Lustre SFF
Introduction
Lustre SFF (Small Form Factor), is a compact deployment of ZFS-backed (Zettabyte File System) Lustre intended as an alternative to NFS for a comparable capacity and scalability.
http://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem-2016/documents/tutorials/Stearman-LLNL-ZFS.pdf
Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre White Paper
The Intel January 2014 white paper "Architecting a high performance storage system" serves as a good starting point for optimizing Lustre SFF.