BeeGFS® supports a wide range of Linux distributions such
as RHEL/Fedora, SLES/OpenSuse or Debian/Ubuntu as well as a
wide range of Linux kernels from 2.6.16 up to the latest
vanilla.
The storage servers run on top of an existing local
filesystem using the normal POSIX interface and clients and
servers can be added to an existing system without
downtime.
BeeGFS® supports multiple networks and dynamic failover
in case one of the network connections is down.
Multiple BeeGFS® services can run on the same physical
machine, i.e. any combination of client and servers. Thus,
BeeGFS® can turn a compute rack, in which nodes are
equipped with internal drives, into a powerful combined
data processing and HPC shared storage unit, eliminating
the need for external storage resources and providing a very
cost-efficient solution with simplified management.