BeeGFS Parallel Filesystem
BeeGFS is a joined Development of ThinkparQ GmbH and Fraunhover Institute for High Perfmormance Computing. Both are based in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
BeeGFS is a highly scalable filesystem. It can run on a single server but has the capability to scale out to hundreds of servern.
The four components of BeeGFS are:
- Management Server
- Metadaten Server
- Storage Server
- Client
The minimum requirement for a running BeeGFS Filesystem is one BeeGFS Management Server, one BeeGFS Metadata Server, one BeeGFS Storage Server and one BeeGFS Client.
BeeGFS is running on Linux only, however, BeeGFS is supporting the major distributions like RedHat, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu.
Because the main BeeGFS services are running in userspace, BeeGFS is hardware agnostic and can run on x86_64 (AMD, Intel), aarch64 (ARM) and ppc64le (IBM Power, OpenPower).
Here is a table to compare the BeeGFS Enterprise Version with the community version
| Community Edition | Enterprise Edition | |
| Community Mailing List | Yes | Yes |
| Free Update | Yes | Yes |
| Ready to use binary packages and source code | Yes | Yes |
| Direct access to support | No | Yes |
| Next Business Day Service Level Agreements for Support (Higher SLA on request) | No | Yes |
| High Availability | No | Yes |
| Resilience | No | Yes |
| Quota Enforcement | No | Yes |
| Access Control Lists (ACL) | No | Yes |
| Storage Pools | No | Yes |
| Remote Storage Targets | No | Yes |
| Early updates and hotfixes | No | Yes |
Sagittarius-IT has experience in configuration and deployment of BeeGFS since 2018. We work closely with ThinkparQ GmbH and can assist you in
- Design
- Installation (Implementation)
- configuiration (performance tuning)
of BeeGFS.
We have our own lab with Infiniband support for testing and solution support.
As a ThinkparQ VAR Partner we can give you a quote and provide you an offer for your BeeGFS installation. Do not hesitate to ask. Your direct contact for BeeGFS is Volker Pense (vpense(at)sagittarius-it.de)