BeeGFS User Group

BUG 2025 ST. LOUIS

November 17th

Location: 612North Events

We are thrilled to announce that the BeeGFS User Group – BUG is coming to St. Louis on Monday November 17th.

BUG brings together the BeeGFS Community, partners, customers, and key speakers from ThinkParQ alongside BeeGFS users who will share their experience. Our Engineering team will offer detailed insights into our roadmap, including the latest advancements in monitoring tools, and important updates on our products and services. Join BeeGFS in St. Louis!

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Agenda

BUG will start at 8:30 AM with registrations and breakfast.

The sessions will run from 9:15 AM to 1:00 PM, with a short coffee break in between.

We’ll wrap up the event with an interactive Q&A session and a light lunch.

You can click on each session title to open a short description and learn more about what the session is about.

State of the Swarm

The day will kick off with a look at where BeeGFS and ThinkParQ are headed. Learn how our team is growing with the launch of ThinkParQ Inc in the USA providing support and services during US business hours, along with a new 24/7 support option. We’ll also highlight some of our key partnerships and community initiatives.

Sunsetting BeeGFS 7: What You Need to Know

As we approach the anniversary of BeeGFS 8, it’s time to start winding down support for BeeGFS 7. We’ll walk through the updated release and support process, and share what to expect for EOL planning going forward.

BeeGFS 8: Welcome to a New Era

We’ll recap the key features and changes introduced in BeeGFS 8.0 and 8.1 — including architectural updates, service improvements, and usability enhancements — to get everyone up to speed on the core of BeeGFS 8.

We’ll then briefly preview what’s landed in the releases since 8.1, before diving deeper into those new features in the following sections.

Entry Migrate: Work Smarter Not Harder

While BeeGFS 8 introduces powerful integrations with remote storage targets, we haven’t forgotten about managing data within BeeGFS itself.

The revamped entry migrate mode lets you select files for migration based on POSIX metadata — including modification time, user/group, size, and more — making it easier to automate cleanup and optimize storage target utilization.

Migration between storage targets or buddy groups is also faster and more flexible, thanks to integration with the new background rebalancing that now supports all entry types, including hard links and special files.

Got IPv6?

In case 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses aren’t enough, learn how we added support for IPv6 without breaking IPv4.

Security Roundup: ACLs, SELinux, and ID Mapping

From improved ACL performance to SELinux support and new ID mapping, we’ll look at new functionality designed to support secure multi-tenant environments

Remote Storage Targets: Ice Ice Data

Did you know you can use BeeGFS to offload your data to cold storage tiers like Amazon Glacier or on-premise tape archives? Yep, we got more chill than a polar bear in winter.

Oddballs and Outcasts: Fixes & features you (probably) forgot about

BeeGFS 8 isn’t just about new and shiny. With 8.0 out the door, we’ve finally had time to tackle those lower-priority bugs, edge cases, and knock out enhancement requests that never quite made it to the top of the backlog.

In this grab bag of fixes and features, we’ll highlight the oddballs, outcasts, and little things that now just work — and maybe, you never even noticed.

BeeGFS 8: What’s Cooking

A sneak peek at what we’re working on — and thinking about — for the rest of the BeeGFS 8 release series.

From in-progress features to experimental ideas, we’ll share what’s simmering. Order up!

Deep Dive: BeeGFS 8 Fundamentals

Walkthrough of the key differences between BeeGFS 7 and 8 — from config changes and logging to new TLS behavior and licensing.

This session will also compare using beegfs-ctl versus the newer beegfs tool for common file system management tasks, so you’ll know what to expect when you upgrade to BeeGFS 8.

We’ll be taking questions as we go, so feel free to chime in and make this session interactive!

Deep Dive: Managing Data with BeeGFS 8

Explore BeeGFS 8’s data management tools — including copy, index, pools, and remote — with a mix of slide-based walkthroughs and real-world examples.

See how to handle common workflows like tiering, backups, migrations, and policy-driven data movement using the latest features in BeeGFS 8.

We’ll be taking questions as we go, so feel free to chime in and make this session interactive!

BeeGFS on GitHub: Furthering Community Contributions

BeeGFS development has moved from GitLab to GitHub — and with BeeGFS 8, we’re opening up more of our repositories and workflow to the public.

We’ll share what’s changing, how to track development, and how the community can now contribute — from filing issues to submitting pull requests