Conclusion; References - Dell PowerEdge EL Manual

Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS

4. Conclusion

This Dell technical white paper describes a method to improve NFS performance using Dell Fluid
Cache for DAS in an HPC environment. It presents measured cluster-level results of several different
I/O patterns to quantify the performance of a tuned NFS solution and measure the performance boost
provided by DFC.
The test results in this paper indicate that DFC is a great fit for environments where:
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There is heavy read I/O workload, either sequential or random reads.
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Heavy random write I/O workload with a large number of clients writing to the storage.
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Lots of clients are performing I/O at the same time.
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Mixed I/O workload where it is critical to sustain a balance between throughput and IOPs and
an SSD based solution is the best fit.

5. References

1. Dell High-performance Computing NFS Storage Solutions (NSS)
http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/d/hpcc/storage-dell-nss
2. Solid State Drive vs. Hard Disk Drive Price and Performance Study
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/ssd_vs_hdd_price_and_performance_s
tudy.pdf
3. Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
Dell Fluid Cache for DAS User's Guide at
http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/poweredge-r720/pd
4. NFS tuning and the optimized Dell NFS Storage Solutions (NSS)
Dell™ HPC NFS Storage Solution
Dell HPC NFS Storage Solution High Availability (NSS-HA) Configurations with Dell PowerEdge 12th
Generation Servers
http://i.dell.com/sites/content/business/solutions/engineering-docs/en/Documents/hpc-nfs-
storage-solution.pdf
Optimizing DELL™ PowerVault™ MD1200 Storage Arrays for High Performance Computing (HPC)
Deployments
5. Dell PowerEdge M420 blade
http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/poweredge-m420/pd?~ck=anav
6. XFS bugzilla reference
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813137
7. Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
www.dell.com/support
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