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operations, NFSv3 versus NFsv4 performance depended on the number of concurrent clients in the test.
For single client runs NFSv3 was better by 9%. With 4 and 16 clients NFSv4 was substantially better than
NFSv3 by up to 35%. For all other cases, NFSv4 was marginally better. The 144TB configuration showed
a similar trend.
Due to time constraints, 10GbE performance with NFSv4 was not measured in time for this publication.
This portion of the study will be released as a blog on www.hpcatdell.com at a later date.
Conclusion 7.
This solution guide provides details on Dell‟s latest NFS Storage Solution for HPC. With this release, the
Dell NSS solutions grow to support XFS-based file systems at capacities larger than 100TB. The Dell NFS
Storage Solution is available with deployment services and full hardware and software support from
Dell. This document provides complete technical details on architecture, design, performance analysis
and configuration of such solutions.