What’s the Difference Between Off-Site Data Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR)?
Many businesses make the mistake of confusing “Disaster Recovery” (DR) with “off-site data backup.” Confusing the two may lead to paying a high price in the form of data loss and downtime when a disaster hits. Off-site backups are a necessary part of business continuity in the face of disaster for nearly any organization, but […]
Multi-AZ Replication Using Automatic Placement Rules in LINSTOR
Multi-AZ Replication Are you looking to leverage multiple availability zones in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure? LINSTOR® can easily manage your block storage and automatically replicate your data between availability zones (AZs). This post explores multi-AZ replication using automatic placement rules in LINSTOR. This blog post illustrates the advantages of using LINSTOR’s lesser-known […]
Benchmarking DRBD
We often see people on #drbd or on drbd-user trying to measure the performance of their setup. Here are a few best practices to do this. First, a few facts. What you want to do: Some problems we’ve seen: If you’re doing all that correctly, and are using a recent DRBD version, for a pure random-write […]
