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Table 1 describes the hardware and software details of the solution:
Component | Specification |
Management server | 1× Dell EMC PowerEdge R650 |
Metadata servers | 2× Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 |
Storage servers | 2× Dell EMC PowerEdge R750 |
Processors | Management Server, MDS, and SS: 2× Intel Xeon Gold 6326 2.9G, 16 cores |
Memory | Management Server, MDS and SS: |
Local disks and RAID controller | Management Server, MDS and SS: |
InfiniBand HCA | MDS: 2× NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Single Port HDR100 with firmware version 20.28.4512 SS: 2× NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Single Port HDR with firmware version 20.28.4512 |
External storage controllers | MDS: 2× Dell HBA355e Adapter SS: 4× Dell HBA355e Adapter |
Object storage enclosures | 4× Dell EMC PowerVault ME5084 fully populated with a total of 336 drives |
Metadata storage enclosure | 1× Dell EMC PowerVault ME5024 full y populated with 24 SSDs |
RAID controllers | Duplex RAID controllers in the ME5084 and ME5024 enclosures |
Hard disk drives | On each ME5084 Enclosure: 84× 8 TB 3.5 in. 7.2 K RPM NL SAS3 ME5024 Enclosure: 24× 960 GB SAS3 SSDs Any drive included in the ME5 support matrix is valid |
Operating system | Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.3 |
Kernel version | 4.18.0-240.el8.x86_64 |
NVIDIA Mellanox OFED | 5.4-1.0.3.0 |
BeeGFS file system version | 7.2.4 |
Grafana | 8.1.5-1 |
InfluxDB | 1.8.9-1 |
Pacemaker | 2.0.4-6 |
Corosync | 3.0.3-4 |
Management switch | Dell Networking N3248TE-ON |
InfiniBand switch | NVIDIA QM8790 Quantum HDR 200 Gb/s Edge Switch—1U with firmware version 27.2008.2500 |