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Dell PowerEdge M420 Podręcznik
Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
Contents
Executive Summary ....................................................................................................... 5
1.
Introduction ........................................................................................................... 6
1.1.
Dell Fluid Cache for DAS (direct-attached storage) ..................................................... 6
2.
Solution design and architecture.................................................................................. 6
2.1.
NFS storage solution (baseline) ............................................................................. 7
2.2.
Dell Fluid Cache for DAS based solution .................................................................. 9
2.3.
I/O clients test bed ......................................................................................... 10
2.4.
Solution tuning ............................................................................................... 12
2.4.1.
Storage .................................................................................................. 13
2.4.2.
NFS server .............................................................................................. 13
2.4.3.
Dell Fluid Cache for DAS ............................................................................. 14
2.5.
Tracking solution health and performance ............................................................. 14
2.5.1.
Server health and monitoring ....................................................................... 14
2.5.2.
2.5.3.
Dell Fluid Cache for DAS health and monitoring ................................................. 16
3.
Performance ........................................................................................................ 16
3.1.
Sequential writes and reads ............................................................................... 17
3.2.
Random writes and reads .................................................................................. 19
3.3.
Metadata tests ............................................................................................... 20
3.4.
Cold-cache tests ............................................................................................. 22
4.
Conclusion ........................................................................................................... 25
5.
References .......................................................................................................... 25
Appendix A: Step-by-step configuration of Dell Fluid Cache for NFS .......................................... 27
Hardware checklist and cabling .......................................................................... 27
NFS server set up ............................................................................................ 28
NFS server configuration and tuning ..................................................................... 29
Virtual disk configuration .................................................................................. 31
XFS and DFC configuration................................................................................. 33
Useful commands and references ........................................................................ 34
Performance tuning on clients ............................................................................ 34
Appendix B: Benchmarks and tests ................................................................................... 35
IOzone ......................................................................................................... 35
mdtest ......................................................................................................... 37
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