LINBIT & OpenNebula TechDays: About Building IaaS Clouds
Open Source Block Storage for OpenNebula Clouds The LINBIT® OpenNebula TechDays was our mutual attempt to share our combined knowledge with the open source and storage community. We wanted to give you a thorough understanding of combining LINBIT’s software-defined storage solution with OpenNebula clouds. OpenNebula is a powerful, but easy-to-use, open source platform to build […]
Rancher’s K3s and LINBIT SDS
K3s is a very popular Kubernetes distribution from Rancher Labs designed to be both simple to set up and lightweight (in terms of system resources, not features). This makes it a great fit for edge computing, IoT (Internet of Things), and CI environments. LINBIT SDS for Kubernetes is LINBIT’s software suite for provisioning low overhead, […]
What are the benefits of running DRBD in Diskless mode?
Introduction As the developers of DRBD®, LINBIT® has led the way in high availability since 2001. DRBD has been included in the Linux kernel since version 2.6.33 (2009), has been deployed on all major Linux distributions, and is fully compatible with systems, applications, devices, and services. LINBIT specializes in block level replication, high availability, disaster […]
Automated Testing at LINBIT with Virter
My previous blog post described Virter, a tool for running virtual machines (VMs). This post will show how we use that to test our software at LINBIT®. Here we focus on our end-to-end tests. In tandem with Virter, we have another tool called vmshed. Think of it as a shed where VMs are kept. Or […]
