Administrator Guide

Solution Architecture
12 Dell EMC Ready Solution for HPC PixStor Storage | Document ID
Gateways/Ngenea nodes. Similarly, slots 2 & 7 (x8) are only used for the Storage Servers for Large
configurations (4 ME4084s) or for High Demand Metadata servers that require 4 ME4024s.
Figure 2 R740 Slot Allocation
To give an idea how the solution connects its SAS and high-speed links to avoid single points of failure and
allow maximum performance to the different components, Figure 3 shows such connections for a large
configuration with the optional High Demand Metadata module included. Since the DellEMC Ready Solution
for HPC PixStor Storage is sold with deployment services include, details explanation of the cabling is out of
scope for this work. Similarly, the cabling of the different components to the management switch is also out of
scope for this document.