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Baselight ONE, Baselight TWO, and Baselight X run in a customized version of CentOS 8. Thus, the NFS protocol is the preferred method for connecting PowerScale storage to Baselight. NFS has many tuning parameters that often need to be tweaked to individual environments and workflows. However, NFS over RDMA and nconnect are two NFS connectivity strategies that greatly improve performance. Intelligent use of these options makes PowerScale an excellent choice for Baselight.
OneFS can be configured to prefetch sequentially named files. The Filename-based Prefetch feature was designed to support image-sequence-based workflows, which are common in Baselight. Using Filename-based Prefetch is another key to achieving the performance demanded by Baselight.
The following sections describe NFS over RDMA and nconnect. In our testing, RDMA yielded the best results. However, not every network can support RDMA traffic. We recommend using RDMA when the network and NIC support it; otherwise, use nconnect with TCP.