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3.1.4 Common Internet File System (CIFS) gateway
Table 3 PowerEdge R430 configuration as CIFS gateway
Component
Information
PowerEdge R430
Processors
2x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 processors
Memory
6 x 8GB RDIMM, 2400 MT/s, Dual Rank
Disk
2 x 500GB 7.2K RPM NLSAS 6Gbps 2.5in Hot-plug Hard Drive,3.5inHYB
CARR,13G
RAID controller
Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H730
Intel Omni-Path
Intel Omni-Path Host Fabric Adapter 100 Series 1 Port PCIe x16, Low Profile
1GbE
I SFP+ to RJ45 transceiver in LOM1 of Intel X710 Dual Port 10Gb Direct Attach,
SFP+
10GbE
Intel X710 Dual Port 10Gb Direct Attach, SFP+
3.2 Storage configuration
Both storages, NSS7.0-HA and Dell EMC HPC Lustre Storage are managed and operated through Dell
Networking S3048-ON and Dell Networking H1048-OPF switch as described in 3.3.
3.2.1 NSS7.0-HA
A pair of Dell PowerEdge R730 servers were configured as an active-passive HA pair and function as a NFS
server for the HPC compute cluster. Both NFS servers were connected to a shared Dell PowerVault MD3460
storage enclosure extended with one Dell PowerVault MD3060e storage enclosure (a 480 TB solution with
the two PowerVault MD storage arrays) at the back-end. The user data is stored on an XFS file system
created on this storage. The XFS file system was exported to the clients by using NFS. For the HA
functionality of the NFS servers, a private 1 Gigabit Ethernet network was configured to monitor server health
and heartbeat, and to provide a route for the fencing operations by using the Dell Networking 3048-ON
switch.
3.2.2 Dell EMC HPC Lustre Storage
This solution continues to use the Dell PowerEdge R630 server as the Intel Management Server, while the
Object Storage Servers and Metadata Servers in the configuration will be based on the Dell PowerEdge
R730. The PowerEdge R730 is a 2U dual socket server with 7 PCIe expansion slots available enabling future
expansion. Also new to this solution is support of the new Intel Omni-Path Host Fabric Interface (HFI)
adapter. The storage backend of the solution will utilize the PowerVault MD3460 fully populated with your
choice of 4TB, 6TB or 8TB SAS hard disk drives. For the Lustre software, the solution supports version 3.0 of
the Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre software. The solution uses two Dell PowerEdge R730 servers as
Object Storage Servers (OSS) in an active-active configuration. 120 drive system configuration (60 drives per
PowerVault MD3460) is used. The number of OSTs is 12, and each OST consists of 10x 4TB drives. Total
raw storage size is 480TB.