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• Single/dual port Mellanox ConnectX-5 EN 100Gb/s Ethernet
4.1.2 Storage configuration recommendations
The recommendation is to have two types of server storage: SSD-SATA for the operating system and NVME SSD
for data storage.
Operating system:
• 2x 480GbE SSD-SATA units as a RAID 1 via hardware controller
• Partitioned to use ext4 file system
Data storage:
• 7x 1TB NVME SSD units as a logical RAID 6 managed with MDADM
• Partitioned to use xfs file system
4.1.3 Memory configuration recommendations
The DIMMs should be installed in a fully symmetric configuration, as recommended by Dell for maximum perfor-
mance. The recommended configuration has 8 DIMMs per processor, as shown below.
Fig. 4.1: DIMM memory configuration
4.1.4 BIOS configuration
Various BIOS settings can impact the performance of the system. The recommended settings are shown in
Table 4.1: BIOS settings
Version: latest (2021-11-25)
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