Improving NFS Performance on HPC Clusters with Dell Fluid Cache for DAS
Contents
Executive Summary ....................................................................................................... 5
1.
Introduction ........................................................................................................... 6
1.1.
2.
2.1.
2.2.
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.
2.5.
2.5.1.
2.5.2.
2.5.3.
3.
Performance ........................................................................................................ 16
3.1.
3.2.
3.3.
Metadata tests ............................................................................................... 20
3.4.
Cold-cache tests ............................................................................................. 22
4.
Conclusion ........................................................................................................... 25
5.
References .......................................................................................................... 25
NFS server set up ............................................................................................ 28
IOzone ......................................................................................................... 35
mdtest ......................................................................................................... 37
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