Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability NSS6.0-HA Configuration with Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation Servers Owner's Manual and User Guide
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This technical white paper describes the configuration of Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution with High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) using Dell PowerEdge 13th Generation servers. It covers NSS-HA architecture including NFS storage nodes, metadata servers, and failover mechanisms. The document details hardware and software configuration steps, network topology requirements, storage provisioning, and HA setup procedures, plus performance tuning and troubleshooting guidance. It targets HPC system administrators, storage engineers, and IT architects deploying high-availability NFS storage in HPC clusters.
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution – High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers A Dell Technical White Paper
Xin Chen
Dell HPC Engineering
November 2014| Version 1.0
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution – High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers A Dell Technical White Paper Xin Chen Dell HPC Engineering November 2014| Versi...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers This document is for informational purposes only and may contain typographical ...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers Contents Executive summary .......................................................
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers Figure 4. IPo IB random write and read performance ...............................
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers Executive summary This white paper describes the Dell NFS Storage Solution - Hi...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers 1. Introduction This white paper provides information on the latest Dell NFS St...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers failover the storage service to the healthy server with the assistance of the t...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers 2.2. NSS-HA offerings from Dell Table 1 lists the available Dell NSS-HA solutio...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers 3. Dell Power Vault MD3460 and MD3060e storage arrays As compared to previous v...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers 4. Evaluation The architecture proposed in this white paper was evaluated in th...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers NSS6.0-HA test bed Figure 2. Public network (IB or 10Gb E) Clients Clients Priv...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers Systems Management i DRAC8 Enterprise. Power Supply Dual Power Supply Units. St...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers NSS6.0-HA client cluster configuration Table 5. Client / HPC Compute Cluster Cl...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers Note: The analysis below assumes that the HA cluster service is running on the ...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers Fence device failure Single SAS link failure Multiple SAS link failures T...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers Impact to clients Clients mount the NFS file system exported by the server usin...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers Leveraging the latest Power Edge R630 server and RHEL 7.0, significant sequenti...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers IPo IB random write and read performance Figure 4. NFS IB random I/O performanc...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers 7. References 1. Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability Configurations...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers Appendix A: Benchmarks and test tools The IOzone benchmark tool was used to mea...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers IOzone Argument Description -t Number of threads. +m Location of clients to run...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers A.2. Checkstream The checkstream utility is available at http://sourceforge.net...
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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution - High Availability (NSS6.0-HA) Configuration with Dell Power Edge 13th Generation Servers # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/xfs/file bs=1M count=90000 To read data from the stor...
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Frequently Asked Questions
What PowerEdge servers are intended for this NFS storage solution?
The solution is designed for use with Dell PowerEdge 13 Generation Servers.
When might data corruption occur during an NSS-HA write operation?
Data corruption is likely if the file system uses NFS async operations and an HA service failover occurs during a write.
What tools can be used to test the I/O performance of the storage solution?
Benchmarking can be performed using IOzone, Checkstream, or the dd Linux utility for testing read/write speeds.