Concept Guide

Scalability of Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC BeeGFS Storage
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5 Scalability of Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC BeeGFS
Storage
The Dell EMC solution uses dedicated storage servers and a dual-purpose metadata and storage server to
provide a high-performance, scalable storage solution
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. It is possible to scale the system by adding additional
storage/metadata servers to an existing system. In the following sub sections, we present the performance
data when we increase the number of storage servers in the system.
5.1 Base Configurations
Figure 14 shows the two base configurations that have been tested and validated extensively at the Dell EMC
HPC and AI Innovation Lab.
Base Configurations
*MDS
SS
Small
Medium
Base Configurations
The small configuration consists of three R740xd servers. It has a total of 15 storage targets. The medium
configuration has 6xR740xd servers and has a total of 33 storage targets. The user can start with a "Small"
configuration or with the "Medium" configuration and can add storage or metadata servers as needed to
increase storage space and overall performance, or number of files and metadata performance, respectively.
Table 6 shows the performance data for the base configurations.