Hardware and software configuration for the high capacity building block is standard except that the EF600 controllers should be replaced with a EF300 controllers with an option to attach between 1 and 7 IOM expansion trays with 60 drives each for each storage array, totaling 2 to 14 expansions trays per building block.

Customers deploying a high capacity building block design are likely to use only the base building block style configuration consisting of BeeGFS management, metadata, and storage services for each node. For cost efficiency, high capacity storage nodes should provision metadata volumes on the NVMe drives in the EF300 controller enclosure and should provision storage volumes to the NL-SAS drives in the expansion trays.

These sizing guidelines assume high capacity building blocks are configured with one 2+2 NVMe SSD volume group for metadata in the base EF300 enclosure and 6x 8+2 NL-SAS volume groups per IOM expansion tray for storage.