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The beegfs-mgmtd service in the BeeGFS high-capacity solution is not running on the management server. It is managed by Pacemaker to run on either metaA or metaB. Storage for the management daemon is bound by default to the first metadata partition of metaA (metaA-numa0-1), and physically resides on the ME5024. In the event of a failure, the management data will follow this partition along with the beegfs-mgmtd service to the functional node. The beegfs-mgmtd store is initialized on the directory mgmtd on the metadata target 1 as follows:
/opt/beegfs/sbin/beegfs-setup-mgmtd -p /beegfs/metaA-numa0-1/mgmtd -S beegfs-mgmt
The two PowerEdge R750 servers that are used as the MDS are directly attached to the PowerVault ME5024 storage array housing the BeeGFS MDTs and MGMTD. Figure 3shows the SAS ports on ME5024 array.