Administrator Guide

BeeGFS High Capacity Storage solution architecture
13 Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC BeeGFS High Capacity Storage | ID 424
Component
Specification
Local disks and RAID
controller
Management server: PERC H740P Integrated RAID, 8GB NV cache,
6x 300GB 15K SAS hard drives (HDDs) configured in RAID10
MDS and SS servers: PERC H330+ Integrated RAID, 2x 300GB 15K
SAS HDDs configured in RAID1 for OS
InfiniBand HCA
Mellanox ConnectX-6 HDR100 InfiniBand adapter
External storage controllers
On each MDS: 2 x Dell 12 Gb/s SAS HBAs
On each SS: 4 x Dell 12 Gb/s SAS HBAs
Object storage enclosures
4 x Dell EMC PowerVault ME4084 fully populated with a total of 336
drives
Metadata storage enclosure
1 x Dell EMC PowerVault ME4024 with 24 SSDs
RAID controllers
Duplex RAID controllers in the ME4084 and ME4024 enclosures
HDDs
On each ME4084 Enclosure: 84 x 8 TB 3.5 in. 7.2 K RPM NL SAS3
ME4024 Enclosure: 24 x 960 GB SAS3 SSDs
Operating system
CentOS Linux release 8.1.1911 (Core)
Kernel version
4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64
Mellanox OFED version
4.7-3.2.9.0
BeeGFS file system version
7.2 (beta2)