LINBIT Content & Software Updates
These days, I have been staying busy preparing for my presentation at STAC Research in London on May 4th. On the same day, Rene will speak at the CloudStack European User Group meeting. Yes, that is Star Wars day! May the 4th be with you. Content In the last couple of newsletters, I have shared information regarding our recent […]
Deploy a Highly Available MariaDB Service Using LINSTOR & DRBD Reactor Tech Guide
You can quickly and easily deploy a high-availability (HA) MariaDB service by using LINBIT SDS components and DRBD Reactor as a cluster manager. Making your database service highly available, especially if it’s the back-end service to a crucial application or other service, can help keep your customers or coworkers who depend on it up and […]
Kubernetes High Availability for Stateful Workloads
LINBIT® is a company with deep roots in Linux High Availability (HA). Because of this, LINBIT has some opinions on what HA is, and how it can be achieved. Kubernetes’ approach to HA generally involves sprawling many replicas of an application across many cluster nodes, therefore making it less impactful when a single node or application […]
Highly Available KVM Virtualization Using DRBD & Pacemaker Tech Guide
One of the many use cases for DRBD® replication technology is to replicate a device that backs a storage volume that is in a backing storage role for a KVM virtual machine (VM) image. You can use this replication strategy, with Pacemaker configured as the cluster manager, to create a high-availability (HA) KVM virtualization solution. […]
Open Source Workload Orchestrators
LINBIT® SDS is available for Kubernetes (and OpenShift), Apache CloudStack, Open Stack, OpenNebula, XCP-ng, and Proxmox. When I think of a name for these, I always return to ‘Open source workload orchestrators.’ So far, there is one name missing from that list: oVirt. oVirt is the Open Source upstream for Oracle Virtualization Manager and Red Hat […]
Breaking Our IOPS Record: What LINBIT’s Success Means For Our Clients
We recently shared the exciting performance results from our recent collaboration with Ampere. You can view our recent blog post that published the outcome of Ampere’s Altra® Max Platform using LINBIT SDS® to manage and replicate some ultra-high-speed Samsung PM1733a SSD drives. You can also see our Tech Guide: Benchmarking On Ampere Altra Max Platform […]
