White Papers
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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A.9.
Useful commands and references ..................................................................... 47
A.10. Performance tuning on clients (updated May 2011) ............................................... 48
A.11. Example scripts and configuration files .............................................................. 49
Appendix B: Medium to Large Configuration Upgrade ......................................................... 50
Implementing Option 1- Extending the Medium configuration ............................................ 50
Implementing Option 2 - Creating the Large configuration. ............................................... 51
Appendix C: Benchmarks and Test Tools ......................................................................... 53
C.1. IOzone ...................................................................................................... 53
C.2. mdtest ...................................................................................................... 55
C.3. Checkstream .............................................................................................. 56
C.4. dd ........................................................................................................... 57