diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/beegfs/default.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/beegfs/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ce2fea69245..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/beegfs/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,167 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, unzip, which
-, libuuid, attr, xfsprogs, cppunit, rdma-core
-, zlib, openssl, sqlite, jre, openjdk, ant
-, openssh, perl, gfortran, influxdb, curl
-} :
-
-let
-  version = "7.0";
-
-  subdirs = [
-    "beeond_thirdparty/build"
-    "beeond_thirdparty_gpl/build"
-    "thirdparty/build"
-    "opentk_lib/build"
-    "common/build"
-    "admon/build"
-    "java_lib/build"
-    "ctl/build"
-    "fsck/build"
-    "helperd/build"
-    "meta/build"
-    "mgmtd/build"
-    "storage/build"
-    "utils/build"
-    "mon/build"
-    "upgrade/beegfs_mirror_md/build"
-  ];
-
-in stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  pname = "beegfs";
-  inherit version;
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://git.beegfs.com/pub/v7/repository/archive.tar.bz2?ref=${version}";
-    sha256 = "1wsljd5ybyhl94aqrdfvcs8a0l8w4pr0bs1vhjrf4y7ldhw35m3k";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ which unzip pkgconfig cppunit openjdk ant perl ];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    libuuid
-    attr
-    xfsprogs
-    zlib
-    openssl
-    sqlite
-    jre
-    rdma-core
-    openssh
-    gfortran
-    influxdb
-    curl
-  ];
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "format" ]; # required for building beeond
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    patchShebangs ./
-    find -type f -name Makefile -exec sed -i "s:/bin/bash:${stdenv.shell}:" \{} \;
-    find -type f -name Makefile -exec sed -i "s:/bin/true:true:" \{} \;
-    find -type f -name "*.mk" -exec sed -i "s:/bin/true:true:" \{} \;
-
-    # unpack manually and patch variable name
-    sed -i '/tar -C $(SOURCE_PATH) -xzf $(PCOPY_TAR)/d' beeond_thirdparty/build/Makefile
-    cd beeond_thirdparty/source
-    tar xf pcopy-0.96.tar.gz
-    sed -i 's/\([^_]\)rank/\1grank/' pcopy-0.96/src/pcp.cpp
-    cd ../..
-  '';
-
-  buildPhase = ''
-    for i in ${toString subdirs}; do
-      make -C $i BEEGFS_OPENTK_IBVERBS=1 ''${enableParallelBuilding:+-j''${NIX_BUILD_CORES} -l''${NIX_BUILD_CORES}}
-    done
-    make -C admon/build admon_gui BEEGFS_OPENTK_IBVERBS=1
-  '';
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    binDir=$out/bin
-    docDir=$out/share/doc/beegfs
-    includeDir=$out/include/beegfs
-    libDir=$out/lib
-    libDirPkg=$out/lib/beegfs
-
-    mkdir -p $binDir $libDir $libDirPkg $docDir $includeDir
-
-    cp admon/build/beegfs-admon $binDir
-    cp admon/build/dist/usr/bin/beegfs-admon-gui $binDir
-    cp admon_gui/dist/beegfs-admon-gui.jar $libDirPkg
-    cp admon/build/dist/etc/beegfs-admon.conf $docDir
-
-    cp java_lib/build/jbeegfs.jar $libDirPkg
-    cp java_lib/build/libjbeegfs.so $libDir
-
-    cp ctl/build/beegfs-ctl $binDir
-    cp fsck/build/beegfs-fsck $binDir
-
-    cp utils/scripts/beegfs-check-servers $binDir
-    cp utils/scripts/beegfs-df $binDir
-    cp utils/scripts/beegfs-net $binDir
-
-    cp helperd/build/beegfs-helperd $binDir
-    cp helperd/build/dist/etc/beegfs-helperd.conf $docDir
-
-    cp client_module/build/dist/sbin/beegfs-setup-client $binDir
-    cp client_module/build/dist/etc/beegfs-client.conf $docDir
-
-    cp meta/build/beegfs-meta $binDir
-    cp meta/build/dist/sbin/beegfs-setup-meta $binDir
-    cp meta/build/dist/etc/beegfs-meta.conf $docDir
-
-    cp mgmtd/build/beegfs-mgmtd $binDir
-    cp mgmtd/build/dist/sbin/beegfs-setup-mgmtd $binDir
-    cp mgmtd/build/dist/etc/beegfs-mgmtd.conf $docDir
-
-    cp storage/build/beegfs-storage $binDir
-    cp storage/build/dist/sbin/beegfs-setup-storage $binDir
-    cp storage/build/dist/etc/beegfs-storage.conf $docDir
-
-    cp opentk_lib/build/libbeegfs-opentk.so $libDir
-
-    cp upgrade/beegfs_mirror_md/build/beegfs-mirror-md $binDir
-
-    cp client_devel/build/dist/usr/share/doc/beegfs-client-devel/examples/* $docDir
-    cp -r client_devel/include/* $includeDir
-
-    cp beeond_thirdparty_gpl/build/parallel $out/bin
-    cp beeond_thirdparty/build/pcopy/p* $out/bin
-    cp beeond_thirdparty/build/pcopy/s* $out/bin
-    cp -r beeond/scripts/* $out
-    cp beeond/source/* $out/bin
-  '';
-
-  postFixup = ''
-    substituteInPlace $out/bin/beegfs-admon-gui \
-      --replace " java " " ${jre}/bin/java " \
-      --replace "/opt/beegfs/beegfs-admon-gui/beegfs-admon-gui.jar" \
-                "$libDirPkg/beegfs-admon-gui.jar"
-
-    substituteInPlace $out/bin/beeond \
-      --replace /opt/beegfs/sbin "$out/bin"
-  '';
-
-  doCheck = true;
-
-  checkPhase = ''
-    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:`pwd`/opentk_lib/build/ \
-      common/build/test-runner --text
-  '';
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "High performance distributed filesystem with RDMA support";
-    homepage = "https://www.beegfs.io";
-    platforms = [ "i686-linux" "x86_64-linux" ];
-    license = {
-      fullName = "BeeGFS_EULA";
-      url = "https://www.beegfs.io/docs/BeeGFS_EULA.txt";
-      free = false;
-    };
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ markuskowa ];
-    # 2019-08-09
-    # fails to build and had stability issues earlier
-    broken = true;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/beegfs/kernel-module.nix b/pkgs/os-specific/linux/beegfs/kernel-module.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 286252b927b1..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/os-specific/linux/beegfs/kernel-module.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, which
-, kmod, kernel
-} :
-
-let
-  version = "7.0";
-in stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "beegfs-module-${version}-${kernel.version}";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "https://git.beegfs.com/pub/v7/repository/archive.tar.bz2?ref=${version}";
-    sha256 = "1wsljd5ybyhl94aqrdfvcs8a0l8w4pr0bs1vhjrf4y7ldhw35m3k";
-  };
-
-  hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" "pic" "stackprotector" ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ which kmod ];
-
-  buildInputs = kernel.moduleBuildDependencies;
-
-  makeFlags = [ "KDIR=${kernel.dev}/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/build/" ];
-
-  postPatch = ''
-    patchShebangs ./
-    find -type f -name Makefile -exec sed -i "s:/bin/bash:${stdenv.shell}:" \{} \;
-    find -type f -name Makefile -exec sed -i "s:/bin/true:true:" \{} \;
-    find -type f -name "*.mk" -exec sed -i "s:/bin/true:true:" \{} \;
-  '';
-
-  preBuild = "cd client_module/build";
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    instdir=$out/lib/modules/${kernel.modDirVersion}/extras/fs/beegfs
-    mkdir -p $instdir
-    cp beegfs.ko $instdir
-  '';
-
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-    description = "High performance distributed filesystem with RDMA support";
-    homepage = "https://www.beegfs.io";
-    platforms = [ "i686-linux" "x86_64-linux" ];
-    license = licenses.gpl2;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ markuskowa ];
-    broken = stdenv.lib.versionAtLeast kernel.version "4.18";
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 238f7b947720..8bc18fc4661b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   at_spi2_core = at-spi2-core; # added 2018-02-25
   bar-xft = lemonbar-xft;  # added 2015-01-16
   bashCompletion = bash-completion; # Added 2016-09-28
+  beegfs = throw "beegfs has been removed."; # added 2019-11-24
   bridge_utils = bridge-utils;  # added 2015-02-20
   bro = zeek; # added 2019-09-29
   btrfsProgs = btrfs-progs; # added 2016-01-03
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index a738cd4bf418..020e71e63d1a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2164,8 +2164,6 @@ in
 
   beanstalkd = callPackage ../servers/beanstalkd { };
 
-  beegfs = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/beegfs { };
-
   beets = callPackage ../tools/audio/beets {
     pythonPackages = python3Packages;
   };
@@ -16277,8 +16275,6 @@ in
 
     bbswitch = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/bbswitch {};
 
-    beegfs-module = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/beegfs/kernel-module.nix { };
-
     ati_drivers_x11 = callPackage ../os-specific/linux/ati-drivers { };
 
     chipsec = callPackage ../tools/security/chipsec {