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Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability Configurations with Large Capacities

PDU 2

port 2 for active, port 3 for passive

Note: Instructions will be provided in section A.3.7 to configure iDRAC and APC PDU.

Logical volume names, volume group names, and XFS file system mount point

Logical

volume

LVMD1

Volume

group

names

VGMD1

XFS

mount

point

mount point: /mnt/xfs1

mount option:

noatime,allocsize=1g,nobarrier,inode64,logbsize=262144,wsync

Note: Please do not make any change to the XFS mount option without the guideline from DELL

representatives; it may incur unexpected performance and reliability issues.

Public network IP addresses and NFS mounting IP.

10GbE/IPoIB IP address (active)

10.10.10.201/16

10GbE/IPoIB IP address (passive)

10.10.10.202/16

NFS IP for clients to mount NFS

NFS IP: 10.10.10.200

NFS export option:

rw,sync,no_root_squash

Note: These IPs should be on the same subnet as the clients. Please do not make any change to the

NFS export option without the guideline from DELL representatives; it may incur unexpected

performance and reliability issues.

Scripts for cluster configuration and monitoring

Script name

usage

config_cluster.sh

Generating cluster configuration file