Table 1. Nfs Server And Storage Hardware Configuration; Figure 2. Nfs Server - Dell PowerEdge EL Manual

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Table 1.
NFS SERVER
PROCESSORS
MEMORY
INTERNAL DISKS
INTERNAL RAID CONTROLLER
EXTERNAL RAID CONTROLLER
INTERCONNECT TO CLIENTS
Storage Enclosure
Hard Disks
Figure 2. NFS server
NFS server and storage hardware configuration
Server configuration
PowerEdge R720
Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 @ 2.70 GHz
128 GB. 16 * 8 GB 1600MT/s RDIMMs
5 * 300 GB 15 K SAS disks
Two drives configured in RAID-0 for the operating system
with one additional drive as a hot spare
Two drives configured in RAID-1 for swap space
PERC H710P mini (internal)
PERC H810 adapter (slot 7) connected to the storage
enclosures
Mellanox ConnectX-3 FDR card (slot 5)
Storage configuration
Four PowerVault MD1200 arrays, daisy chained
12 * 3 TB 7200 rpm NL SAS drives per storage enclosure
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