Concept Guide

Dell EMC BeeGFS Storage Solution Reference Architecture
7 Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC BeeGFS High Performance Storage | ID 460
3 Dell EMC BeeGFS Storage Solution Reference Architecture
Figure 2 shows the reference architecture of the solution. The management server is only connected using
Ethernet to the metadata and storage servers. Each metadata and storage server have two InfiniBand links
and are connected to the internal management network via Ethernet. The clients have one InfiniBand link and
are connected to the internal management network using Ethernet. This is the “Medium” configuration which
uses five dedicated storage servers. Other configurations with varying number of storage servers are also
available as described in Section 5 of this document.
Dell EMC Ready Solutions for HPC BeeGFS Storage - Reference Architecture
3.1 Management Server
A PowerEdge R640 is used as the management server. In addition to hosting the management service
(beegfs-mgmtd.service), it also hosts the monitoring service (beegfs-mon.service) which collects statistics
from the system and provides them to the user, using the time series database InfluxDB
. For visualization of
data, beegfs-mon provides predefined Grafana panes that can be used out of the box. The management
server has 6x 300 GB HDDs configured in RAID 10 for the Operating System and InfluxDB.