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ATTO TECHNOLOGY 10 GBE ADAPTER
CONFIGURATION GUIDE
Using the ATTO FastFrame™ and ThunderLink™
Ethernet Adapters with EMC
®
ABSTRACT
This white paper reviews the integration requirements for the ATTO FastFrame and
ThunderLink 10 GbE network adapters when designing media and entertainment
workflows for EMC Isilon scale-out NAS.
September 2015
EMC WHITE PAPER
®
Isilon
OneFS
®
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- Page 1 Ethernet Adapters with EMC Isilon OneFS ABSTRACT This white paper reviews the integration requirements for the ATTO FastFrame and ThunderLink 10 GbE network adapters when designing media and entertainment workflows for EMC Isilon scale-out NAS. September 2015 EMC WHITE PAPER...
- Page 2 To learn more about how EMC products, services, and solutions can help solve your business and IT challenges, contact your local representative or authorized reseller, visit www.emc.com, or explore and compare products in the EMC Store Copyright © 2015 EMC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. EMC believes the information in this publication is accurate as of its publication date.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................4 Solution overview ..................... 4 GUIDELINES ..................... 4 CLIENT CONFIGURATION ................. 4 Mac OS X Performance Tuning ................5 Windows 8/2012 Performance Tuning ..............6 Linux Client Performance Tuning ................. 6 NETWORK DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS ............7 PERFORMANCE .................. -
Page 4: Executive Summary
Client Configuration For best performance, install the ATTO Technology FastFrame NS 10 GbE network adapter in a PCIe 2.0 slot that is electrically wired for an 8x lane width or greater. Please consult your server or workstation documentation for additional information regarding the host computer PCI slot configuration. -
Page 5: Mac Os X Performance Tuning
Mac OS X Performance Tuning Ensure that your clients are running current OS patch levels and the latest version of the ATTO Technology 10 GbE drivers. For optimal 10 GbE performance, the following entries are added to the file /etc/sysctl.conf on clients running Linux or Mac OS 10.9 and greater. -
Page 6: Windows 8/2012 Performance Tuning
202614. Linux Client Performance Tuning The ATTO FastFrame NIC should be natively supported by the kernel of most modern Linux distributions. For recommended NFS mount parameters when using Linux with Isilon, please see EMC Isilon KB article 90041, OneFS: Best practices for NFS client... -
Page 7: Network Design Considerations
Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of 1500 bytes per packet. The gigabit Ethernet network is a layer 3 network and each host on the network is configured with a default gateway address. Clients on this network with ATTO Technology FastFrame NS 10 gigabit Ethernet network adapters installed are configured for a dual-homed network configuration. -
Page 8: Conclusion
In Figure 4, we see the read and write performance results of an Apple Mac Pro equipped with a ThunderLink NS2102 and a Lenovo D30 equipped with a FastFrame NS12. Both client computers are equipped with 32 GB of RAM and the performance tuning options detailed in this document.
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