Hooikanon storage details
Hooikanon Storage Details
The hooikanons consist of 3 Grid dCache storage units and 1 local (stoomboot) dCache storage unit.
Each server has 2 drives in RAID1. Attached to each server is a storage array with 60 drives/device. These are set up with 4 LUNs in RAID6.
Servers
IBM POWER SYSTEM LC922 (16-CORE 2.9GHZ POWER9) Mellanox MCX415A-CCAT ConnectX-4 EN 100GbE single-port QSFP28 PCIe3.0 x16 LP 2-Socket 2U 12 LFF/SFF 4 NVMe Direct Attach Fab Assembly 2 TB 3.5-inch 7200 RPM SAS 12Gb/s HDD 512e NONSED WrtCache Broadcom (LSI) 9305-16E SAS-3 HBA PCIe3.0 x8 LP 16 GB DDR4 memory 16-core 2.9 GHz POWER9 Processor
Storage Arrays
E5700A, 64GB Cntrlr, No HIC, 16Gb FC, 2-pt Controller: 2x 16Gb/10GbE optical onboard ports. HIC, E5700/EF570,12Gb SAS,4-ports 4U, 60 disk drives, 12TB, 7.2k, 12Gb, Non-FDE
Information on how to set up the ppc64le systems can be found here:
https://wiki.nikhef.nl/grid/Hooikanon_server_set_up_(ppc64le)
Storage system setup is here (ndpfgit access only):