSUs
STORAGE CONFIGURATION
Storage Enclosure One PowerVault MD3200, one or three MD1200
expansion arrays
High Performance Tier feature enabled on the
PowerVault MD3200
RAID controllers Duplex RAID controllers in the MD3200
Hard Disk Drives Twelve 2TB 7200 rpm NL SAS drivers per array
OTHER COMPONENTS
Private Gigabit Ethernet switch PowerConnect 5424
Power Distribution Unit Two APC switched Rack PDUs, model AP7921
Table 3 - NSS-HA Software Configuration Details
SOFTWARE
Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5
Kernel version 2.6.18-194.el5 x86_64
Cluster Suite Red Hat Cluster Suite from RHEL 5.5
File system Red Hat Scalable File System (XFS) 2.10.2-7
Systems Management Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 6.4.0
Storage Management Dell Modular Disk Storage Manager 1.2.0.12