BeeGFS
BeeGFS Turnkey Storage Appliances
High-Performance Parallel Clustered File System Is The Bee’s Knees
BeeGFS is the world’s leading parallel clustered file system. Easy to install, manage and use, BeeGFS transparently spreads data across multiple servers and their back-end storage. The result: continuous high performance with no bottlenecks, plus the ability to scale the performance and capacity of your cluster – from small clusters all the way up to enterprise-class deployments with thousands of nodes.
Benefits of BeeGFS with Aberdeen
With turnkey appliances and certified BeeGFS customer support, Aberdeen lets you take full advantage of everything BeeGFS can do.
Eliminate
Bottlenecks
By distributing file contents and metadata across multiple storage and metadata servers, BeeGFS makes it possible to avoid architectural bottlenecks.
Concurrent Access?
No Problem
BeeGFS lets you avoid the usual performance problems and was built to deliver optimal performance when the I/O load is high.
Simplify
Management
Complex open-source parallel file systems are history. BeeGFS lets you add more clients and servers whenever you want, using graphical tools and monitoring.
Achieve HPC
Performance
Simultaneously serving InfiniBand and Ethernet network connections, file system nodes can automatically switch to a redundant connection path in the event either one fails.
No Special System.
No Partition
No special environment or a dedicated file system partition is necessary to run BeeGFS. You can even run clients and servers on the same machine to boost performance for small clusters or networks.
Solution Kit Overview
Aberdeen and BeeGFS are working together to bring the right storage solution for your needs.
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The management node coordinates metadata, storage and client services. This 2U rackmount BeeGFS management node is a flexible, dual-socket server with a wide range of CPU, memory and storage options to fit your use case. Modest CPU choices will be adequate, but be sure to assign enough memory if you configure management to use RDMA. This 2U rackmount features dual 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Bronze Processors, as well as Quad-Port Ethernet in order to fit your needs.
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The metadata service stores information about the data: file and directory ownership, directory info and the location of file contents. For small disk random access workloads, you may wish to separate metadata services onto their own node or at least their own storage controller. This 2U rackmount BeeGFS metadata node is a flexible, dual-socket server with a wide range of CPU, memory and storage options to fit your use case.
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As a management node this server coordinates metadata, storage and client services. As a metadata node this server stores information about the data: file and directory ownership, directory info and the location of file contents. This 2U rackmount high-end enterprise server's key features include virtualization, hyper-converged storage, cloud computing, as well as Dual Socket P (LGA 3647) support, and a 2nd Gen. Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
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The metadata target is where the metadata service creates one metadata file per user-created file. BeeGFS metadata is very small, enabling low latency to improve the responsiveness of the file system, but you may need to add more capacity as your needs expand. This metadata target device is a 2U rackmount JBOD featuring 24 hot-swap drive bays and dual-expander backplane.
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The storage service stores user file contents and allows one or multiple storage nodes per BeeGFS file system instance. Each storage node adds more capacity and performance to the cluster. This 2U rackmount BeeGFS metadata node is a flexible, dual-socket server with a wide range of CPU, memory and storage options to fit your use case. For storage node use, configure with high CPU core count and make sure that your network choices are adequate for the number of drives you will be addressing.
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This 4U rackmount enterprise server includes features such as a corporate database, database processing and storage, an HPC architecture data center, as well as an iSCSI SAN. It also incorporates 36 Hot-swap 3.5" SAS3/SATA3 drive bays including 4 optional NVMe drives, Broadcom 3008 SAS3 AOC, and 1200W redundant power supplies.
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The BeeOND flash-based storage target unleashes the potential of flash drives by providing a fast, shared all-flash file system for storing temporary data, providing burst buffering or removing many unnecessary I/O accesses. This 2U rackmount all-flash server features up to 24 hot-swap NVMe drives for fast, accessible storage.
Reach Out to Us
Aberdeen offers an evaluation program to ISV's and OEM's looking to test a product for functionality and compatibility. We will build a test unit to your specifications and offer it for a period of 30 days.