NetApp has partnered with ThinkParQ (the company behind BeeGFS) to deliver high performing, highly scalable, yet cost effective storage solutions. The Ansible roles in this collection automate deploying BeeGFS on E-Series as described in NetApp's deployment guides and technical reports. This enables delivery of end-to-end storage solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

The roles in this collection make it easy to get started automating BeeGFS and E-Series, providing copy-and-update example inventory files and playbooks. Roles are designed and developed for specific BeeGFS major releases and either a high availability (HA) or non-HA mode of operation. If support is added for a new version of BeeGFS it will be implemented as a new role to avoid backwards compatibility issues.

Each role is used independently to deploy the desired version of BeeGFS in the desired mode of operation. The following roles are currently available:

• BeeGFS 7.1 with High-Availability (HA): End-to-end deployment of the NetApp E-Series BeeGFS 7.1 HA solution including provisioning and mapping E-Series storage, creating a Linux HA cluster using Pacemaker and Corosync, deploying BeeGFS into the cluster, and configuring clients.
• BeeGFS 7.1: Description: Deployment of BeeGFS 7.1 servers and clients backed by NetApp E-Series storage. Often used to create high performance scratch space for use cases where HA is less of a concern.

If you have any questions, feature requests, or would like to report an issue please submit them at https://github.com/netappeseries/beegfs/issues.

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• Christopher Seirer (@CSeirer)
• Janey Le (@janeyle)
• Joe McCormick (@iamjoemccormick)
• Nathan Swartz (@ndswartz)