<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Chris,<br><br></div>I've used BeeGFS on AWS before. I was mostly testing the installation procedure and the performance. It's not really persistent storage since I would bring up a cluster, run some tests, and then tear down the cluster. I think the longest I had a cluster running was about 1-2 weeks (I was running tests the whole time).<br><br></div>The performance was very good and it was easy to install. I used the rpm's to install on CentOS 7 (storage and clients). I used xfs underneath since I didn't want to try putting ZFS on the servers at the time (I was interested in performance testing so I wanted to keep it simple).<br><br></div>Hope this helps.<br><br></div>Jeff<br><br></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Christopher Samuel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:samuel@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">samuel@unimelb.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
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A few folks were chatting about HPC distributed filesystems over on the<br>
Australian HPC sysadmin Slack and the question arose about whether<br>
anyone is using BeeGFS for non-scratch (persistent) storage.<br>
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So, is anyone doing that?<br>
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Also, is anyone doing that with CephFS too?<br>
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All the best,<br>
Chris<br>
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Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator<br>
Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:samuel@unimelb.edu.au">samuel@unimelb.edu.au</a> Phone: <a href="tel:%2B61%20%280%293%20903%2055545" value="+61390355545">+61 (0)3 903 55545</a><br>
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