How to install BeeGFS on Demand (beeond) on Bright Cluster?

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The following steps are tested on Bright 8.2 with CentOS7:

1. Enable Repositorry:

cat /etc/yum.repos.d/beegfs-rhel7.repo
[beegfs]
name=BeeGFS 7_1_3 (rhel7)
# If you have an active BeeGFS support contract, use the alternative URL below
# to retrieve early updates. Replace username/password with your account for
# the BeeGFS customer login area.
#baseurl=https://username:password@www.beegfs.io/login/release/beegfs_7_1/dists/rhel711
baseurl=https://www.beegfs.io/release/beegfs_7_1/dists/rhel714
gpgkey=https://www.beegfs.io/release/beegfs_7_1/gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-beegfs20
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

2. Install beeond package

yum install beeond

3. add partitions to the disksetup:

   <partition id="a3">
     <size>200G</size>
     <type>linux</type>
     <filesystem>ext4</filesystem>
     <mountPoint>/cachefs</mountPoint>
     <mountOptions>defaults,noatime,nodiratime</mountOptions>
   </partition>
[...]
   <partition id="a7">
     <size>max</size>
     <type>linux</type>
     <filesystem>ext4</filesystem>
     <mountPoint>/mnt/beeond</mountPoint>
     <mountOptions>defaults,noatime,nodiratime</mountOptions>
   </partition>