Dell PowerVault MD1200 - Manual (Page 7)

Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
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sections provide details on each of these components as well as information on tuning and monitoring
the solution.
2.1. NFS storage solution (baseline)
The baseline in this study is an NFS configuration. One PowerEdge R720 is used as the NFS server.
PowerVault™ MD1200 storage arrays are direct-attached to the PowerEdge R720 and provide the
storage. The attached storage is formatted as a Red Hat Scalable File System (XFS). This file system is
exported via NFS to the HPC compute cluster.
The NFS server and storage is shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2. Table 1 and Table 2 list the details of the
configuration. Readers familiar with Dell’s NSS line of solutions
1 will recognize this baseline
configuration.
NFS storage solution Figure 1.