Software-Defined Storage Solves High-Availability & Disaster Recovery Problems
Software-defined storage (SDS) is a technology used in data storage management that intentionally divides storage duties of software and hardware1. Software is responsible for: Provisioning capacity Protecting data Controlling data placement Physical hardware is where the actual data (the 0s and 1s) is2 stored. SDS allows the storage hardware to be replaced, updated, and extended without […]
Using Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) with DRBD on RHEL 9 Tech Guide
The purpose of this guide is to provide installation and configuration instructions for implementing Red Hat’s Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) and LINBIT®’s DRBD®. VDO is a virtual block device driver that provides inline deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning for block storage in Linux. VDO operates within the Linux kernel and is managed by LVM. DRBD […]
Highly Available NVMe-oF on RHEL 9 Tech Guide
The Highly Available NVMe-oF on RHEL 9 tech guide will instruct the reader on how to configure a Highly Available (HA) NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) cluster using DRBD® 9 from LINBIT® and the Pacemaker cluster stack on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9. NVMe-oF is the concept of connecting to a remote NVM Express […]
